dkrage
03-21-2012, 07:26 AM
For those of you using eCabs/SBLink I ran into an issue with ShopBot Link 1.0.18 that has been confirmed as a bug by Thermwood. It has to do with how SBLink handles door and drawer fronts grouped in ecabs.
It's on their to-do list to exterminate.
I created a single long cabinet in ecabs with three sections separated by partitions. The left and right sections contained three drawers of two different heights. The center section contained a top drawer and two doors below. See attached low-res image.
I specified the fronts to be grain-matched, so in ecabs I grouped the 9 fronts.
All is good for now. However, when the TWD was sent to SBLink and subsequently cut from a really pretty 4x8x3/4 sheet of expensive Teragren bamboo, the left and right side lower 2 of 3 drawer fronts were cut about 5mm short. oweee.
So, in order to do grain-matched (grouped parts) fronts I created a PartWorks file to make all cuts except the two rips splitting the lower 2 fronts on the left and right. This two cuts were done the "old-fashioned way"...on my 400lb 1972 Rockwell table saw.
Now I could be all hacked off that I blew a $400 sheet of bamboo...I'm not happy about that, granted...but I have to say I was quite impressed with Scott Vaal/Thermwood and his very timely response to my post on the Thermwood forum (initially within an hour, diagnosis by end of day).
Dan
It's on their to-do list to exterminate.
I created a single long cabinet in ecabs with three sections separated by partitions. The left and right sections contained three drawers of two different heights. The center section contained a top drawer and two doors below. See attached low-res image.
I specified the fronts to be grain-matched, so in ecabs I grouped the 9 fronts.
All is good for now. However, when the TWD was sent to SBLink and subsequently cut from a really pretty 4x8x3/4 sheet of expensive Teragren bamboo, the left and right side lower 2 of 3 drawer fronts were cut about 5mm short. oweee.
So, in order to do grain-matched (grouped parts) fronts I created a PartWorks file to make all cuts except the two rips splitting the lower 2 fronts on the left and right. This two cuts were done the "old-fashioned way"...on my 400lb 1972 Rockwell table saw.
Now I could be all hacked off that I blew a $400 sheet of bamboo...I'm not happy about that, granted...but I have to say I was quite impressed with Scott Vaal/Thermwood and his very timely response to my post on the Thermwood forum (initially within an hour, diagnosis by end of day).
Dan