Thermwood / eCabinet Systems

ALWAYS on weekends and ALWAYS when you have a deadline to meet. I got so frustrated I just shut it down and will go back at it tomorrow afternoon. I know we can make the adjustment but actually have 2 questions: 1) Don't we actually have to make 1/2 of the .125 adjustment?? Just checking my thinking...

We successfully were cutting flip operations a couple days ago. Then have been running a series of jobs without flip ops. Now back to flip op job and the X axis is off and flip ops are coming out wrong. See pictures. Y axis appears to be correct. You can see the dado is too long on one side leaving ...

I am needing to make a lid that lays in the top. I can do it on eCabs and it does cut it but it does not clean up the edges so that the lid fits. I created a pocket over the cutout with a different radius corner so it has a catch. I have emailed Thermwood but thought this might get me a quicker answ...

Thanks, Brad.
On TW On-line Store they have In-Groove insert engraving system in the sign making section. Does this work to do marquetry, inlays, veneers, etc.?

Since Shop Bot can do this, can our CS40 do this? Donek Drag Knife to cut veneer. What do we need to do to use this on our machine? New software?
If interested, here is the YouTube video link for how to program it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNMvzJu9VO8
http://donektools.com
Thanks!

Thanks Daniel and Scott. I think I am going to go to MasterCam. Giving up on eCabs for this one. We even tried faking the computer into thinking the 45 degree cutter was a dao tool with 0.010 diameter and creating a pocket on edge with 0.010. No go.

We have a series of parts that have mitered edges and we build them that way on eCabs and then the program wants to build a "Cutting Solution" to make the 45 degree edge by taking a small diameter bit and multiple passes stepping up and over and forming the edge. It is slow but it works wi...

Ian, we see this from time to time. Biggest reason we can find is that the operator gets sawdust between the waste board and spoil board and then when we flycut, it makes the top board too thin, then we clean out the dust and now the sheet is low on the edge. Other cause can be if the table doesn't ...

We use exterior house paint on the edges of our spoil and waste boards. Works well for us plus is easily machined if we resize/flycut the board.

Back running again after home machine and then jump ahead to sheet 7 and recutting that sheet. On sheet 8 now and running OK. Any ideas why this happened?

The message has now changed to "the plc program in the control did not respond to the tool change request!!! Push E-stop, then NC-reset twice and home machine. If that does not help, contac tThermwood Tech Services."
Here goes nothing!

I am 7 sheets into a job and I jsut got this error message. It is in the middle of a tool change and the head is straight up from the last operation and is calling for tool change. But I am DOWN right now and cannot clear this error. I looked at the forum and it said it was a non-closed comment but ...

Kerry, if this is a true arc, you can certainly find the panel size if you know the chord length and the rise. From those two you can find the radius, then the circumference, then you can determine the % of the circumference you are using and get the length of the panel. But I maybe don't fully unde...

We are doing a bar area for a HUGE Notre Dame fan/alum/.... Does anybody know where there might be ND stuff to include in the bar design? We can get decals and stuff from ND fan page, etc but wondering if anybody knows or makes or wants to make the ND mascot as a corbel for holding up the bar overha...

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Josh, 100% agree with annoying!
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