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[kevin]

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[kevin]

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[kevin]

I included a before picture. It wasn't hard to do better. I am showing pictures during the project. It is really not that difficult. The legs were done by Stephen from Cottage Woodworkers who sent me the files. I used Cabinet parts pro for the whole unit. To design it, I used Kitchen Draw but what I would be curious about is with the ShopBot link, can the design software look like my unit? I am curious what would be more efficient. That is the biggest headache in these design software. They can't do what you do. I don't have the budget to start doing this in AutoCad. I am fortunate enough to have enough pictures so it is not a big deal for me if the design software does not look like the unit. That is about my only bug. I'd be curious to see a computer drawing and the final product. I always find out that they don't look the same. I also posted the bottom one. We can do urban. We are not a one trick pony. It is a concrete countertop, all solid wood edging on the doors with book match veneer. I try to post every so often because I think I get more from the forum than I give in. I just wish more cabinetmakers would submit more of their stuff.

[myxpykalix]

beautiful work, as usual kevin. How many hours do you have in this project? Are the columns in the FP full rounds? What did Stephen charge? Did you do the columns yourself or did he do them for you? Great job!

[loriny]

Nice work Kevin.
Ecabs can I'm sure give you a rendering like your finished product. I haven't gotten into that kind of detail and that has worked for me and my customers. Some of the stuff people post here but more so on the ecabs forum is rendered so realistically it is mind boggling. For just design and cut I sure prefer my SB link to my CPPro- Not saying it isn't good just that I prefer the link.
Lorin

[joe]

Kevin,

Beautiful work my friend. This kind of work puts money in the bank and keeps clients coming.

Look forward to seeing more work of this kind.

Joe

[Gary Campbell]

Kevin...
To answer your question, yes. For myself, the rendering abilities of eCabs are seldom used. Maybe if I spent more time practicing.

The picture below is a rendered view from eCabs done by Kerry Fullington, who is a master of the presentation. There are many more on his website: http://www.kerryfullington.com this was from the designs page.

[myxpykalix]

Gary,
When you design cabinets, if you don't use the renderings how do you know whether you are close in your final designs? I wonder how long it would take to get good enough to be able to design stuff like that? Do you design in a 2D vector environment?

[Gary Campbell]

Jack...
The majority of our work is designed by Architects or designers. They provide plan and elevation views. We just build them.

There are a good number of ShopBotters that have switched to eCabs since the introduction of the SB Link. Many of them are very profficient with the custom layout.

Timewise, a few months to be good. A number of years to be as good as Kerry.