Thermwood / eCabinet Systems

I'd like to suggest taking it one step further. Well... perhaps more than one step. There are many times when the size (width, length, and material thickness) of one part determines the position, inset, offset, scribe, etc used in construction settings and other places in the program. Instead of onl...

PICNIC is good.

We used to call it CHATKIE.



CHAir To Keyboard Interface Error.

Regards,
Dave

Nick,
Another idea, perhaps much better if it works, with the job loaded in CN, try to \"Add sheet\" and change the added sheet's grain direction to \"Y\"

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Dave

Brain, Two possibilites come to mind. 1. You must \"Vectorize Text\" in Bobcad, to convert the text to lines/arcs before saving the DXF. The part editor only recognizes lines and arcs from the DXF file. 2. Be aware of the position of the converted text in relationship to 0,0. The part edit...

Nick, You can use a grained material, then in eCabinets, use the construction settings for the DBX to change the \"Grain direction angle\" to 90 for each part. The grain will appear to be running the wrong direction in eCabs, but since you're using a material with the grain running in the ...

Hi Patrick, Welcome aboard. Production sharing members have been providing machining services to shops of all sizes for about 5 years. I guess for cabinetmaking, that's pretty new, but for other industries; it would be a history lesson. Production sharing is an amazing business tool and integral par...

Start with the standard base frameless cabinet. Global change construction to blind dado Apply generic 1/8\" edgebanding to all Front edges. Save the cabinet. Add the cabinet to batch 3 times changing the width each time to 24\", 22\", and 21\" Save job CNC job and change the thi...

Hi Rob,
Norboard's aspen/birch core is more problematic than poplar core material (Columbia). We get good results with a new tool (one that has never touched PC or MDF) at 500IPM and 18000 RPM, conventional cut, but shorter tool life than normal.

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Dave

Love it! Huge help! Nice implementation!

Thanks.


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Dave

We frequently manually nest sheets using DXF files by drawing the sheet perimeter on the outline layer, and the part perimeters on a chain compout layer. Your outline tool will need to be set-up for rout/dado operations. You can supress the \"outline\" cut on the CN settings page. \"n...

Just another thought on the subject, that might be a little easier to implement. If the first pass of a double pass cut were performed outside the part perimeter by a user defined amount. (say .030\") and the second pass was performed on the line. This should eliminate the \"lip\" whe...

Thanks Jason,

That's above and beyond the call.

I'm up and running.

Regards,
Dave

Were the nesting errors resolved? How? I'm having the same errors.

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Dave

We cut blind dados on almost every job. We change material thickness when creating TWD files on almost every job. Success with blind dados requires careful control of fit and depth clearances, tool diameters, material thickness and waste board thickness. ... and even then, as Bill put it, you need t...

Both of these problems will happen if your \"part rotation step angle\" is set to something besides 90.

It's on the CN settings page.

Regards,
Dave