Craig Snee's Blog - All Comments

re: Face Frame Discussion Group

design59 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:03:41 GMT

I agree with that for tall cabinets. I would also like to be able to remove the bottom face frame so the door would go to the bottom of the face frame stile.

re: Advanced Frameless Library, New Users Discussion

Florida MV Craig — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:32:13 GMT

Corner Fillers have become an issue and a decison has been made, we will change the format and function one more time. To make it more user friendly, we will give the user the ability to input angles from 1 to 179 degrees, then choose a toggle that sets inside or outside wall angles. What this means is we then can do any angle of wall needed, including a 90 degree outside wall filler.

re: Face Frame Discussion Group

Russ — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:24:13 GMT

Working with build 13 I've discovered a few issues.

I would like to see a hardware addition of a 5/8 overlay hinge, Blum preferably at a type 38N. The hinge overlay drives the door overlay and thus the buyout reports.

The 1 door diagonal corner upper is missing the Door_Style option in the Door Tab when a generic door is selected.

The 1 door diagonal corner base with false front has selection on the shelf tab that should be on the door tab and visa versa.

I'd also like to control the amount the face frame projects above the tall cabinets. This option exists in the upper cabs but not the talls. That way I can make a box with a full frame that slides into a hallway pocket closet. My work around was to move the top down and trim the end panels and back.

So far, this is a fantastic library. I look forward to future revisions with more features.

Thanks

Russ

re: Face Frame Discussion Group

pkupman_77 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:30:38 GMT

is anyone using the latest build 13 yet? any comments?

re: Frameless Library Ideas and Information Exchange

Florida MV Craig — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:51:35 GMT

The door drawer items have been fixed in the master build, thanks for the feedback. I am sure development is seeing these blogs and making a list.

re: Advanced Frameless Library, New Users Discussion

Florida MV Craig — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:12:18 GMT

If that link dont work, try this one, sroll down to the section about Microvellum when it loads. www.modernwoodworking.com/articles.aspx

re: Frameless Library Ideas and Information Exchange

cabinets25 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:36:56 GMT

Craig, Just a quick note in the new Advanced Library the 2 Door 1 Drawer Base has #NAME? errors for the adjustable shelves and the Shelf Standards, they reference Division Qty and Adj. Shelf Rows, also it doesn't draw the wall fillers. Also is there anyway that the programmers could get the cabinets to come in on there respective layers in plan view (ie.Base Cabinets on the 2D base layer,Uppers on the 2D Upper layer etc.?

re: Advanced Frameless Library, New Users Discussion

Florida MV Craig — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:41:43 GMT

Here is a link you might want to read if considering the power user library.

www.modernwoodworking-digital.com/.../200808

re: Frameless Library Ideas and Information Exchange

Florida MV Craig — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:10:28 GMT

Currently, we are adding "Product Splitters" to the library. What the splitters will do is allow you, the user, to break up the inside of a cabinet into sections. The Horizontal splitter for example, will inject Divisions into the space you allocate using pick points on your drawing. You tell it how many spaces are to be made in the allocated space.

Once the spaces are set, you can access prompts then populate the openings with items such as shelves, doors, drawers on the fly. You can see an example of splitters in the existing combo library or viewing this power point presentation made by Lenny. forums.microvellum.com/.../entry8533.aspx

re: Face Frame Discussion Group

pkupman_77 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:12:19 GMT

The if statement is applied to the front of the existing formula that is in the name cell of that subassy, on the subassy tab, at the product level. (hope that makes sense).

I too need something like what you describe for an appliance EP.

re: Face Frame Discussion Group

design59 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:48:39 GMT

I agree with the ability to have different types of applied end panels. I use it at a stove for both wall cabinets and bases. I also use something I call an appliance end panel, this is just a short applied piece at an appliance like a dishwasher, it only needs to be 4"-5" wide so when the door is open you don't see a void and you have something to attach the appliance to (my face frame are flush to the inside of the cabinet). Where are you adding the if statement?

re: Face Frame Discussion Group

pkupman_77 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:38:52 GMT

I've got an easy suggestion as i already have a solution. I need to be able to change FE style per side of cabinet, not per cabinet. This is for say a Tall that has bases and walls on one side. that side would be a slab construction while the other could be a door panel. I've done this one one product via adding two new checkbox prompts, "FE Slab Right Override" and FE slab left override", then adding a simple IF statement to the name formula for that side in front of the existing statement in the subassy name cell. this is the formula :

=IF(Slab_FE_Left=1,"FE Upper Left Slab",IF(OR(FE_Panel_Library="MV Legacy Door System",FE_Panel_Library="MV Slab"),"FE Upper Left Slab",IF(FE_Panel_Library="MV MDF Door System","FE Upper Left MDF","FE Upper Left Solid Wood")))

I would like this put into build 12 if possible

re: Frameless Library Ideas and Information Exchange

Florida MV Craig — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:15:31 GMT

At the IWF show, I made the rounds to the hardware vendors to try and get as many 3D drawings of products as I could. The reception was less than ideal. You would think these guys are protecting nuclear secrets or something, they just dont want to give them up.

My goal is to give users as much information as I can, as well as graphic information. So far, Blum has been the only company to give us total access to everything for grapics. In return, we have made them available in the new frameless library.

We plan on making huge gains in the kitchen cabinet market, therefore, the more hardware drawings we get, the better your drawings will get.

I think it will be up to you, the buyers of hardware to start pressing vendors to make these drawings available to us and yourselves. Guess we need some squeaky wheels out there to get the oil going.

One bit of good news, we did make an arrangement with one vendor on Rollout hardware and will be working on preparing these items for distrubution as time permits.

If you have any 3D hardware drawings of specialty items, feel free to offer trades with yours truly.

re: Face Frame Discussion Group

design59 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:11:35 GMT

would it be possible to make the molding selection work something like this. when you want to pick a molding the program would go to a windows like window with multiple thumb nails to view at once, you could pick the one you want and that would populate the field in the globals. Also all moldings should be placed from the cabinet side of the molding (top of base,Bottom of Crown,window side of casing)

re: Face Frame Discussion Group

design59 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:59:07 GMT

I also noticed when rollouts are used they seem to index from the front of the cabinet, so if you change the depth of the rollout it stays forward in the cabinet. I would like to be able to change the depth and maintain a standard gap off the back.