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How can you make, a one piece, mdf or slab door, open for glass? short of going into the part editor and drawing each door.
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Use a cabinet part (the back is convenient), make your part editor cuts in it - two rectangles, one inside the other - cut the inner rectangle thru, and the outer rectangle 1/4" deep or so. Then take it to the constraint manager and constrain it to the dimensions you need. Save it, and use it as a seed.
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Thanks Jeremy
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If you go into the door editor, then to the GENERAL tab, there is a check box to have a frame only, another to add glass and an area to add mullions.
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Thanks Leo, But it looks like that only applies if you are using Conestoga Doors
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Ok so I'm trying to create a basic shaker door cut for glass. The door & drawer creator doesn't seem to want to cooperate. Any suggestions?
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How's it not cooperating?
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Just so everyone is on the same page...

When discussing "How to make 'glass doors'...?", one has to specify if one's aim is "For display purposes within eCabinet Systems only" or you need to be able to "Send MDF 'glass' doors to the machine to be cut".
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In my case, I want both.
My last adventure, I cut solid doors and them used Aspire, to cut the glass opening and the rebates.
Very pron. to making errors.
On my doors I needed a flip operation
as I profile the glass opening edge, in addition to rebating, the back for glass
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Sorry, I'm out. I can tell you how to make them show up in the program for the rendering but I can't tell you what to do to get them to the machine. Good luck. :beer:
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Unfortunately Will it can't be done until they give us the option to make part edits on doors and save them off to a library so they can be applied on a global level. Been asking for that for well over 10 years. What I've been doing is taking my door list and create a batch file in the same job using the modified cabinet back such as Jeremy posted. Total pain in the butt and mistakes can happen but it's the only workaround we have.

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