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   WillGeorge | Feb 11, 2005 04:54pm | #1

   Try this link I found.

   http://www.mr-cad.com/default.php

   I do not have that software but if made by the original Design Cad 3D folks should be great!

   ASK them for a list of users you can contact??

   Just me..

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   douglas2cats | Feb 11, 2005 04:58pm | #2

   Do a search on this forum for "Design Cad" (and maybe "DesignCad" too). There have been quite a few posts in the past from DC users - I just don't happen to be one of them.

    

   If you build it - he will come.

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   forestgirl | Feb 11, 2005 07:37pm | #3

   Here's the link to a DesignCad thread:
   http://forums.taunton.com/tp-knots/messages?msg=20233.1

   Several of us either went out and bought it, or already had version 14.  I haven't put the time into learning it yet (no CAD experience at all) but I'm optimistic about it's usefulness.

   Do you know about the eCabinet software???  LMK if you need info on it.  I have it bookmarked on another computer, and can post the link this afternoon.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
   Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   SOBrien | Feb 12, 2005 04:20am | #4

   Thanks to all for your help, Well I Just bought version #15 of design max today online, it was only about $40.00 even if it gives me a basic knowlege of cad its worth every penny, I certainly will be checking back in here to give my opinion, and I do have e-cabinets, and I found it very difficult to learn, I just dont have the kind of time to devote to it. I have seen some kitchen design programs that can cost around $4,000. I could buy some nice power tools for that.

   Thanks again to everyone for your help .

   sman

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   forestgirl | Feb 12, 2005 09:15am | #5

   Sman, when you get the DesignCad, it proably will have only a single tutorial disc with it which is of limited help.  However, if you click on "Help" in the main DesignCad program, you'll see a tutorial option.  If you have no CAD experience, my take is that the best way to learn in the long run is to print out the tutorial instructions and simply go through them from start to finish.  That's my plan anyway, LOL.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   SOBrien | Feb 12, 2005 04:34pm | #7

   For the amount of volume I do in cabinet "design" it will be somthing that might be just enough to get some lines and dimensions drawn to get an idea of what I am dealing with, in almost all my situations a client will either hand me a picture out of a magazine or a drawing from a designer, and then I can focus what I do best build a cabinet or bookcase or whatever, to fit in the space at hand. but I do run across an ocassion where I might want to add somthing to there ideas, so we will see where this takes me, I would much rather be in front of a table saw than a computer.

   Well thanks again for all your help,if I can help with any info I will return the favor

   sman

    

   Edited 2/12/2005 4:26 pm ET by sman

   Edited 2/14/2005 7:38 am ET by sman

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   cowtown | Feb 12, 2005 10:46am | #6

   now don't everyone do this at once eh

   One of the latest issues of Custom Wood Business had an and for ecabinet systemrs.

   What it is, cabinet layout software

   What it costs, nothing, at least as far as I can figure.

   Howso, seems that they are trying to tie users to a buying group, mostly with US suppliers, . Which it turns out you may not have to use. The shopping cart ain't gonna give you a sh*t load of choices.

   Whatya get. Reasonably full fledged cabinet layout software. I ain't sure of all the partikulars, but methinks there are some limitations. But if you ever wanted to get cad software for cabinets and couldn't justifuy paying multikilodollars for Cabinetware, you may wanna play with this.

   Does it work with your methods of cabinet construction? I dunno I'd stick my neck out on this more than to say 80% of the time it will. It don't for me (one dado is on the wrong board as far as they are concerned....)

   Is it on the list of must have software? Not freakin likely. You'd be better off spending any time learning how to use yer accounting or tax software. Most of these attempts at standardization really cater to the standard, There's a learning curve on any of em, so the immediate effect is to help you to cut gables.

   On a personal perspective, I is cutting kitchen #2 of 6 similar but not identical kitchens. I spent two hours trying to push through a cutting list of one cabinet. OTOH, I sketched rough cuts for two kitchens on materials in 15 minutes.

   I remember solicitating a sales call from Cabinetware way back when, the fella even came to my house. Big advantage as far as he was concerned, I could precut my gables. If I cannot do that in a minute on a piece of paper i is in trubble. For that advantage I was expected to pay was it 5 or 6 thou. If I wanted the updates with laminate colours so I could print out colour renderings it cost me more.

   What he didn't tell me was if the kitchen walls were out of plumb square etc just who'd pick up the tab for the recutting the oversized cabinets, re-ordering the doors, finishing the doors, or absorb the costs associated with delayed completion.

   ergo, the site is out there...http://www.ecabinetsystems.com/

   scope it out. Regardless of how inadequte I have found it, this was/is the first time I've ever seen any half-as*ed serious cabinet oriented CAD software free for passing the registration requirements.

   With the one cabinet that I tried to lay out to fit my system, the one dado on the wrong piece meant that the cut list would have one wrong piece, ergo, the cutting layout would be off, so with one measurement off, i'd be back at manual recalculation anyway for sheet optimization. Ergo, I may as well not bother, but I'm thinkin long and hard if I can move my rabbet from one piece to the other. It might not be such a bad idea.

   This might be the cusp of something that may ramp up towards real utility with a modicum of a user base behind it.

   I ain't sure, but I think this is in fact an iteration of a cabinet design software that came out of Montreal about 8 or 9 years ago.