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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.
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/.
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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
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