Assembly Question

[Gary Puckett]

Here is the file.

Gary

[DanEpps]

You don't get this message when you open the file in the Cabinet Editor? This message is caused by the HSF file type not having information required to be a cabinet. This is why you cannot change an assembly or Display Boject to a cabinets.

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[Kerry Fullington]

Dan,

I get the same result as Gary. The object functions properly when opened as a display object in the cabinet editor but when I try to take it back into the Display Part Editor it crashes eCabinets.
Did you open his file as a cabinet file or a Display Object.?

Gary,
I would still build this as Dan suggested earlier, a cabinet with everything but the face frame and drawer fronts removed. Make the cabinet 3/4" deep and save it as a cabinet then place it on the back of your other cabinet and save as an assembly.


Kerry

[Gary Puckett]

Thanks ,

I will have to do it Dans way , I don't know if it will still let me rotate the doors to show they are opened

It's just weird eCabinets should look at this as a hsf file and let it function as one, it's like it knows what I am trying to do

Gary

[DanEpps]

...The object functions properly when opened as a display object in the cabinet editor but when I try to take it back into the Display Part Editor it crashes eCabinets...

It should function properly when loaded as a Display Object but Gary says that he is loading it into the Cabinet Editor as a cabinet, not a Display Object.

Another thing is that Gary keeps saying he is trying to load it into the Part Editor, NOT the Display Part Editor--which is it? It indeed crashes eCabinets when loaded into the Display Part Editor.

Gary: We have to have accurate information to help you. There is a HUGE difference between the Part Editor and Display Part Editor. Are you loading this file into the Cabinet Editor as a cabinet or Display Object? That is very important. Are you trying to use the Part Editor or Display Part Editor? That is also very important.

[Kerry Fullington]

Gary,

You will have to add the doors that you want to display open manually in the cabinet editor not in the Door/Drawer Front Editor. They will still show up in the cutlist.

Kerry

[Gary Puckett]

Dan,

I am loading the part in the cabinet editor as a assembly not a display object.

I am then trying to load the part in the Display Part Editor .

What I am saying is the Door was made piece by piece with display boards, and default drawer fronts. Then that was saved as an assembly. Now when I go to load the assembly in the cabinet editor it shows up as a whole door.
Now I select the door ( the whole door has a green mesh around it ) and export it as a hsf file save it to my desk top.
Then I go to the display part editor and try to load the hsf file and eCab. crashes Why??????? It let me save it as a hsf file eCab. should read it as a hsf file. If I go to properties it says it's a hsf file.

Gary

[Kerry Fullington]

Gary,

I think I may have discovered why your cabinet is crashing the Display Part Editor

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The Arrow is pointing to a Standard Base Frameless that I loaded next to your cabinet.
your cabinet scales somewhere around 112 feet wide by 149 feet high.
(Your cabinet lost it's texture when I loaded it in the Cabinet Editor is the reason for the yellow)

Kerry

[Gary Puckett]

Kerry,

This is what I scaled the door to be

[Kerry Fullington]

Gary,

This is what i get when I open your cabinet in the Display Part Editor

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there is definitely something screwy with this. I would just rebuild it as Dan suggested.

Kerry