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4:12 PM, Wednesday September 21st 2022

Excellent improvement over the course of the 250 boxes! I'm working on that now.

One thing I've started doing to align stuff (which you might already be doing) is to use your pen to eyeball angles. I hold it right on the page and use it as a visual straightedge, sliding it around to estimate convergences of future lines. Then I pick it up and do the line.

On the back corner, I try to figure out how the longest line will align first, then find the point along it that works best for the two shorter ones. Then I place a dot and check all three lines before drawing them. (Sometimes it takes a few dots.)

3:53 PM, Thursday September 22nd 2022

Thanks for the advice,I really appreciate it!

I have tried using my pen to eyeball the angles it definitely is useful. Your advice on that back corner is really helpful! I'm gonna give it a go on the some more boxes for practice. I really struggled with it so I'm eager to give your advice a try! Thanks again!

4:14 PM, Thursday September 22nd 2022

Either the longest line, or the line that is going to be closest to one of the original "y" lines.

You know how sometimes you can see that one of the back lines is going to practically overlap with a front line? If that happens, you can just travel up and down it, keeping roughly parallel to that original "y", looking for the best spot that the other two back lines to intersect. Way easier than trying to simultaneously figure out all 3.

11:31 AM, Monday September 26th 2022

That makes sense to me, I never knew boxes would hold so many secrets. Thanks again for sharing your advice, I appreciate it, definitely gonna keep them in mind.

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