2D Drawing Instructions (Part 2) - Wood Hacks S1:E5
Hi Friends, This is part two of our five-part Wood Hack mini-series focused on 2D drawing instructions. In this video, we focus on how to add Global controls and parameters for automating your drawings! Prompt Properties:
Continuous Education - Wood Hacks S1:E9
Hey Friends! Are you taking the time to invest in your training? If not, in this latest episode of Wood Hacks, James reviews a few tips and and ideas related to keeping your skills sharp.
2D Wall Elevation Not working
This was working fine, now it is not. I have a simple Closet Drawn and wanted a 2d Elevation but the result is as attached and getting the dreadful "Unhandled exception" error also crashing Error.
Shaker door
Hi, We have an issue when we increase the rail size on this subassembly where we lose the insert panel? Must be a bug in the code but not sure how to fix it
FEATURE REQUEST - Project Pane Information
I don't know if it would be helpful for anyone else but it would be great if we could show the category name in this little section. We use the company name for the category so it would be quite helpful to show that information at a quick glance!
Migrating From a Metric Library to Imperial
What would your process be? *** Migrate from Metric (V49.1) to Imperial(50.7). At one point in time it was decided(right , wrong, or indifferent) that we would set up our Library in Metric. We would like to now migrate to Imperial(Taking our build standards
Pulling single drw boxes from a product?
I have a 6 drw unit that I only need 3 complete drws from the entire unit. I sized the box to give the the correct drw size needed for a water damage project . Currently I am searching for parts and pieces I need in the processing center and only processing
Mulitpass tools - set different options to original tool
I have a multipass tool that uses my main compression cutter. However, I want this tool to have a slower feed and rotational speed to the original tool in the multipass tool. It has the options to change it however the resulting CIX file does not reflect
Rebuilding the products of a room from a processed work order??
Trying to backstep my process, I copied a room and made a lot of changes. For whatever reason my AutoCAD crashed. I restarted without any problems, but when I went back to the original room that I copied, all the products are missing in the product
Work Order Naming Convention
Now this is an old request of mine that has long been a little bugbear so I thought I would put it out there now and see if this is something that would benefit others as well or if it's just us! When processing an order, we work with 5 digit order numbers
Laguna Tools Smart Shop 2 versus ShopSabre Pro 408
I have spent A LOT of time picking out our first CNC router and have it narrowed down to 2; the Laguna Tools Smart Shop 2 and the ShopSabre Pro 408. From what I have gathered both are great machines with companies that have plenty of experience in the
Optimization Strategy
Have a project with a lot of small parts and it wants to place these on the edge of several panels, I don't want that as I tend to loose small parts at the edge or at least hope the operator is more careful. So I thought I would try the place small parts
Event log, logs too much stuff.
Not necessarily a problem, more of an annoyance but I just cleaned out 3.5gb of event logs from the database and noticed there is a lot of stuff we don't need in there. For the most part I like the event log but I feel like it's logging too much stuff.
Import Specification group
Hi We recently learned that we can import Specification group to project. So I changed our XML accordingly to import our options. The trouble we have, the importation work on the project specification groups and sometime, not always, it also overwrite
We Just Launched Our New Microsoft Teams Phone System!
Hi Friends, We are pleased to announce upgrades to our phone system within the Microsoft Teams Platform that will deliver a better calling experience and access to our worldwide network of support, service, and sales teams. We hope you love it and that
Troy Smith
It is with deep regret that I am letting you all know of the passing of my friend and coworker Troy Smith. Troy has worked at my family's company using MV for about 20 yrs (I am 31) . He was a frequent contributor to the MV forums. Troy has spent the
Streamline Process of Drawing Products from the Product List
The current process of drawing products from the Product List (Overdrive Pro) requires that you leave that interface, enter the Product Viewer interface, right-click on the desired product to draw, hover over two flyout menus, and click the desire option for the drawing. I realize that the current process offers more options than previous versions, but it now requires several more clicks than was necessary for those versions. Is there any way to streamline this process to make it less cumbersome?
Remove Construction Holes when Drawing Sections
Is there a way to remove the construction holes in a 2D section without choosing the option of drawing it only with minimal machining and shelf holes? I'd like to keep the 3d drawing that I base everything off of with Full Machining but I can't figure
Solid Model Analyzer - Grained Material
I created a few custom 3D products and the material is grained. I used Solid Model Analyzer to create the Microvellum products. And when I nest the parts, Microvellum optimizes the parts without considering the grain direction. I guess Solid Model Analyzer
error codes
does anyone know what error code 84051 means. looks like a boolean error but what causes it and why did my part disappear?
