??? Error

[John Powell]

Hi everyone and a happy new year from Australia.
Hope someone can help. When i take a part to the part editor
I get an error window saying" Error in convert body to sheet body".
I cannot cut out a pocket in the panel. Also i tried to put aprofile
around the edges of a display panel and ecabs just closed down on me.
Hope someone can help.
Thanks John.

[Kerry Fullington]

John,

I don't know that this will help but open your cabinet in the Cabinet Editor
Double clock the cabinet to select it
Right click and choose
Remove Part Editor cuts
Then From Entire Cabinet

This will re-generate the cabinet and then it might work.

You will lose any part editor cuts you have already made so you might want to save it under another name for this experiment.

[John Powell]

Thanks Kerry. Ive re started ecabs today the error box doesnt come up now and
i have been able to cut into a part. Still having problems trying to profile edges.
All i am trying to do is make a simple box, front,back,two ends and a top with all
joining edges mitred. All 18mm mdf with a 9mm mdf bottom rebated into the bottom edges
of the box. When I try to cut the mitres along the edges ecabs lets me do a couple
then i try another and the program just closes down on me. This is so frustrating
i could have made the box by now. This type of mitred construction is required
for a major part of the work i am bidding for from a major local designer.
This could mean a lot of work for me. HELP.
Thanks John.

[Scott G Vaal]

John,

Please send us the cabinet and the tool you are using along with the steps that you are taking to get it to crash.

[John Powell]

At the risk of sounding stupid could you talk me through
how to send the cabinet and tool. Thanks.

[Scott G Vaal]

John,

No problem...

The cabinet file is a .hsf file. You will find this in your user data path, then the cabinets directory. If you used the default, then it will be located at:
For XP: c:\documents and settings\all users\(shared)documents\thermwood\ecabinet systems
for Vista/Win7: c:\users\public\(public)documents\thermwood\ecabinet systems

To upload the file here on the forum, click on the upload attachment tab just below the Save, Preview, and Submit buttons. Then, select Browse, navigate to the location of your cabinet .hsf file, then select Open, then select Add the file. repeat the process for the next file.

The tool file will be a .tol extension. If this file is one of the standards that came with eCabSys, just let me know the one you used. If not you will have to attach it here for us. This file is also normally located at the user data path location, then the My Profile Tools directory. I cannot remember if this forum will support the .tol file extension for attachment or not. If it complains about the .tol extension, you will need to zip the file then attach it.

[John Powell]

big 45deg cham.x_t.tol

(2.95 KiB) Downloaded 265 times

18mm mdf console box.hsf

(556.02 KiB) Downloaded 253 times

OK try this. The 45 deg chamfer tool is one i made myself and have used this before on other cabinets so
I dont think the tool is the problem.
Take the right hand end of the cabinet to the part editor and profile the back edge with the 45deg tool.
then the same with the left hand end. I have already done this with the top and the deck also the back.
This took to long as i had to save the whole cabinet after each profile incase it crashed. The program
seemed to crash during the profiling stage someware between viewing the tool, setting the -18mm
plunge deapth and returning to the main screen.

[Scott G Vaal]

John,

I cannot get it to crash for me. I have added each cut and no problems. I even removed all part editor cuts, then and added them all back on. I then took your cabinet and tool to our weaker stats old XP machine that resembles a few of our other customers PCs and it worked for me there too. What is your PC brand and specs? Also what graphics card make and model do you have?

As a time saver note (and if you actually were to cut it at a machine it would be more ideal), you can do your profile cuts as a chain for the back of the cabinet and a partial chain for the left & right ends, top, and deck and only have to choose your tool one time per part. The partial chain works by picking the 1st entity that you want in the chain (click on it closer to the start point of the entity, or at least beyond the mid point of the entity towards the start point) and then picking the last entity that you want. It will then select all the entities between those for you. Then select Next, pick the tool, then you will have all 3 edges profiled at once (or all 4 in the case of the full chain on the back). You may want to see if you can do it in this fashion without the crash happening. I would be curious what would happen. I will attach your cabinet that I did using the chain and partial chain method for you to use or review.

[John Powell]

Hi Scott. Thanks for your reply.
MY p.c. is a Dell Dimention DV051
INTEL (R) PENTIUM (R) 4 CPU. 3.00 Ghz
2.99Ghz, 504 MB of RAM
Windows XP home. Version 2002
Service Pack 3
Intel (R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family.
I am thinking of an up grade very soon. Would be very greatful for
any advice on specs. I would like a good laptop So as to be mobile.
Has anyone used a MAC Book Pro with Ecabs?

[Scott G Vaal]

John,

You can go to our website and view our recommended systems to get a good starting point for your PC purchase. Here is a direct link to the page:
http://www.ecabinetsystems.com/ecabinet ... system.htm
As far as a MAC, I can only tell you that some people are using them with virtualization software such as Parallels and having success.

Did you have any luck creating the profile cuts as I mentioned?

[John Powell]

Yes thanks Scott, got there in the end.