How do I make a hexagonal box?

Set the number of sides to six and the side length to the length of one edge of the hexagon. For a hexagon, the width across opposite corners is twice the side length.

How does the bottom close?

Each wall panel has a flap. Fold them all inwards, glue them to one another, then glue the base disc on top for a clean finish.

How do I get a box with no lid?

Set the lid height to zero and you get the wall strip and base only.

Polygonal Box Template — Free Hexagon & Octagon Box

The polygonal box template, flat and folded

Polygonal box template — free printable dieline with cut and fold lines, any size — The printable dieline at its standard size. Type your own size above for yours.

Polygonal box folded up from the template — the finished box — The box it folds into.

What this template is for

Any box from a triangle to a twelve-sided one. Set the lid height to zero for an open tub, or give it a height for a hat-box style lid.

Also called hexagonal box · octagonal box · prismatic box · polygon box with lid — all the same shape, and this is it.

Hexagonal gift and favour boxes
Octagonal hat and cake boxes
Triangular and pentagonal packaging
Display boxes and centrepieces

How to use this template

All four downloads are the same polygonal box at the same size — only the format changes.

PDF printing at home: Print at 100 per cent, or hand it to a print shop as "actual size, no scaling".
PNG 300 dpi Canva, Photoshop, Procreate: Upload, lock it in place and design your polygonal box on top. Free plan and phone included. Full Canva walkthrough →
SVG Cricut, Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity: Vector, with cuts, folds and labels on separate layers. Cricut and Silhouette walkthrough →
DXF Silhouette, laser and vinyl cutters: Two layers, CUT and FOLD — and the one free Silhouette Studio Basic will open.

Getting it printed properly →

Printing it

Type your size above, then download the PDF.
Print at 100% — never “fit to page”, or every measurement comes out wrong.
Too big for the paper? Pick your paper size and leave Fit the pieces to the page ticked: each piece gets its own place on a sheet and the PDF comes out with every page in it, nothing cut in half and nothing to tape.

How to put it together

These pictures are the polygonal box itself, not a generic diagram — change the measurements above and the template changes, but the three steps never do.

Cut the solid lines
Every solid line is a cut. Do the inside shapes first, while the sheet is still whole and easy to hold.
Score every dashed line
Dashed lines are folds. Score each one first — an empty ballpoint against a ruler — or the card cracks along the outside of the bend.
Fold, glue and hold
Roll the wall strip up and glue the end tab inside the first panel. Fold the bottom flaps in and glue them to one another, then glue the base disc on top of them.

Glue: a glue stick for paper, white PVA on card — hold each seam thirty seconds, and let the box dry standing up.

Questions about the polygonal box

How do I make a hexagonal box?: Set the number of sides to six and the side length to the length of one edge of the hexagon. For a hexagon, the width across opposite corners is twice the side length.
How does the bottom close?: Each wall panel has a flap. Fold them all inwards, glue them to one another, then glue the base disc on top for a clean finish.
How do I get a box with no lid?: Set the lid height to zero and you get the wall strip and base only.

Print your own design on it

Add a logo, photo or pattern in the panel on the left and drag it onto the polygonal box. It is trimmed to the cut outline, embedded properly in the PDF, and never leaves your computer — most free template sites hand you the outline and stop there. How printing your own design works.

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Ready-made settings: Hexagon box with a lid

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