Copy a Specification Group when importing from xml
I have one Specification group in my template. When I import an XML project with multiple group of colors can we take the default specification group and copy it for every group of color I need? Thank you
Sheet set Not Publishing to Adobe PDF
I'm having an issue Publishing the sheet sets to Adobe PDF. I don't think this is an in house Tech Problem. Can Anyone from MV help me fix this? This is holding me up.
MATERIAL LISTS
is there a way to print a report that would show all the materials on one sheet for a given project/
Double Passing Dadoes
It was brought to my attention that the dado's started doing double passing in the most recent builds. I reverted back to Build 21.1.202.641 to see when this change was done. Is there anything I can do to revert to single pass routes when the dado width
Design Manufacturing Report
Hello, I have 2 reports the first Old Nesting Master G-Code and the second New Nesting master G-Code. In each there is a filter to choose which processing station (linkidprocessingstation). Now I have created 2 new processing stations and I would like
Full-time Wood Science Instructor at Northcentral Technical College (Antigo, WI) at the Wood Technology Center of Excellence
We have been asked by the AWFS Education Committee to share this open position for full-time Wood Science instructor at Northcentral Technical College (Antigo, WI) at the Wood Technology Center of Excellence. Please pass it on! Here is the job posting:
FEATURE REQUEST: Updated Edit Material UI
The images below illustrate some enhancements I think could provide some clarity and eliminate any confusion, as well as help streamline the button order for editing materials. Simply removing "size" from the buttons for the sheet properties helps reduce
Specialty Angled Cabinet Help!!
Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can properly build this cabinet; its angled at the back 45 degrees, and has an angled front door. I've tried using transitional cabinets, and it seems not to work for angling the back, only the front.
Formula driven material sheet sizes
Hi. I have been working on adding formula driven materials so I have the ability to change materials through the project wizard. Just wondering how everyone tackles the different sheet lengths. Different sheet materials have different lengths but the
Drawing in 2D adds chairs....
Okay this is the weirdest thing I've ever seen happen in my life. We needed to add a rear toe kick notch and the next thing I know we have two chairs hanging out on the drawing. We actually can't even process this job, due to these things I assume. Has
Picture: contains a thumbnail graphic showing the purpose of the prompt.
I'm trying to add a picture that will show when a text box is selected. I have a JPG file and have added the file name to the control in the picture column, but it want show when the text box is selected. I cant workout where the JPG file needs to be
Product Rotate Formula
Is it possible to rotate a product using a formula? I've looked through the spreadsheets but have found nothing!
Spec Group Prompt when new room created
It would be great if MV prompted you / asked you which spec group you would like to use for each new room you started. I'm always going into Overdrive Pro (Product list) to change the products into the correct spec group once I realise that the incorrect
Cant section Upper and Lower Cases at the same time vertically?
Just wondering if I'm missing something besides marbles ....
Create new edgebanding
I would like to be able to add a project level edgebanging from edit design data .I can create a project level material when in edit design data by right clicking a material and clicking on change material then clicking on the create new material button.
Change the term "Room" throughout the software
The term "Room" only works for a small subset of shops. If you're making furniture, store fixtures, etc. this falls apart - you can't put a "Room" into an actual room. Yes you can change it in the options but it doesn't change everywhere and is confusing
2D Drawing Instructions (Part 4) - Wood Hacks S1:E7
Hi Friends, In this episode of Wood Hacks, we continue with our mini series focused on automating 2D drawing instructions for shop drawings. This time, we review how to create drawing blocks that you can use in your drawings.
Edgeband for 0.75" and 1" material
When you are producing cabinets, are you using different material thickness? If so, are you ordering different widths of edgeband, or just ordering 1 size for all materials?
Machinery
We have been cutting boards with panel saws since 1995 and are now ready to invest in CNC. Any comments on what would be a good machine for us to get started with? We process +/- 200 sheets a week. Need something very reliable and easy to maintain
1 Drawer suspended
This drawer has 5/8" sides in the spreadsheet but draws as 1/2" sides. It's a buyout drawer. any Idea why this could be?
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