Doors & Drawer Fronts

In this section you will choose the door style you want on your cabinets in this job. Cabinet Solutions allows you a lot of flexibility in placing doors. You can place a different door styles on upper cabinets than on base cabinets and different styles on drawers. Later in this manual you will learn how to change the door style of any cabinet within a room or even change the door style of one particular opening in a cabinet. The door standard section allows you to enter the standards that control the production of the cut list for the door parts. Even if you do not build your own doors, you may want to set the sizes to the approximate size that your door company uses so your pictures will most closely represent what the customer will actually be getting.

To select a door style:

  1. Click on the button in standards labeled Doors + Drawer Fronts.
  2. In the window that opens, choose between Upper Doors, Base Doors or Drawer Fronts.
  3. Click on the "Basic Door Style" you want for the cabinets. The styles are as follows:
    • slab door with vertical grain
    • lab door with horizontal grain
    • square frame door
    • square frame miter door
    • square frame door with simple top arch
    • square frame door with simple top & bottom arch
    • square frame door with compound top arch
    • square frame door with compound top & bottom arch
  4. Select the "Panel Style" if you are using any of the frame doors:
    • glass (including mirrors)
    • raised
    • recessed
    • frame only (no panels)
    • one-piece recessed back (also called a back panel door)

Note: If you selected to use a "slab door" a check box and an entry field will appear that allow you to choose to use edging on the doors and to give that edging a thickness.

  1. "French Lites" is a term used to describe the divisions of the door panel. This is most commonly used with glass doors but in Cabinet Solutions you can divide wood panels also. Check the box if you want to divide your panel. Use the radio buttons below to set these divisions as structural (where you will have multiple panels within the door) or non-structural (which will just give you a single panel with decorative mullions over the top).

    Set wainscot if you wish divide the door into wainscot panels. Set the number of panels or lites to use in the edit field below in the dialog window. Click on the button labeled "Wainscot Standards" to set up the standards that Cabinet Solutions will use to build your wainscot doors.
  2. Use the "Material" button to set the material for the door frame and panel.
  3. Next, set the overlays to the right of the window. In face frame, the overlays are referenced to face frame pieces. In Euro, the overlays are referenced by location. It is important that you set your overlays correctly because Cabinet Solutions uses them to determine your door sizes.
    • over top rail (top most)
    • over bottom rail (bottom most)
    • over left stile (left most)
    • over right stile (right most)
    • top over center rail (horizontal)
    • bottom over center rail (horizontal)
    • left over mullion (vertical)
    • right over mullion (vertical)
  4. Next, click on the button labeled "Knobs/Pulls" to set up the placement of knobs or pulls that Cabinet Solutions will use to place on your doors and drawer-fronts.
  5. Next, click on the button labeled "Other Standards" to set up the standards that Cabinet Solutions will use to build your doors.