Trouble modeling a cabinet door

Dave R · 3 Apr 2013, 17:28

That looks pretty cool for the kitchen cabinet guys. Will it work with user selected units in SketchUp?

Garry K · 3 Apr 2013, 18:23

So far just mm - but that isn't hard to modify.

The calling function is this:

do_make_door( cab, lyr, pnl, pt_1, pt_2, pivot, number, arch, stile, pth, rotate )

Args:

To maintain proper naming I number each cabinet (cab)
lyr is which layer you want it to be on. The current layer only changes if it is already setup
pnl is panel type: Door, Drawer, Glass or Mirror
pt_1 is the lower left hand corner of the component ( in mm )
pt_2 contains width, thickness and height ( in mm )
pivot can be [0,0,0] it is useful for the cabinet drawing part of the software where you might have 2 angled doors - so you want to maintain a single pivot point.
To help maintain proper naming number should be incremented for each door on a single cabinet.
arch: -2,-1,0,1,2,3,4 so far these represent Plain Panel, Square Shaker, Square, Arch, Double Arch, Cathedral and Double Cathedral.
stile is the width of the stile in mm ( not including the bead )
Panel thickness. If the panel is the same thickness as the stiles and rails then it is shaped on front and on the back. If the panel is 4 mm thinner than the stiles and rails then it is shaped on the front only. And if it is < 7 mm thick then it only has the bead ( represents a plywood panel.
Rotate is how much you want to rotate the door ( counter clockwise )

You need to experiment a bit with very narrow doors. Of course a plain panel can be virtualy any size. A Square shaker with 50 mm stiles could be as narrow as 100 mm - but why would you do that. I can work with cathedrals as narrow as 225.

So any size that you need.

Garry K · 3 Apr 2013, 21:07

After re reading - I don't believe that I have been clear enough.

In the Sketchup program you can select a path - in this case a line and then use followme tool.

This is the code that works ( but only if a face ). I've tried to create just a path but the followme looks like it only works with a face.

face = grp.entities().add_face( p )
face.reverse!() if( face.normal.dot( Y_AXIS ) < 0 )

fc = []

fc << [ 0, 2.35, y ]
fc << [ 1.962258, 2.660791, 40 ]
fc << [ 3.732436, 3.562742, 40 ]
fc << [ 5.137258, 4.967564, 40 ]
fc << [ 6.039209, 6.737742, 40 ]
fc << [ 6.35, 8.7, 40 ]
fc << [ 0, 8.7, 40 ]

cutter = grp.entities().add_face( fc )
cutter.followme( face.edges )

Garry K · 6 Apr 2013, 18:48

@dave r said:

That looks pretty cool for the kitchen cabinet guys. Will it work with user selected units in SketchUp?

Dave, I am working on a inputbox for the door generator. You say user selected units. Is there a way to determine what they are?

Another option I thought of is putting in 2 menu items

Cabinet Door - Metric
Cabinet Door - Imperial

The one ruby script for the door menu is a simple .rb file. The other file is .rbs

Do you know of anyone being able to lock down a licence for plugins or is selling them hit and miss based solely on the honor system?

Garry K · 7 Apr 2013, 21:25

I have finished the tool interface for the cabinet door maker. It honors the model units.

Once the user clicks OK - the cursor changes to this

As the user moves the cursor the x,y and z measurements are shown ( from origin )
The user can add as many doors as they want - or choose the tool again to change sizes etc.

I set up a hot key - 'D' wasn't being used so I figured it works for me for 'D'oor

The forms have default values assigned at startup - but remembers the users settings between form changes.

Is anyone interested in testing this tool out?

Garry K · 19 Apr 2013, 21:22

This tool is now available.

There is a zip file called DoorMaker.zip on the download page of my website http://www.CabMaker32.com

There is one file that goes into the plugins folder - GKWare_CabMaker_Ext.rb
There needs to be folders starting with GKWare under plugins.

There is a pdf file in the GKWare\CabMaker folder called DoorMaker.Pdf - it has a few pages and a number of screen shots.

You can turn on or off the tool from within preferences\extensions
There is a button - View\ToolBars\GKWare\Door Maker Toolbar

You can add / modify defaults and or textures.

Dave R · 19 Apr 2013, 21:25

Thanks Garry. I'm going to take a look this weekend.

mics_54 · 20 Apr 2013, 01:30

wow

Garry K · 24 Apr 2013, 22:02

Dave,

Have you had a chance to look at the door maker?

Garry

Dave R · 24 Apr 2013, 22:11

Hi Garry.

I'm sorry. I haven't yet. I looked at the site but I haven't downloaded the trial yet. I'll try to this evening.

Garry K · 1 May 2013, 23:29

Dave,

I hate to be a pest - but it has been another week. The good news is that I've been working on a cutting list panel optimizer - which is almost ready.

Garry

Dave R · 1 May 2013, 23:36

Sorry Garry, between my day job, the second job and trying to manage family life, I've not gotten to it yet. I'll try.

Garry K · 2 May 2013, 00:57

Dave,

I really appreciate it. I am so looking forward to your critic!

Garry

Garry K · 9 May 2013, 14:43

I've noticed that there have been quite a few downloads of the door maker plugin.

I would really appreciate feedback - what works, what doesn't, what you like, what you dislike, what you would like to see changed etc.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Garry K · 20 May 2013, 17:15

The CutMasterPro panel optimizer is now available for download on the web site. CabMaker32.com

Please try it out and give me your comments.

timinder · 27 Jun 2013, 07:34

Any chance that the Door Maker plugin could be made to work with Mac OS please?

Garry K · 27 Jun 2013, 08:57

What is the problem? Is it the Zip file or something else?

timinder · 28 Jun 2013, 13:48

The zip's fine, but the various scripts seem to be calling for things form a Windows file structure, i.e. C:xxx which don't exist in the Mac OS. I did have a look to see if I could re-configure them to point to the correct file locations, but it didn't work for some reason (probably because I'm doing it wrong!)

TIG · 28 Jun 2013, 14:09

@timinder said:

The zip's fine, but the various scripts seem to be calling for things form a Windows file structure, i.e. C:xxx which don't exist in the Mac OS. I did have a look to see if I could re-configure them to point to the correct file locations, but it didn't work for some reason (probably because I'm doing it wrong!)
The zipped 'Door Maker' is not set up for ease of installation as its file and folder of files/subfolders are both shipped within an unnecessary 'Sketchup' folder - so the 'GKWare_CabMaker_Ext.rb' file and the 'GKWare' folder need moving from there into the usual 'Plugins' folder by hand !
The plugin itself seems to be made so that it finds the path for its textures from reading the '_TextureLocation.txt' file within the 'GKWare/CabMaker' subfolder.
This file defaults to: "C:/Users/Public/Documents/CabMaker32/Textures"
BUT I'd expect that you could edit that file to include any valid folder path to suit yourself/OS - PC or MAC...
Try it...

I can see no other references to 'C:/...' in the readable code other than the textures' folder path...

This toolset does have some encrypted rbs files so we can't be sure what happens inside those !

Garry K · 28 Jun 2013, 16:38

The DoorMaker.pdf file explains what the 3 files that start with _ are for.
They are not in effect with the _
If you want to use them then rename them by removing the _

You should be able to just unzip and move all the files under plugins

The purpose of the _texturelocation.txt file was if you have CabMaker32 installed - a windows only cabinet making software, or if you are running multiple versions of Sketchup. This allows you to have 1 copy of textures at around 50 megs rather than many copies.

I will look into the encrypted files for file references.