Thermwood / eCabinet Systems

We are making two 5.5\" x 4.5\" ovals that will terminate a handrail into a wall. We are profiling it using roundnose cutters and have tested our program out on MDF. Now comes the fun part. We went to cut the first piece out of oak and it threw the part. Questions: 1) How deep should we li...

That worked like a champ. Thanks, guys

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

After the tool change, you will need an X and Y movement without the Z to the 1st point in your program. It would be better to have this in Absolute. What is an X and Y movement without the Z? Is it just any movement in the X and/or (please tell me if it is AND or OR or if it doesn't matter) Y dire...

When running in absolute mode and the program calls for a tool change, should the router, return to its last position or does it continue from wherever the tool change was made? I was using a fixture offset and working in a small quadrant of the table. The program called for a tool change followed b...

Jody,

Thanks a million. I feel a lot more confident as I approach this program.

Regards,
Bill

I am a little rusty at programming and I would like to run a few things by the forum before I drive a bit through the table. :shock: I am trying to make two oval blocks with a profile out of soft maple. I will test this on MDF first, but I would like some validation of my set up. After placing my ma...

I just checked the test box that I ran. For the ZSHIFT values it had the same values I keyed into change the thickness. I went back and checked the job that I ran on Saturday and all the 3/4\" pieces had a ZSHIFT of 0.75 and all the 1/2\" pieces had a ZSHIFT value of 0.5, this is despite h...

Back to head scratching time. :? I just created a test cabinet 3/4\" sides, deck and top, 1/2\" back. It is basically an 18\" cube without a front. My hypothesis was that this would have the top slightly down from the sides and the deck slightly up from the sides. I would then roll ba...

1. Make sure that you have the correct diameter set in the tool manager of the tooling being used in your application. Our tooling has basically remained the same before and after the problem. One tool was changed, but I just remeasured both and the difference is 0.004 inches. Not enough to make a ...

Jeff, I was previously on 4.57 and everything worked fine. I reported a problem I had when I added a sheet that measured 1/2\" wider than the material in the database. I think it shifts the X and Y axis off of the database values rather than the added sheet dimensions. The net of it was the rou...

I may be experiencing a similar problem. We are using blind dado construction and up until recently all of our joints were dead on. We ran, what was for us, a big job on Saturday and it seems that our tops are down 1/16\". Before running the job I mic'd a couple of sheets and changed the dimens...

Dave, As always, good insights. I'm pretty sure the issue is not with the drawer bottom (cabinet back) because we have successfully cut that before. It was actually cutting that box that my cabinet guy came and asked if he could push the envelope by asking to notch and drill the back. I don't have t...

We were trying to cut some drawer boxes that are notched in the back and also have a 1/4\" hole drilled in the back. I set this up in eCabinets using an Upper Frameless cabinet for my drawer box laying it on its back. I then took the back of the drawer box (cabinet top) into the Part Editor and...

I was trying to set up a spline to handle some curved molding. I recall from 91000 class that we used a program called CAD Path to get a smoother fit. I created my spline and checked all the points and it looked good. I then ran CAD Path and when I went to test the program I got a \"Z axis out ...