Gable Box Template to Print, Cut and Fold

Measure what goes inside: its length, its width and how tall it stands. Those are the gable box template’s inside length, width and height to the eave, the line where the roof begins. The roof and the handle rise above it, so a 6 × 4 × 4 in box stands about 7 1/2 in to the top of its handle.

The table lists every ready size with its height to the handle’s top and its flat sheet. For a size of your own, type it in inches or millimeters and the free gable box template draws the box from there.

Score every dashed fold with a bone folder or an empty ballpoint pen against a ruler, then fold the walls into a tube and glue the side flap inside the far wall. Close the bottom you chose: with the auto lock bottom glue the two hatched triangles to their side flaps, and the bottom forms each time the tube opens.

Fill the box, fold the two roof slopes over and stand the handle panels up back to back. Bend each gable out a little at its fold and push the two ears through its slot. The template gable box holds shut with no glue, and it opens again the same way.

A gable box is a tube of four walls with a roof on top. The back and the front each carry a roof slope and a handle panel; the two sides carry the gables, the triangles that close the ends under the roof. A glue flap on the back closes the tube, and the bottom flaps close the floor.

The gables stay in the side walls’ plane and their slopes sit two boards under the roof, so the roof rests on them. At each gable’s peak a narrow tower holds the slot for the handle panels’ ears.

The auto lock bottom is the quickest to use: once its two triangles are glued, the box opens with its bottom already closed, and it holds the most weight. The 1-2-3 bottom needs no glue on the bottom at all and folds in three steps. The tuck bottom is the simplest to cut by hand and opens from below.

All three come in the same gable box template, and the Math tab shows every flap size: the auto lock flaps are half the box’s width, the 1-2-3 flaps shares of it as common dielines draw them, and the tuck bottom’s closure is the width less 1.5 mm plus a board.

A gable box is carried by its handle, so the board decides how much it holds. On 18 pt SBS a gable box template makes a box for up to about 2 lb; on 24 pt with a rounded handle hole, about 3 lb. Heavier goods take a sturdier box.

The handle hole is 0.4 of the box’s length, at least 3 in so a hand fits, and at most the length less 1 in. On a short box the hole is narrower and two or three fingers carry it; the Checks tab says so.

The print shop PDF has a 1/8 in (3.175 mm) bleed following every cut line, a safe area, the glue areas free of ink, spot colors set to overprint and a notes page with the sizes. The gable box template also downloads as an SVG for a cutting machine, with named cut and score lines, as a DXF and as a PNG.

The print PDF is for a home printer at actual size, with the folding steps in front. The mini box prints whole on Letter or A4; the 4 × 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 and 3 × 3 × 3 in boxes print whole on 11 × 17 in or A3, and larger boxes are split over pages to tape together.

Yes. Every size, every bottom and every file is a free gable box template, with no signup and no watermark. Save the box in this browser, in a project file or in a free account, and come back to change it.

For other shapes, the dieline generator draws tuck end boxes, boxes with lids, mailer boxes and bags, the gift box template sizes boxes by the gift, and all box templates are in one library.

After a download, Design with AI opens AI packaging design in Auto mode: describe the colors, the pattern and the words, then place the result on the walls, the roof or the handle panels in the Design section.

You pay only for the designs you receive. For a logo, a name or a label, the Design section adds them right on this gable box template, panel by panel.