Client Drawing Presentation

[Fred R. Williamson III]

Does anyone have an example of a cabinet drawing that is dimensioned and detailed, that has been presnted before a client, using eCabinets in the way that we use Autocad?

[Kerry Fullington]

Fred,

I don't do very detailed line drawings but Here is an example for This Job

Kerry Fullington

[Gene Davis]

I gotta ask, Fred. Sorry if I have misunderstood something.

Presuming Kerry produced the dimensioned and annotated elevation drawing he showed us here using eCabs software, just what is it that you hope to achieve by somehow \"incorporating\" or \"meshing\" AutoCad with eCabs?

[Fred R. Williamson III]

We make very elaborate 2-d drawings in Autocad. Microvellum is an add-on to Autocad. eCabinets is an independent drafting sytem. we are trying to do one drawing, as Mircovellum calims it can allow. From that one drawing we hope to generate CNC orders and have a presentatin drawing that a client can appreciate

[Georgi Baltov]

Fred,

we are probably something like you then. We make good drawings in Autocad that later get approved form the client and we start manufacturing. We need to present almost every little detail in that drawing so the client knows what they are looking at. We tried in the beginning to do something with eCabinets but it turned very hard. You can not achieve the detail that you can present with AutoCad plus even if you can it will take you forever to do it. I had interest in Cabinet Vision and their drawings seem to be pretty good. The nesting operations and compensations seem to be the problem there. I have to schedule a presentation for microvellum some time this week and see what they can do. In any case the price is what keeps us stick to the present software - eCabinets, Autocad and MasterCam

[Fred R. Williamson III]

Thanks Kerry for a very instrutctive response.
It appears that the 3-d rendering capacity of eCabinets is its strength.
How about the manner in which it presents shop or take-off drawings?
How is ecabinets at that? Any examples I may see?
Thank you all for your responses, the quest continues

[Kerry Fullington]

Fred,

Your shop drawings can be as good as you want them to be.
eCabinets allows you to show of hide any part on a cabinet as well as show any dimensions that you want with the ability to leave out any unwanted dimension.
You can rotate and dimension any part you deem necessary in your shop drawings.
Here is a sample of a simple shop drawing. I don't use shop drawings because I design and build everything myself. I do use it for construction details if I am doing something unusual.

You can also create your room layouts for cabinet placement for installers the same way. They can show as much or as little detail as you feel necessary.

Kerry

[Mike Brannon]

If I create a presentation drawing like this, is there a way to save my work? If I submit this presentation drawing to the Architect and he requests changes, how can I do it so that when I make those changes in the Cabinet Editor, I can bring up the presentation drawing created earlier and see those change?

I like the E-cabinets 3D display for dealing with clients not in the trade, but plans, elevations and sections are a necessity for commercial work.

Thanks
MB

[Michael Yeargain]

Mike,

At the present time e_cabinets does not perform \"real time\" modifications in the LDE. This is something that has been suggested in the past. I'm sure in time this will be available.