Thermwood / eCabinet Systems

Tony,

If you take the cab into cab editor you can choose group parts and select the parts. If you want drawer grain vertical you will have to add this way so you can group lets say 3 fronts on a sink base. Hope this helps.

Forrest

Roger,

If there all the same size blanks then make a cradle on a large backplate/wasteboard and you can even screw some hold down blocks that project out over the workpiece. When the part is cut twist the blocks out of the way and load the next.

Forrest

Guy's

I don't use ecabs to do my mdf doors but I would think you can acheive this with a cab that has all the parts deleted. Thats the way I do my drawers. Then add and change size accordingly in batch.

Forrest

Hey Mark, As Mike stated leave your sides 90degree and keep your side depth consistant with the depth of cabs to the left and right unless your doing offset. If you use a 3/4\" side you will not have to use any spacer filler to left and right for door clearance. Back to the first post you will ...

Dave,

You don't have to do it this way and oin the futher they will allow both options. For now just make you cab depth minus the thickness of the sides.

Forrest

Dan,

In rolling nest you can control this with the radius crunch setting. I set mine at .08 for baltic plywood.

Forrest

Mark, I forgot to address one other thing you mentioned. You should maybe once a week take the tools out and blow out the collet and reset. Over time these tools can loosen if left to long. The wrench is just like what you buy for auto use but has the special end on it. Its a little pricey but will ...

Marius and Mark, You are burning your bits up. I don't use 1/2\" for much but when I cut with a 3/8\" 2flute comp. on melamine I run 18000rpm at 750 ipm. Try slowing your rpm first to about 15000. I get on average 80 to 100 sheets if I only cut melamine but I did on one occasion get 215 sh...

Mark, I don't know if this is an excepted practice but I've had my collets for 4 years now and do not have that problem. The one thing we did a few years ago was buy a torque wrench for the collets and that has improved the thread life. The tool is about $300 and well worth it. This may help your pr...

Steve, I left you a phone message, did you get it? One way that you can print and control the size is to change the button on the tool bar from job to veiw and zoom and position the sheet then go to file/preveiw and make sure its in the right place. I also will print landscape to get the biggest vei...

Hey Mike, Just keep a look out for the depth issue on dovetails. The spoilboard and new switchspoil seemed to fix my problem but I'm still not sure what caused it. The odd thing is cab parts seemed to cut fine. If you notice on the first piece it cut thru the skin then you need to stop or you'll sta...

Mark, For whatever reason after we flycut and changed the switchspoil our parts are coming out good. The problem on my end seemed to arise after upgrading to 5.12 control nest but I can't narrow down if that is the culprite. Your parts are probably moving because the skin is being cut thru on the fi...

Mark,

I think that the line is worse on mdf because the material is more dense. It will pull the bit into the material more when ran conv. direction.

Forrest

Mark,

And I thought it was just me. I hope this gets fixed soon.

Forrest

Leo, Your toe kick does not need to be a display panel. Add the toe back and give it the front inset you need. Then make the height .001 and change the deck inset to the height you want the toe and the toe will follow it. It will then resize with the cab. This way you can add construction jointery a...