Welcome to BoxPacker’s documentation!

BoxPacker is an implementation of the “4D” bin packing/knapsack problem i.e. given a list of items, how many boxes do you need to fit them all in.

Especially useful for e.g. e-commerce contexts when you need to know box size/weight to calculate shipping costs, or even just want to know the right number of labels to print.

License

BoxPacker is licensed under the MIT license.

Warning

You are reading the documentation for BoxPacker v4 which is not yet released.

Contents

• Installation
• Principles of operation
• Getting started
• Rotation
• Sortation
• Weight distribution
• Too-large items
• Positional information
• Limited supply boxes
• Custom constraints
• Used / remaining space
• Permutations
• What’s new / Upgrading