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DarrelMWood
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Arch/shell interior

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I have a customer who wants us to design a corner cabinet for her dining room. Real serious traditional style woman. Loves the \"shell\" style concave inside top. Trying to figure out a way to display that in ecabs (just for presentation, not to export to CNC or cut lists)......does anyone have any good ideas....I was thinking half a bowl display object could work, but haven't figured out how to get half a bowl? And then there's the issue of the illusion of the shell ribs, but I could probably take a .jpg into Photoshop to alter it if necessary.
Todd Miller

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If I could see some sample pictures, maybe I could give you some sort of starting point. Then we could go from there.....
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Post by Kerry Fullington »

Todd,
I think he is looking for a shell similar to the one over the display cabinet in this photo of a kitchen by Robert Williams.
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Post by Todd Miller »

Darrel,
This is the best I can do with what we have in the software..... I have tried chopping off the bottom of the display board, but Ecabs does not like that. So you will have to deal with the carving being inset from the bottom of the display board. I have attached a word doc that shows the procedure. Due to the Z scaling of the carving, the final product is choppy. Just keep your distance when rendering and you should be fine. Hopefully this helps. If anyone else knows of a better way, please post.

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I took a display board and applied an inset carving (rp-fi-pl0011).
Then, Rotated it 90 degrees.
Next, Scale the carving to the size required.
(NOTE: to get the correct depth, just scale the Z value.) If your cabinet is 12\" deep, your Z depth will need to be, say 11\". See image below.

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BTW.... Thanks for the pics Kerry!
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I was just not fast enough! :cry:
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Post by DarrelMWood »

Wow. Awesome......thanks guy....I just couldn't wrap my brain around how to even start it.....this is exactly what I wanted.
Todd, the bottom on the display board won't matter because she wants doors under the shell portion, so I'd need to put a mid-rail anyway.
Thanks again everyone---I haven't used the inset carving much, so I didn't even think do use that.
Todd Miller

Post by Todd Miller »

You may want to go to out website http://www.woodworkerswholesale.com to see if there are any more carvings like this to add to your library. All downloads for ecabs are free of charge.

Try this link...

http://www.woodworkerswholesale.com/Ins ... s/1015.htm
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Post by Michael Yeargain »

Kerry,

This guy Robert Williams, is he a cabinet maker? Is that a set he did? or is this just a picture of an old set of cabinets?

My personal color choices would have been different, but that is a gorgeous set of cabinets.

If this is a old world finish, I will show a few of the elite $ customers this cabinet set. I notice the extreme abuse (or appearance thereof) in the bar-back colloms. Very nice detail to the base board all the way around also...
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Post by Kerry Fullington »

Michael,
Robert is an eCabinets member. That picture was from his Post in the Customer Images forum.
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