Tutorial: How to Use Slab Molding on Doors & Drawer Fronts

Tutorial: How to Use Slab Molding on Doors & Drawer Fronts

This video explains and demonstrates how to use slab moldings on doors and drawer fronts. This includes the use of a molding applied to the face of the door panel and a molding that is a perimeter part.


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  1. Definitions of different types of slab moldings?  (begin – 00:12)
  2. How to view various door molding options. (begin – 00:30)
  3. How to add & modify moldings (begin – 01:42)
    4. Spreadsheet parts that contain “AM” in the name apply to moldings in the Stile and Rail Doors, but not to the door moldings we are currently discussing.
  4. DRAWMOLDING token description (begin – 04:02)  
  5. Default library data does not contain molding length part for cutlisting (linear foot value on reports). (begin – 06:19)
  6. Slab molding lookup tables. (begin – 06:52)
  7. Viewing molding profiles and resulting part. (begin – 09:42)

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