john_hartman
05-12-2011, 09:16 PM
I thought I would share the solution to a frustrating occurrence.
On my second ecabinets job, which was face frame, I decided to use blind dados on the right and left sides. I had these set at 60% of material thickness and 1/8" deep. I was able to draw the cabinet this way and nest it in the link. However it would not "write to shopbot". It would lock up and shut down.
It took about 2hrs for me to redraw the cabinet without certain features to uncover what the issue. What I determined was that since I was using a .25 bit and my dado was only 1/8"; it could not get the bit in that space. Once I increased the dado to .25 there was no problem completing the program. Perhaps if the part spacing was alos larger that would have taken care of it.. :rolleyes:
On my second ecabinets job, which was face frame, I decided to use blind dados on the right and left sides. I had these set at 60% of material thickness and 1/8" deep. I was able to draw the cabinet this way and nest it in the link. However it would not "write to shopbot". It would lock up and shut down.
It took about 2hrs for me to redraw the cabinet without certain features to uncover what the issue. What I determined was that since I was using a .25 bit and my dado was only 1/8"; it could not get the bit in that space. Once I increased the dado to .25 there was no problem completing the program. Perhaps if the part spacing was alos larger that would have taken care of it.. :rolleyes: