Creating your own door with a glass upper panel

[TravisKetron]

I am working on designing my own door with a glass upper. This is where I am at. I do not like that I can see these weird lines at that the doors are obviously different. So i have considered making my own doors- 1 with a secondary glass panel and 1 without. I am not quite sure how to do this. I tried to use a 3d solid and inlay another 3d solid but i think they are just sitting on one another and not allowing my upper glass panel to not be backed by the cabinet door frame, if that makes any sense. I am also interested in if my doors can be like “mitered corners” and not the rustic look of the face frames intersecting. 

 

TIA 

[JonathanK]

You are most of the way there with what you have.

• Draw out the stile and rails mitered exactly how you want, and draw panels (with the top being glass).
• Convert them all to 3D solids, and adjust appropriately in 3D view.
• When that's done, in your 3D view, go to File>Export>Export 3D Model (3DS).
• Save the model where you want to that will be easily accessible.
• From there, go to File>Import>Import 3D Symbol, and locate the symbol you just saved.
• In the dialog box that pops up, name the symbol whatever you want, and under Category, select "Cabinet Door/Drawer".
  • Make sure Add Symbol to Library is checked, as well as Show Advanced Options.
• In the Fixture Specification dialog box, the biggest thing here is to go to the 3D tab, rotate your symbol on the X Axis, and also go to the Advanced Sizing tab and set your stretch planes.

Find the door in your library, and place them on your cabinets.  Should work out good from there.