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          ShopBot Newsletter - April 2009     

Output from eCabinet Systems to your ShopBot

Just announced April 9 - In an effort to expand the general use of CNC by cabinet builders and furniture manufacturers and to broaden the concept of distributed production across the eCabinet system, Thermwood has taken the unusual and exciting step of making eCabinet production possible on ShopBot CNCs. eCabinets itself is free to professional woodworking shops. To be able to cut eCabinet projects, a ShopBot owner will need to purchase the eCabinet/ShopBot Link from Thermwood
> Read more at http://www.shopbottools.com/teds_report.htm

ShopBot's Stimulus Package ends April 15th

ShopBot has offered its own economic recovery package but the offer ends soon. Get $750 - $1000 Accessory Credit and additional business support with purchase of your new ShopBot if you order by April 15.
> Read more at http://www.shopbottools.com/stimulus_plan.htm

User Tip

Two ways to create a dished out area without 3D software:
1. Use the Extruder Tool [TE] in the control software. First make a line drawing of the profile of the shape you want to dish using PartWorks.Then bring it into the Extruder Tool. You can make a round or oval dish this way, and will have great control over the shape.
> Read about the extruder in ShopBot Labs at http://www.shopbottools.com/LabFiles/extrupdt.htm

2. S_DishDome.sbp will make a dish or a dome shape.Specify the parameters at the top of the file for things like radius, depth, and stepover of the dish/dome. To make it an oval shape, proportion in X or Y. To make it flatter, adjust the size relative to the radius. To make it dish shaped, tweak it off-center. We'll put this one in the sample files in future software releases. You can download this file from ShopBot Labs http://www.shopbottools.com/shopbot_labs.htm

Camp ShopBot on Commercial Millwork

Houston,TX Hosted by Hector Noriega with Grant Bailey on May 2.
According to Grant, "We will be looking at the business as a whole with CNC as an integral component Topics discussed and presented will include quoting, business planning,s oftware and CNC intergration. Time will be allotted for networking and there will be a live casework manufacturing demonstration. Local vendors and business owners will be present, coffee, snacks and lunch will be provided."
Contact Grant at gobailey@gmail.com

> Read more at http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/messages/11096/38332.html

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