Custom Cabinet Doors and Bounding Box Wonk

[MollyNDG]

Hi all,

I’ve been using custom countertops with moldings to build cabinet door profiles, then dropping those in as side panel - inset on wall cabinets (shoutout to @MarkMc for this concept, it's great). It works perfectly for most of my custom doors.

Every now and then though, I need an inset door with a face frame bead, and I’m trying to fold that into the same setup.

What I’m attempting:

• Add another molding to the countertop
• Offset it to account for the cabinet face frame

I can get it to work for a specific cabinet size by tweaking the bounding box spacing, but as soon as the cabinet size changes, things go sideways—the panel stretches oddly and the proportions get thrown off.

So I’m guessing I’m missing something about how bounding box spacing or sizing planes are behaving here.

Anyone have a good way to make this setup truly dynamic, so the inset panel and bead stay consistent when the cabinet resizes?

Appreciate any ideas—thanks!

FACE FRAME BEAD TEST DOOR.calibz WORKING 2.0.plan

[MarkMc]

To control the proportions as the size change you need to use stretch ZONES not the bounding box. Zones are set at two points, stretching will only happen between those points. Check in the help.

A number of years agon several of us attempted to do beaded inset cabinets making the beads part of the door. We abandoned that as too many separate doors were needed. After a lot of work I eventually developed a system for beaded inset that works with any door. The beads are not part of the door symbol but become part of the cabinet. I sell those plans. 

I won't be replying to this for a bit, have to take my wife to cardiac rehab tomorrow.

[GeneDavis]

Here is a 5-piece door I made with solids for the perimeter and a countertop with perimeter molding for the center.  The molding emulates a 30 degree cope/stick detail.  The kitchen in the pic also has this detail for all the lower drawerfronts, with a separate symbol used for those.  See the stretch zones?  I included a catalog cut from Walzcraft to show what I used as a reference, the cut showing one of their many many door profiles.

[MollyNDG]

13 hours ago, MarkMc said:

To control the proportions as the size change you need to use stretch ZONES not the bounding box. Zones are set at two points, stretching will only happen between those points. Check in the help.

I have tried to use the stretch zones to the same affect. I believe the issue is from the combination of using the stretch planes or zones and setting bounding box spacing to something other than 0". The bounding box spacing has to be set at something else in order to push the face frame bead out beyond the stiles/rails of the cabinet doors.

 

3 hours ago, GeneDavis said:

Here is a 5-piece door I made with solids for the perimeter and a countertop with perimeter molding for the center.  The molding emulates a 30 degree cope/stick detail.  The kitchen in the pic also has this detail for all the lower drawerfronts, with a separate symbol used for those.  See the stretch zones?  I included a catalog cut from Walzcraft to show what I used as a reference, the cut showing one of their many many door profiles.

I prefer not to use solids for the stiles/frames because the wall cabinet system allows for material UV mapping to remain accurate, whereas with solids you have to use two materials just for the frame of the door and rotate one for correct orientation. It also allows for a very quick system that I can make custom doors extremely quickly with, which is something I need to do regularly as we specialize in cabinetry. Again, stretch zones vs. planes does not seem to be the solution here due to the need for different bounding box spacing.