Thermwood / eCabinet Systems

You can get a used M70 on Ebay for under 800 bucks. That was the recomended system two builds ago. Ecabinets hasn't changed enough to render that recomendation invalid with the current build.

Rick, Sometimes waiting it out will work. I have done all of the following with occasional success. Minimize Ecabs open another window (like my computer or Explorer) then expand the Ecabs window. If you can, click on the cabinet editor area. Sometimes it will abandon the save or nesting operation an...

My desktop does the green tracers also when placing cabinets. If you use the arrows it won't happen. I don't think that his laptop will accept a video card, but a quick call to Dell will confirm it. Have the service tag ready.

Mike

Brent,

The Mac Guru at the Apple Store told me that it only works with a retail copy of Windows. For some reason it will not load software that was OEM on another machine. He could be wrong, but he seamed pretty knowlageable on the subject.

Mike

The most importaint factor in pricing your work is your experience, which it sounds like you are short on. So you are in the same boat as most all of us were when we started. After you get a few of these jobs under your belt you will have enough information to make accurate bids. Untill then you wil...

Thanks guys, I don't have a Mac, but reciently started checking them out. The Mac Gurus at the Apple store were very helpfull. They said that running heavy CAD on Parallels would be a problem, but that using Bootcamp will make it as good as any native Bill machine. I grilled them for a hour about th...

Hello all, I know that this question has been kick around before, but the old threads are....old. I wonder if any of you has ran Ecabs using bootcamp on a high end Mac. I am thinking about getting a Macbook pro. It would be maxed out. I use a maxed out Dell M90 now and have no problems. I am thinkin...

George, I think the most importaint thing is that you DO NOT let any one else use the computer. You can get away with a less than ideal machine if there is no other crap running on it. That means NO peer to peer (music sharing stuff), NO instant messenger stuff, NO huge anti virus suite packages, No...

Great Michael, Thanks. I have found another posibility. If I choose an MDF door and choose my Chechen sheetstock I get a solid panel with no edge banding like I want. Also there is a grain direction option in the add drawer dialogue of the door editor. However Ecabs seems to tile the image on MDF do...

Michael, Thanks for looking at my delima. It looks like you rotated the Chechen grain in the jpeg, and rotated the whole image 90 degrees. My first attempt was done like that, But If the Jpeg image used for the sheet srock image has the grain running verticle it will make the drawer with the grain r...

Hello every one, I would like to thank yall for looking. I think my first post was confusing so here is a cabinet that is as close as I have come so far. The doors are correct. It is the drawer front that is wrong. I want the grain to be vertical, which I was able to do by rotating the image in Phot...

I am making doors and drawers from solid wood slabs with a dovetailed breadboard top of contrasting wood. Usually I have to model all the doors in the editor or an outside program, but this job is too complicated for that. Every door/drawer must be modeled separately that way with none of the automa...

Kyle, If the picture is taken from far away, like the mountain scene you showed, I make a wall about 2 feet taller than the interior walls and about 6 feet wider than the window. I place the wall about 3 feet from the window. This gives a very realistic effect. You have to either crop the picture or...

Al, I often create parts in another 3D package and save them as a .stl file. However I cannot open the .stl files directly from the cabinet editor. I first have to open them in the Display object editing area (I forget what it is called). From there I have to assign a surface texture or colour, beca...

Thanks Kerry, I dont know why that didn't show up in my searches.... I will switch tmy Ecabs computer to the AVG program and check it out. I don't worry so much about viruses on that computer because I only use it for business. For the poster. I imagine that you already know this, but I will say it ...