Thermwood / eCabinet Systems

Chris, buy THM desktop for your computer and you will never look back. I think its $1k to start with and $200 a year renewal. I would assume you have a fairly robust computer for running ecabs or other design software so not only will it free up your router to just run code but control nest will pro...

Tim, until then you can make a RTA hole pattern that is just a slot and apply it. It will cut it as a dado.

Forrest

The spacers I used have a wide base that allows for an extra wood screw to be placed in the top and bottom of it. The main screw gets it lined up and the others are for reinforcement. I'll see if I can find any and post a pic.

Forrest

Stuart, they do make some plastic blocks that have a hole in the center allowing for a 5mm screw to go all the way thru. This will allow you to use the same pattern as all the rest. The other thing you could do is create a pattern with the extra holes needed for the blocks and let it apply to both s...

Scratch that, it doesn't work.

Forrest

You can do this with an rta joint that has 5 holes instead of 1.

Forrest

You will have to do it as a part edit and then constrain them in Constraint manager.

Forrest

I was wondering if anyone was running 10. I'm going to wait for the official roll out which I think is end of July.

Forrest

Mike, it looks like "inventor for wood" is very similar to "topsolid for wood". Have you been quoted on it yet?

Forrest

Thanks Michael, will look into it myself. I would like to find a 3D modeling program to build my mdf door library in. I'm currently using CV and would like to dump the program.

Forrest

I looked at Topsolid at the last IWF. They have a woodworking module that is one of the coolest programs I've seen in a long time. Basically its a 3D modeling program with industry specific features like custom joinery. The cam side is built in. I don't have any idea as to cost but its worth a look ...

Michael, I have a friend that uses Inventor and seems to like it but doesn't cam or link to the machine with it. He sends me the files and I use solidworks and Bobcam for SWs to cam and send to machine. Solidworks is a very good program and I was able to learn it in a very short time. The Bobcam plu...

Hey Jeremy, in the meantime you can just put a number on your sheets in the order you added them. That's what I do.

Forrest

Bryan, it looks like things have been upgraded at some point as the 91000 controller didn't come out until early 2000's. It would be interesting to see if it has a belt driven spindle or direct drive. I don't think the belt drive units had auto tool change capabilities. At first glance I believe it ...

I have 1 customer that for the sake of monkey proofing we place all the drawer boxes the same distance from the bottom of the front. In this particular case it is .75" taking into account that the bottom front will overhang the deck about .625" giving the drawer box about .125" undern...