Allow for Drawer fronts to be grouped so they optimise with the grain flowing across them

John Palmer

March 13, 2020 22:05 Edited

Let's say you have 2 drawers (horizontally or vertically next to each other) and you are using a grained board.

In order to make sure a grain flows correctly, you need the drawers placed vertically next to each other on the optimisation layout.

For example, say you have the following two drawer fronts

When optimising if the optimiser could handle both panels (Based on Link Placement of whether they are next to each other vertically or horizontally and then when generate the optimisation make sure they are grouped next to each other.

In this situation they would need to be vertically linked. On an optimisation layout diagram it would draw it something like this...

 

 

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  AbuAli

  August 09, 2020 11:25

  I had this issue.. I had to create a separate project, and panels for it,.

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  Merlijn Toussaint

  June 05, 2025 06:31

  I too am going to be very happy to see that feature added

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  AbuAli

  June 05, 2025 13:15

  I solved it by making all the drawer 1- piece ( meaning I combined them first and taking into consideration the saw blade, and some waste) and then later one cut them to equal lengths.

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