Attention Cabinet Maker Looking for Software.

[thewoodcrafter]

I have never checked how much resources a program takes up.

Does it run O.K.?

[thewoodcrafter]

Well Danny, you are going to miss it then.

It is good you have work.
Many of my competitors are gone and all the garage guys are long gone. Leave more for the rest of us.

[easycabcnc]

A good video card such as an NVidia 9600 series or better will work very good.

Bacically the computer needs a video card with 512MB of memory not shared memory.

There is a lot of graphic components in the program, they operate even when idle, if the program does not rotate the cabinet smoothly, the video card is bottle necking.

[Gary Campbell]

Clay...
I tried to install the demo on my Vista design computer.. and it will not run. It did however, run on my vista laptop, but due to a lot less ram and vid ram... not all that well. Any ideas?
Thanks, Gary

[easycabcnc]

Its the video card on the one machine, if the computer hangs up, or there is an access violation warning, that is the video card.

Vista software needs twice as much memory on the video card as XP. If its running slow, thats a video problem, I put it on my wifes EEE laptop it runs the cabinet design ok enough, the the kitchen rendering takes over a minute.

My computer renders the kitchen samples in 4.5 seconds.

I am running a desktop quad core, with 4 gig of ram, a 7900 series Nvidia card with 512MB on it.

It runs pretty fast, is the same computer I built the program on.

[dray]

what 909? I thought it was in Northern Ca?

Ahh I just looked.. Ontario. Sat I may go.

I just emailed Gabe to see what they will be covering.

[Gary Campbell]

Clay...
I dont think its the card. My design computer is virtually the same as yours... quad core 6600 2.4ghtz, OC'ed to 3.2ghtz, 4 gigs of ram, and dual 9200 vid cards with 512meg each in crossfire mode. Processor, NB, SB, ram and vid are liquid cooled.

I would like a little more info on EasyCabs. We are currently doing inhouse drawings for our parts processing as most Apps out there can not acommodate all our needs.

Does your software support, or have an option for the following?
1) Drawer Slide Drilling?
2) Door Hinge drilling?
3) Assembly or screw pilot hole drilling?
4) Dowel Drilling?
5) Blind dado joints for horizontal members to sides connection?
6) We use a Hafele 4 hole leveler leg, do you support this item?
7) Blind back dados?
8) Stretcher dados?
9) Pocket screw pockets?

Thanks for your time. These are probably not all of our "special needs" they seem to be the ones I remember that one program or another couldnt give us.
Gary

[easycabcnc]

Gary, try messing with the video cards, maybe because 2 are running? Try changing screen size to a smaller, or color to 16bit.

The program supports line bore 32mm, I am told that these holes provide for the drawers and the hinges and shelves, that its all the same hole size.

The program does dadoes and rabbets blind and thru.

Don't forget you can tweak the already made nesting sheet files in your cam software, thats what I saw Roger do with VCarve.

www.easycab.com

There is some demo nested sheet files for download at the web site above.

[Gary Campbell]

Clay...
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Video card(s) not the issue. Motherboard is design expressly for using 2. Cards are also designed for same. They are linked by a multiconductor cable. That is what ATI calls their proprietary "Crossfire" mode.

Sorry, we do not line bore, we use custom spacing, sometimes 32mm but never total line bore. We also require custom spacing for our drawer slides and door hardware. Am I correct in assuming that the answers would then be Maybe on 1 & 2, yes on 5 & 6, and no on 3,4,7,8 and 9?

I downloaded the DXF's and looked them over. I like the labels on every part. I did not see drawer slide drilling on what I assumed was a drawer base. I also could not see Hinge holes on the other base. Can I assume that the sheetgoods size is 49 by 97? The parts are nested 48.625 by 96.4375. Can the sheet size be changed?

I will look back into the demo an my portable. Its a little pokey with this app running, but I may be able to find some of these answers out.

Thank you again for your time.
Gary

[cabnet636]

i am not sure about each part having its own layer verses all cutouts on one and all dados on one etc. at 1400.00 the 3d just does not get it for me when cpp is comming along so well, then again i have cw, i also like entering my boxes separate (proves that the guys on the benches are reading the drawings)

jim