Minimum Increment for door size?

Bev Brown · Post by **Bev Brown** » Wed, Sep 26 2007, 12:39PM

Hi,
I have a cabinet 800mm wide with two doors and my clearances are set to 2.5 mm on the sides and between the doors for a total deduction of 7.5, which should make two doors 396.25mm wide. The doors generated are 396.88 instead, and I can't find where to adjust the minimum increment which is stated as being .79mm.
Any idea how I can fix this problem?
Thanks very much,
Bev Brown

Kerry Fullington · Post by **Kerry Fullington** » Wed, Sep 26 2007, 7:00PM

Bev,
Post your cabinet.
When I tried it I got two doors 396.25mm.

Kerry

Bev Brown · Post by **Bev Brown** » Thu, Sep 27 2007, 11:09AM

Hi Kerry,
Here is the cabinet I was having trouble with. When I had it in the cab editor I changed my standard clearances of 1.25mm on the hinge sides (for a situation of cabinets either side) to clearances of 2.5mm for Finished Ends each side.
The solution appears to be selecting \"Build in house\" instead of \"Purchase Unfinished\" in the door creation area in the Cabinet Editor.
Should I be saving every possibility of what's beside the cabinet as a separate cabinet?

Thanks,

Bev Brown

Kerry Fullington · Post by **Kerry Fullington** » Thu, Sep 27 2007, 12:14PM

Bev,

You found the problem. Choosing Purchased Unfinished causes the doors to round to Conestoga Specs. Build In House uses the exact measurement.

Kerry

Michael Yeargain · Post by **Michael Yeargain** » Thu, Sep 27 2007, 5:24PM

Bev Brown,

You shouldn't have to design the cabinets according to what is to the sides of them. There is a \"Perimeter Machining Allowance\" you can adjust in the \"Detail for Cut List\" within the Door and Drawer Front designer.

Bev Brown · Post by **Bev Brown** » Sat, Sep 29 2007, 9:29AM

Thanks Michael I will give it a look

Michael Yeargain · Post by **Michael Yeargain** » Sat, Sep 29 2007, 11:53AM

Bev,

As Kerry mentioned \"Purchased Unfinished causes the doors to round to Conestoga Specs. Build In House uses the exact measurement.\" This is a machining allowance that will allow you to sand the doors while maintaining integrity of the door size when you purchase these doors from Conastoga.

Gene Davis · Post by **Gene Davis** » Sat, Sep 29 2007, 12:06PM

Edge reveals that change from CAB ADJACENT WITH HALF-REVEAL, to PANEL ADJACENT . . . USE FULL REVEAL. All dependent on what is happening R and L.

Yeah, sure. Don't we all wish. Maybe in some future build, but not here now.

I want 3mm reveals everywhere (frameless cabinetry) and so I need to have three versions of every cab in my library.

1. One for cabs both sides adjacent. Edge reveals all 1.5mm.
2. One for panel-cab-cab. Edge reveals 3mm L, 1.5mm R.
3. One for cab-cab-panel. Edge reveals 1.5mm L, 3mm R.

Either that, or go into cab editor to do the unequals when needed.

Michael Yeargain · Post by **Michael Yeargain** » Sat, Sep 29 2007, 12:15PM

Gene Davis

Now I understand. In that respect you will have to have the revisions. I do frame-less cabinets, but I have never used the different reveals such as you use. Maybe I should. But I don't. I have never had any complaints and for whatever it's worth unless it is a contemporary cabinetry I don't see the need to be that critical. But then again maybe I should.

At the same time, each cabinet revision can be done relatively quickly. You may also still consider doing them on the fly. But it all depends on you and the way you set up your directoryies.