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Newbie's first post---HELP!!!!?
Hi Guys;
I've been test driving this software for about a week now and I think I'm doing quite well but I have encountered a few difficulties. I'm trying to produce shop drawings for submission to the general contractor for a commercial contract. Cabinets are frameless melamine/ p-lam.
1- When I bring my layout of one wall of uppers to line dwg editor I can't make the floor disapear in the plan and top veiw. This makes it difficult to nest the veiws as the floor sticks out a mile. I've tried creating the room several different ways but the floor always sticks out past the walls.
2- I'm trying to creat a frameless base cabinet with 2 drawers across the top and 2 doors below. I use front and back top spreaders and one below the drawers. I use a partition between the two front spreaders stretching to the back of the cabinet. The program won't let me use a partition and if I use a stretcher it doesn't see it when I try to install drawers. How do I get around this?
3- Most shop drawings I have seen appear an the page sidways like conventional drawing sizes. I haven't been able to figure out how to do this. Can it be done?
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I've been test driving this software for about a week now and I think I'm doing quite well but I have encountered a few difficulties. I'm trying to produce shop drawings for submission to the general contractor for a commercial contract. Cabinets are frameless melamine/ p-lam.
1- When I bring my layout of one wall of uppers to line dwg editor I can't make the floor disapear in the plan and top veiw. This makes it difficult to nest the veiws as the floor sticks out a mile. I've tried creating the room several different ways but the floor always sticks out past the walls.
2- I'm trying to creat a frameless base cabinet with 2 drawers across the top and 2 doors below. I use front and back top spreaders and one below the drawers. I use a partition between the two front spreaders stretching to the back of the cabinet. The program won't let me use a partition and if I use a stretcher it doesn't see it when I try to install drawers. How do I get around this?
3- Most shop drawings I have seen appear an the page sidways like conventional drawing sizes. I haven't been able to figure out how to do this. Can it be done?
Thanks
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Wayne while in LDE, have you used the zoom feature by hight light a drag? That can eliminate a lot in the drawings, I attached a cab file for your review, you must use shelves to achieve this then partitions will work.
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Wayne,
You can do quite a lot for presentations to the prospective builders and homeowners alike. You can copy and paste the particular walls while in the LDE (Line Drawing Editor) with the same Windows shortcut keys. Simply click on the wall icon at the upper left and paste it onto another page or the same page if needed.
Also, once the room is complete you may try to lower the height of the walls. by going to the wall editor double clicking on the wall, clicking the 2 (two) nodes at the top of each wall and entering the numeric value of 1mm or 1/32 and the wall will only show as a thin line at the bottom of the page.
Another thing you can do is select the wall while in the LDE and hold the shift key and right mouse the wall into a mor favorable position on the page. See this example.
You can do quite a lot for presentations to the prospective builders and homeowners alike. You can copy and paste the particular walls while in the LDE (Line Drawing Editor) with the same Windows shortcut keys. Simply click on the wall icon at the upper left and paste it onto another page or the same page if needed.
Also, once the room is complete you may try to lower the height of the walls. by going to the wall editor double clicking on the wall, clicking the 2 (two) nodes at the top of each wall and entering the numeric value of 1mm or 1/32 and the wall will only show as a thin line at the bottom of the page.
Another thing you can do is select the wall while in the LDE and hold the shift key and right mouse the wall into a mor favorable position on the page. See this example.
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Hi Mike
That file is just what I needed. Thanks. I have altered it to my own specs but do I own the rights to any future cabinet designs derived from this as a seed or do I need to start from scratch?
Bryan
I've Set my printer default to landscape but my page still appears vertical (portrait). What am I doing wrong?
Michael
Your page is horizontal (landscape) how did you get there?
The problem in LDE is to display the top (plan) view. If you copy and paste that wall elevation and then tip it to a top veiw how much of the floor shows? When I do it the floor sticks way out and sometimes out front and back. If I bring it close to the elevation the floor overlaps and sometimes even hides part of the elevation veiw. Same thing if I create a side veiw or section by hiding parts. The floor in this case is only a line at the bottom and not much of a problem. I hope I explained myself.
Thanks again, Wayne
That file is just what I needed. Thanks. I have altered it to my own specs but do I own the rights to any future cabinet designs derived from this as a seed or do I need to start from scratch?
Bryan
I've Set my printer default to landscape but my page still appears vertical (portrait). What am I doing wrong?
Michael
Your page is horizontal (landscape) how did you get there?
The problem in LDE is to display the top (plan) view. If you copy and paste that wall elevation and then tip it to a top veiw how much of the floor shows? When I do it the floor sticks way out and sometimes out front and back. If I bring it close to the elevation the floor overlaps and sometimes even hides part of the elevation veiw. Same thing if I create a side veiw or section by hiding parts. The floor in this case is only a line at the bottom and not much of a problem. I hope I explained myself.
Thanks again, Wayne
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I think that is correct Waynewayne chater wrote:Hi Mike; Is it that simple? I thought I read somewhere that designs/files had a signature or somethingThanks,or is that just when you purchase a library?
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Dan's right, printer setup in software.
I knew what I wanted to say, but it didn't come out right, last time I tried to help I wrote an essay and, after looking at it, thought I would tone a reply down, guess a little to much
Maybe I'll get this forum thing right eventually.
Good luck on your eCab endeavors!
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Dan's right, printer setup in software.
I knew what I wanted to say, but it didn't come out right, last time I tried to help I wrote an essay and, after looking at it, thought I would tone a reply down, guess a little to much
Maybe I'll get this forum thing right eventually.
Good luck on your eCab endeavors!
Bryan
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Wayne
Kind of a hard way but you can create (add) a new sheet and the just copy and paste the indidual cabinets from the 1st sheet w/ the wall layout to the new sht. that way you don't show any walls or floors.
Just don't size any of them before you finish pasting (shift>left mouse)
I tried selecting more than one and they paste on top of each other, you can still relocate them one at a time (select \"cabinet\", shift>right mouse)
Bryan
Kind of a hard way but you can create (add) a new sheet and the just copy and paste the indidual cabinets from the 1st sheet w/ the wall layout to the new sht. that way you don't show any walls or floors.
Just don't size any of them before you finish pasting (shift>left mouse)
I tried selecting more than one and they paste on top of each other, you can still relocate them one at a time (select \"cabinet\", shift>right mouse)
Bryan