Thermwood / eCabinet Systems

If the Constraint Manager was to be use in this fashion. Lately I have been designing the top rails of my cabinets with designs to make them more appealing. Usually for open shelving and not cabinets with doors. But when I am designing them in the parts editor, in the beginning when I was new to eCa...

OK I messed around with it some and went back to my original formula with a modification to make it work. Instead of (h-7)/3 I made it into .333*(h-7) which shows up as .333(h-7) but still works the same as your h/3-2.33 which is much less intuitive. I think one of the problems I was having is that ...

Maybe this is one of the reasons I don't like the constraint manager :lol: Leo and I both were trying our best to constrain the WIDTH of the part to the WIDTH of the cabinet as one would look at the part ON the cabinet. That area could be a little more intuitive when it comes to the help for formul...

Here is the cabinet I'm trying to get to work in the constraints manager if anyone else wants to give it a shot.

DanEpps wrote:

Leo Graywacz wrote:They sure aren't acting like it.

Sure they were...the results were variable weren't they?

Sure if unpredictable and variable have the same meaning.

They sure aren't acting like it.

When you are using the terms W(idth) & H(eight) in the constraint manager are they variable terms with the data coming from the cabinet width and height input areas in the cabinet editor or are they a constant being derived when you make the formula in the constraint manager?

Here is what I'm talking about with the funky change. The constraint is w-1. Notice that the top arc disappeared and the constraint is at the bottom??? Wow, to think I might be able to teach a guru something. Dan, you need to trap the arcs within the constraint editor. You have to give them real nu...

Justin D Melhiser wrote:Send it to my email cabinets@thermwood.com and feel free to give me a call with any other questions at 1-800-533-6901 ext. 227

E-mail sent to you Justin, Thanks.

Never mind that Leo, further testing shows it doesn't work just right :oops: I'll see if I can come up with a set of constraints that will work for you. Been there, did that. I've spent quite a bit of time on this playing with formulas. The one that should work won't input properly. (w-7)/3 Thanks ...

I have a cabinet that I want to apply constraints to the top rail. What I have is a cabinet with three arches. I want the 3 arches to always be equal to each other. On the left and right there should be a flat area 1/2\" long before the arch starts, then in the middle (2 middles actually) I wan...

I figured that. When you are pricing individual cabinets that really boosts the price up quite a bit. The pricing on average will work pretty good when you have multiple cabinets spanning many sheets of ply. But when it comes to little jobs looks like it just better to use the design, nest, and cut ...

I did do it that way Dan. It said \"actual yield\" on the bottom but it still charges the full price for the sheetgoods. I was hoping that if I used 50% of a $60 piece of plywood it would calculate the price as $30. But that's not the way it works. If you can get it to do it this way maybe...

It sounds like you've got it. If you get any errors when trying to do the cutouts make sure you don't separate the display cube into 2 individual pieces. It won't let you do the cut. I had it happen in the corners. What I did was make a rectangle instead of a square to get rid of the extra little tr...

Make a display cube then put it into the parts editor. Then cut your squares into and cut them through. Go into the contour editor and make triangles on the corners of your cube to make it into a square (or rectangle) and go back into the parts editor. Right click the mouse and choose 'cut pocket us...