Todd Pankratz

Thank You

Oh sure Kevin... You get to run around with a flowing red Cape and a Big IC on your chest Some of us have to work and don't have time to read 617 pages to figure out how to do something... If my boss caught me spending 3 hours of non-chargeable time on this he'd just tell me to draw it up in AutoCAD... None of us want THAT to happen now DO we??? All I want to do is select the left edge of the left door and align it to the left side of the cabinet with an 1/8" offset and then select the right edge of the left door and align it to the center of the bottom with a 1/16" offset and then do the same thing but mirrored to the right door. For some reason I can get one or the other to work but not both at the same time. The rest of the parts are working fantabulously utilizing the associative edge process (Thanks tlehnhaeuser). Looking at your parametric cabinet file you posted, while COOL, doesn't help because I don't understand what you did to get it to do that. I don't remember WHEN I got stupid, but it must have happened recently cause I'm sure feelin' it.

OK... I understand WHAT I need to do... I just don't understand HOW to do it... Is there a Tutorial somewhere on how to write expressions and assign them to a part? The "Help" file is of no HELP. I'm almost there... Everything sizes when I move a Side of the cabinet other than the Doors... I can't get them to stay 1/8" away from the outside and 1/16" away from the center of the cabinet. I've tried constraints but it seems as though you can only have one per door, otherwise the door goes all askew... HELP Please

Thanks... I'll check it out after I get these submittal drawings finished and let you know. I appreciate everyones help.

I found the demo right after I posted this but have not had time to open it yet. Thanks!!!

I have messed around with the aspect locks but I'm not sure if I have them right. Here's the file of the 36" Base Cabinet. See what you can do with it. I'd really like to be able to just drop this into a catalog and drop it into a scene and resize for quick shop drawings. Thanks for the help. 36_Base_End.ics

OK kids... this concept has evaded me from the very beginning (v3.2) and I just haven't had the time to dig into it until now. I work for a cabinet shop. Almost all of our base cabinets are the same height and depth but the width varies, and it's not always by a set amount. All of the parts of the cabinets are made the same way. My sides all have the same machining (for a drawer and a door anyway) and they are always the same thickness (3/4"). My stretchers are always 4" x 3/4" x ?? depending on width of cabinet. etc, etc, etc... I have a 36" base cabinet modeled and all parts are combined into an assembly. I thought I had it set, using constraints, so that when I changed the width of the assembly I would end up with a different size cabinet. On the surface this seemed to be the case, until I looked at my sides. What used to be a 3/4" thick side in a 36" cabinet has now become a 1/2" side in a 24" cabinet. Is there any way to lock the sizes of certain parts so that only the position moves when resizing an assembly?

Thank you very much for the FAST reply. Was this intentional? or an Ooops? Thanks for the work-around either way.

I just now installed PU2 for IronCAD 8 while there was a lul in the action... I started working on a drawing and, much to my surprise, one of my favorite enhancements from a past update was GONE. What happened to 1" = 1'-0" and so forth in the view scale options? Is there a way to get it back? I liked not having to try and remember what 1:96 was equivelent to. PLEASE tell me I can get it back or that I am missing a radio button I need to check somewhere.

Thank You very much... I could have sworn that I had googled it previously and came up empty handed. Maybe it was in a dream... hmmm... You know you're spending way too much time with a triball in your hand when you start dreaming you did something to help out your IronCAD efficiency... Is it summer yet?

I work mostly with different species of wood but also use a multitude of other materials for example: Fiberglass resin, sheet aluminum, expandable foam, extruded foam, steel, You name it, we use it. It would be great if I could punch in the mass density of the materials I am using as I am engineering the display to aid in hardware selection and to calculate the weight of the piece for shipping purposes. Does anyone know of a website or websites that list the mass density of specific materials? I know, with wood, it would depend on how dry the wood is but an average weight would be nice. Any help would be greatly appreciated.