Door & Drawer Fronts - Other Standards

Explanation of Each Door Standard:

  • Frame Thickness: Enter the thickness of the door frame.
  • Panel Thickness: Enter the thickness of the door panel.

The following 4 standards for left & right stile and top & bottom rail widths should be given finished sizes. If you cut these pieces oversize and then trim small amounts off when the panel groove is cut and the edge detail is put on, there will be other standards to use to enter that information so your cut-list is correct.

  • Left Stile Width: Enter the finished width of the left stile.
  • Right Stile Width: Enter the finished width of the right stile.
  • Top Rail Width: Enter the finished width of the top rail.
  • Bottom Rail Width: Enter the finished width of the bottom rail.
  • Arch Depth: Enter the depth you cut into your top rail if you are using a door stile that has an arched top here.
  • Panel Size Less: Enter the amount you want to subtract off your panels to allow for expansion and contraction here.
  • Groove Depth: Enter the depth you cut the groove in your stiles and rails to receive the panel here. You may refer to this cut as a "cope" depth.
  • Amount Trimmed-Off with Groove: Enter the amount you will trim off your stiles / rails when you run your groove for your panel.
  • Amount Trimmed-Off with Edge Detail: Enter the amount you will trim off your stiles rails when you run your edge detail on your doors.
  • Gap Between a Door Pair: Enter the size of gap you want between a pair of doors here. (That is 2 doors that cover 1 opening.)
  • Add Center Rail When Height >: Doors panels will often bow if they get too large in size. To help eliminate this problem, many shops want to add a center rail into the door if the door exceeds a certain size. Enter the size of door that when exceeded you want the program to automatically place a center rail.
  • Center Rail Width: Enter the width you want the center rails to be when the program adds them here.
  • French Lite Center Rail Width: Enter the width you want the center rails (horizontal face frame piece) to be when you are adding "French Lites".
  • French Lite Mullion Width: Enter the width you want the mullions (vertical frame piece) to be when you are adding "French Lites".
  • French Lite Thickness: Enter the thickness of the French Lite parts.

Center Rail Style

Earlier you set a standard to add a center rail when a door gets to a certain size. This section will control how that added center rail will be cut. You may be arching your top or bottom rail. Do you want an arch cut in the center rail? Do you want it arched for the bottom panel only or both the top and bottom panels?

  • No Arches: This option will always put a straight center rail in your doors.
  • Arch Top Edge Only: This option will cut an arch in the top side of the center rail.
  • Arch Bottom Edge Only: This option will cut an arch in the bottom side of the center rail.
  • Arch Top and Bottom Edges: This option will cut an arch in the top and bottom side of the center rail.