Is this possible to do in eCabinets

[Donald Thomson]

I've attached a picture of a cabinet a customer wants. Is this possible using eCabs to do this with a cabinet and still have it cut properly on a CNC? I still would like to use BlindDado M&T joinery for the deck and mid shelf.

Thanks!

[Kerry Fullington]

Sure
Use a deck float to shorten the face frame then inset the front of your deck. Cut the arc in the ends using the part editor and use a fixed shelf for the new deck at the face frame.

Kerry

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[David Werkheiser]

Kerry, thanks for sharing with us, is it possible to duplicate cutouts for both sides, or do they have to be done separate?
Dave Werkheiser

[Kerry Fullington]

David,

You have to do each side separately but when you do the first side, do it in contour and save the geometry. You can then open the geometry when you take the second side to contour and use it to make the cut. If you do this cabinet again you will already have the geometry.

Kerry

[David Werkheiser]

Kerry
Thank you, I will try that.
I saw in one of your posts, (WoodWeb I think) a render of a theater that you were checking "sight lines", did you do that in eCabs? if so, it was very well done
David

[Kerry Fullington]

David,

Thanks. Yes the theatre drawing was done using eCabinets. The walls were walls and most everything else is display cubes. The curtains are display cubes with a wavy part editor cut.

Kerry

[Donald Thomson]

Hi Kerry,

I apologize for the slow response. I was on a few night camping trip. It was my first time away from the shop in over a year. I needed the decompress

Thank you very much for the "how to" for this cabinet. I will be trying, for the first time, to use the contour editor to make sure the cabinet curves are symmetrical.

[Kerry Fullington]

Don,

Here is a tip you might use.

Take your left end into the part editor and then contour
Create your geometry for the cut in contour and save it to a file there.
Cut the geometry in the part editor and return the left end to the cabinet

When you bring the right end into the part editor use the drop down menu to choose C-Back view which flips the part
Now take the part into contour and open your saved geometry
This lets you cut using the same geometry without creating a mirror image of it

Kerry

[Donald Thomson]

Thanks Kerry. I will give it a try. Your instructions make it easy to follow.

[Donald Thomson]

Wouldn't you know it, right in the middle of creating the contours eCabs decides to crash and loose my work..... Go figure......

[Mike Seisser]

That's not a crash, that's a 'Training Exercise'.