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Mid-Stile Overlays are not being taken into account when calculating Drawer Front Widths.

Example:  2 Door 2 Drawer Base FF


 Library:  Component 50.3 / 50.7

 Library: Foundation 24.0722




The issue we are having is with the Drawer Front Left/Right Mid-Stile Overlays.  For example, when using a 2 Door 2 Drawer Base FF cabinet, the default is that Mid-Rails and Mid-Stiles are wider than the exterior perimeter Rails/Stiles to account for the overlay as well as the Gap between.  (If using 1.25 Overlay Hinges:  Perimeter Rails/Stiles could be 1.5” while the Mid- Rails/Stiles would then be set to 2.625 to make sure you have the same overlay as well as the proper gap between parts.)


In our case as well as with many people making Face Frame cabinets is that they want to use the same Rails/Stiles widths on the perimeter as well as the intermediates to keep things looking uniform. When doing this then the drawer front wants to overlay the Mid-Stile 1.25 on both sides to match the door overlays; but the mid-Stile is only 1.5” wide overall.  There doesn’t appear to be a Mid-Stile override that then does the math to take this into account. 


This means the fronts are wider than they should be an overlap each other by 1” and are not the correct size.  They really should be the same size as the doors below and line up with them having an 1/8 gap vertically between them. 


While the Foundation library is set up a little differently, I am seeing that the same issues occur there as well.    


Face Frame Layout





Showing basic elevation with hidden lines for face frame reference.




3D view showing the overlap





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