Cabinet cost sheet not calculating right

[Donald Thomson]

I am putting together some seed cabinets. I have specified door and drawer hardware (hinges and slides) defaults. I add doors and drawers to the cabinet. In one case it is a bathroom vanity that has a false drawer front. So I'm adding 4 drawers and boxes, 1 drawer front with no drawer box and 2 doors.

When I go to main and run the cost sheet for the cabinet, instead of calculating 4 sets of slides, it is calculating 5 sets of drawer slides even though I have only 4 drawer boxes.

Is this a known bug?

[Kerry Fullington]

Don,

The drawer slides are associated to the drawer front not the drawer so you have to remove the default slide when you place the false front or it will add the slide even though you aren't placing a drawer.

Kerry

[Donald Thomson]

Thanks Kerry!

I assumed the drawer slides were added with a drawer box, not a drawer face. That brings up another problem. When you set a default slide I thought it was for the entire cabinet not for each individual drawer.

Based on what you are saying, you need to remove the default slide for the cabinet, add your false drawer front, then add the default slide for the rest of your drawers that will have slides. Is that a correct assumption?

[Kerry Fullington]

Don,

Your assumption is correct. You must remove the default slide association for false fronts and then add it back for fronts with drawers. This is something that needs to be changed.
You can get around it by adding your drawers with the drawer box editor instead of the Door/Drawer Front editor but this too is a pain.

Kerry

[Donald Thomson]

You're right Kerry. It seems odd that drawer slides are linked to drawer fronts and not drawer boxes. Maybe this will be fixed in a future release.

[Kerry Fullington]

Don,
When eCabinets was first released, it didn't have the ability to show drawer boxes so they associated the hardware to the fronts to include the slides in the Buy List and it has never been changed.

[Josh Rayburn]

Hey guys,
I agree that the slide and hole pattern should be associated to the drawer box instead of the drawer front. However, I'm thinking that this might necessitate the installation of drawer boxes into cabinets where I'd normally just place the fronts. I would not usually include the drawer boxes because we all know how much time that adds to the regeneration and the whole process in general.
Hopefully if this is changed, we might have the ability to choose an option of some sort which could include "display only" DBX's that don't even need to regenerate, or something else similar to recent threads about "cutlist only" drawer boxes....or something along those lines anyhow...
jnr

[Kerry Fullington]

Josh,

Maybe there could be another check box nest to Add Drawer Box with Drawer Front in Construction Settings that states Add Hardware. Then you could add the drawer or not and add the hardware or not. Your drawer settings would take affect placement of the hardware even if you don't add the drawer. This would be handy for outsourced drawer boxes also.

Kerry

[Josh Rayburn]

Interesting idea, Kerry. That might be an improvement.
jnr