Assembly Question

[Gary Puckett]

I have to put together a door, Rails,Styles,and panels. When I do this I must save it as an assembly,but when I try to highlite the door to rotate it( to show the door open) the only part that gets the green mesh is the part my curser is on.

What am I missing?

Gary

[DanEpps]

With an assembly you have to select (double-click) a single cabinet before selecting individual parts to rotate.

The question is, why would you save it as an assembly? If you started with a face frame cabinet and removed everything except the frames, you can still add doors and save it as a cabinet.

[Gary Puckett]

Dan,

I have to make the doors. Here is a picture of the cabinet, the back is going to look just like the front except they are two doors.

[DanEpps]

Okay, your assembly is made up of two cabinets...the "main" cabinet as shown and the back panel with open doors.

What I was referring to is the part that you will use for the back--the one with just frames, doors and panels--not the entire assembly. Save it as a cabinet and join it the the other cabinet to make an assembly. Just make sure that you associate any manually added parts to it before saving it or you will lose them. You can even place the doors open then save it as a cabinet and it will retain that feature.

When you have an assembly, you must select a single cabinet before you can perform any operations on its parts.

[Gary Puckett]

Sorry to take so long to reply,

What I did was to create the styles and the rails out of display boards, put them together in the cabinet editor, then loaded the default drawer fronts and placed them in the openings, then saved it as an assembly.

Now I should be able to click on any part of the saved assembly and rotate it, sence the whole thing was saved as an assembly it should respond as a whole . Right

Gary

[Kerry Fullington]

Gary,

In the cabinet assembly editor your assembly will behave as individual parts.
If you place the assembly into a room in Custom Layout it will behave as an assembly of parts.

Kerry

[Gary Puckett]

Kerry,

You are correct, so I took the assembly and saved it as a hsf file to take it to the part editor save it and see if it would then react as a whole, but when I load it in the part editor I get the message ( eCabinets has stopped working ) and it closes.

Once again this is a part that was made from eCabinet files nothing from other sources and it shuts down

Gary

[DanEpps]

Start with a face frame cabinet, remove everything except the frames, add doors MANUALLY, rotate the doors, associate them to the cabinet, save as a cabinet, add to your other cabinet (either in the room or in the Cabinet Editor). If you add it in the Cabinet Editor you will have to save the whole thing as an assembly.

[Gary Puckett]

Thanks Dan,

I will do that, I keep forgetting to make everything from a cabinet.

But there usually is a back door to everything , and I thought I opened it when I save the assembly as a hsf file. Still doesn't click on why it shut down

Gary

[DanEpps]

Like this:

Open Door.jpg (14.34 KiB) Viewed 8511 times

[DanEpps]

...But there usually is a back door to everything , and I thought I opened it when I save the assembly as a hsf file. Still doesn't click on why it shut down...

Once an assembly, always an assembly unless it is exported as an HSF for use in the Display Part Editor, then it becomes a Display Object, not a cabinet. If you want a cabinet you must start with a cabinet.

[Gary Puckett]

...But there usually is a back door to everything , and I thought I opened it when I save the assembly as a hsf file. Still doesn't click on why it shut down...

Once an assembly, always an assembly unless it is exported as an HSF for use in the Display Part Editor, then it becomes a Display Object, not a cabinet. If you want a cabinet you must start with a cabinet.

Thats what I wanted to do, so I saved the assembly as a hsf file, and when I tried to open it in the part editor eCabinet shut down why?????????

The assembly is fine it opens in the cabinet editor.

Gary

[DanEpps]

You're confusing me Gary, so let me make sure I have it straight.

You started with just Display Boards to make up a face frame, correct? Then you added doors to it and saved it as a assembly, correct?

Now where I'm getting lost is just how you managed to save it as an HSF. Did you select the assembly and do "File->Export Selection" to save it as an HSF? If so, that creates a Display Object, NOT a cabinet. You can open the file in the Cabinet Editor and even save it again as a cabinet, but it is still not a cabinet. Since it is a Display Object and not a true cabinet part, it cannot be edited in the Part Editor. You MUST have a true cabinet to edit a part in the Part Editor.

[Gary Puckett]

You started with just Display Boards to make up a face frame, correct? Then you added doors to it and saved it as a assembly, correct?
Yes thats correct


Did you select the assembly and do "File->Export Selection" to save it as an HSF?
Yes thats correct.

Now when I go to open the saved HSF file in the part editor eCabinets shuts down.

Gary

[Kerry Fullington]

Gary,
If you saved the parts as a display object as you stated you will not be able to take the file to the Part Editor. There will be an error telling you that you can;t edit this kind of object. That error is probaably what is crashing eCabs.

You can however open the object back in the Display Part Editor if that is what you want.

post your display object file.

Kerry