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eCabinet Systems Software Class

CFT 169

Classes start on August 27th!

 eCabinet Systems Cabinet Design Software is an extremely powerful full featured cabinet and furniture design package that is offered free to both woodworking professionals and students by the Thermwood Corporation.  With this software you can create almost any cabinet configuration you can think of . Once you create your cabinets in the Cabinet/Assembly Editor you can place them in a room to generate realistic  renderings, or just set them up as batch cabinets.  This then allows you to create Line Drawings, Cost Sheets, Buy Lists, Cut Lists and Nest Diagrams (sheet layouts). The output from the software can be ported to a Thermwood CNC router if you wish to outsource the boxes. Unlike most CAD programs this software is "parametric", so if you change the dimensions of a cabinet, everything associated with the cabinet such as faceframes, drawer fronts, drawer boxes and doors are also changed automatically. This program compares to others which would cost you $10,000 or more.

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 Joe Dusel is currently teaching an eCabinet Systems class at the Palomar College Cabinet and Furniture Technology Department in San Marcos, California. The next class will be offered in the Fall of 2008 starting August 27th. This is class number CFT 169. It will be held on Wednesday evenings from 5:00 to 8:50 P.M.  Registration is at http://www.palomar.edu/.   T

This class is held in a fully equipped computer lab, so everyone is able to follow along at their desks. If you do own a laptop I would suggest that you use your own for convenience.  You should also have a flash drive that you can bring to the class to be able to save any files that you generate.

For more info on the class contact Joe at info@woodistry.com. If you are planning on taking the class make sure that you apply for the software ahead of time since it will take about 2 weeks to receive it. You can request the free software here at www.ecabinetsystems.com. If you are not already a woodworking professional you should indicate that you are taking the class at Palomar College. Please contact me if you are interested in an online class. We are looking at offering this in the future if there is a demand for it.

Here are some example renderings from the software. Click on any of the thumbnail pictures to see an enlarged view. If you would like more information page down and click on any of the highlighted links.

 

Here are some of the features of the software:

·        Cabinet/Assembly Editor

·       Part Editor

·        Door Editor

·        Detail Room Editor

·        Line Drawing Editor

·        Hardware Hole Editor

·        Purchasing Interface

·        Easy file sharing

·        Image Editor (IrfanView)

·        Nest Diagrams (Sheet Layout)

·        Cut Lists and Buy Lists