An Old Problem is Back

Kerry Fullington · Post by **Kerry Fullington** » Fri, Oct 05 2007, 3:01PM

Open the attached job,
Take the upper wall with cabinet so elevation view in detail room
Double click the upper cabinet to highlight it
The right position box will show 100 11/32
Type 100\" in the right position box
The cabinet goes back to 100 11/32

I am having trouble using the position boxes for uppers in several jobs.
I created this little room just to show the problem.
Kerry

Lamar Horton · Post by **Lamar Horton** » Fri, Oct 05 2007, 5:52PM

Kerry, I have had this problem all along, I even posted it a while back. It is rather annoying.

Michael Yeargain · Post by **Michael Yeargain** » Fri, Oct 05 2007, 6:41PM

Sometimes I can put a negative sign (-) in front of the number and hit return and it will straighten out.

This happens almost all the time for me on an angular wall.

Kerry Fullington · Post by **Kerry Fullington** » Fri, Oct 05 2007, 7:16PM

Michael,
This was a problem with angular walls and walls with cutouts back in Beta Testing. Scott worked on it back then and I haven't noticed it until just recently. It now is a problem on right angle walls.

Kerry

Leo Graywacz · Post by **Leo Graywacz** » Fri, Oct 05 2007, 9:06PM

I get these problems all the time on straight walls. It will either not move or move to some random number. Say you type in 65\", it might go to 36.656\". No matter what you type it always seems to go to this dimension. I have given up on it and now use the move function to get to where I need the cabinet. It is slower and needs a calculator sometimes, but it works right.

Damon Nabors · Post by **Damon Nabors** » Fri, Oct 05 2007, 10:04PM

Kerry,

Maybe I am doing something wrong, but when I download the DOWNLOAD, all I get is a page showing the sheet stock selection. So I went to a mock room and placed an upper cabinet on the wall. Dbl clicked the wall to take it to elevation mode. I then dbl clicked the cab to turn it green. I can position it up, dn, left, right. And the number stay where I selected. Did I do something different than you?

Thanks,
Damon

Grady Pinckard · Post by **Grady Pinckard** » Sat, Oct 06 2007, 9:07AM

I had a similar problem the other day in the profile manager. I was designing a tool for bead board paneling and the center bead would not center up. I finally had to design the tool in another cad program as a dxf and import it to the PM and it worked fine. This problem seems to be scattered through-out the software. Hope it can be fixed soon.
Grady

Kerry Fullington · Post by **Kerry Fullington** » Sat, Oct 06 2007, 9:21AM

This seems to be a problem with my cabinets.
I tried with a standard cabinet and everything works OK.
I can also take the upper cabinet in the room above to the cabinet editor, go to construction settings then exit to re-generate the cabinet and save changes to the room and everything works as it should.

The eCab guys still might want to look at this so we don't have to re-generate 500 cabinets every time there is a new build.

Kerry

Michael Yeargain · Post by **Michael Yeargain** » Sat, Oct 06 2007, 9:24AM

Kerry Fullington wrote:
The eCab guys still might want to look at this so we don't have to re-generate 500 cabinets every time there is a new build.

Kerry

I think therein could be the problem. It does seem like so many problems are from build to build.

And yea. I'm rebuilding as we speak, my entire library...

Chris Robinson · Post by **Chris Robinson** » Sat, Oct 06 2007, 1:32PM

I'm also experiencing the same thing but not consistently on every job. Of the last 3 jobs that I've designed this week, all had right angle walls. But the last job showed this problem and the other two didn't. I'm not able to determine anything different. I'm using the same library and same procedure. The only discernable difference was that the last job had 120\" tall walls and the other two had 96\" tall walls.

Chris

Kerry Fullington · Post by **Kerry Fullington** » Sat, Oct 06 2007, 2:52PM

Chris,
While in detail room, highlight one of the cabinets that is giving you problems and take it to the cabinet editor,
Open construction settings then click OK to re-generate the cabinet,
Save the changes to the room and see if the cabinet then behaves properly using the position boxes.

Kerry

Mike Snodgrass · Post by **Mike Snodgrass** » Sun, Oct 07 2007, 8:56PM

I have been fighting this for a long time. One of my employees uses standard cabinets that have been resized only, and he fights it to.

Walker T Scott · Post by **Walker T Scott** » Mon, Oct 08 2007, 6:28AM

Kerry

Ill have the programmers look at this and as soon as they give me an answer ill get back with you.

Walker

Walker T Scott · Post by **Walker T Scott** » Thu, Nov 08 2007, 7:43AM

Kerry,

This issue has been fixed for 5.2.
Thanks
Walker

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