Door Profiles

CabinetSense has the ability to machine MDF doors, drawer fronts and panels. Each of these components has an attribute available for you to specify the door profile to machine.

You can also specify the Door Profile template to use in the Project Component. The template specified in the project will be used for all components that do not specify their own profile to use.

How it works

The machining for MDF doors duplicates the 5 piece door that was defined in the model. The stile and rail widths, # rows and columns are all replicated in the machining. Because these are MDF doors, they must be machined out of slab style doors.

In order to tell CabinetSense that you want to produce MDF doors instead actual 5-piece or Slab doors, you must render your profiles before exporting your data. CabinetSense looks to see if rendering is on and will produce MDF doors for you. any associated machining that you have defined for the profile will be automatically added to the CNC export.

Important

Rendering your profiles are a snapshot in time and will only reflect the settings that were in place at the time of rendering. If you make changes after that, your rendered images will not be correct... and more importantly, your exported MDF doors will not be correct either.

The best way of ensuring that your export will be correct is to render your doors immediately prior to exporting your data. This ensures that any changes you have made are reflected in the latest rendering.

Door Machining

1. Layer Name: The layer name that this set of machining instructions will be given in DXF export file
2. Machining Face: Choices are:
• Front and
• Back.
1. Reference: Choices are:
   • Door Perimeter: The path that will be created is based on the perimeter of the door.
   • Each Panel: The path that will be created is based on the perimeter of the panel. If your door as 3 panels, a path will be created for the perimeter of each of the three panels.
   • Handle Edge: The path created will be positioned on the door edge that has the handle. The rectangle will have the width specified in the Box Width attribute and the lenght will be oversized by 1/2 the box width on each side of the door.

1. Offset: Offsets allow you to generate paths that are larger (positive offset) or smaller (negative offset) than actual size generated based on your Reference (see above).
2. Depth: Specifies the depth that you want to rout the profile. enter 99999 if you want to rout completely through the part.