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Raised Panel Door Calculator

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I wrote a raised panel door calculator using Excel. I included detailed graphics and calculations. I have been told by my woodworking friends that it is an EXCELLENT spreadsheet that is very clear and simple to use. This raised panel door calculator is a Microsoft Excel file that will take any size cabinet opening and automatically calculate the overall door size, all individual door part sizes and the required board feet. It calculates three types of doors, single doors, single doors with double panels and double doors.

I would like to share my work with the forum but I am unclear as to how I can do this? I do not want to give out my e-mail address to folks I do not know. Any suggestions?

Jerry
 

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I for one would love to have a copy of it, but I understand your reluctance to pass your email addy around. Maybe you could open a gmail email account to use for incoming inquiries. If you post it, be sure to use dot instead of ., c o m instead of com, etc. to thwart the spammers.
 
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you could host in on google documents and share the link they give for the document. That shouldn't share your email address with those viewing it, and you can make it so others can view the document, but not save it. If they want, they could save it to their computer as well.
 
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I tried the link - you need to be a registered googlehead in order to download it. OK for me, but not, I suspect, for everyone.
When I want to share documents rather than pictures I use…
http://www.4shared.com/
Oh, and
http://tinyurl.com/
would let you make that massive massive url into a small one - one that you can remember even!

(Ah, and the instructions say "A5 & B5" - should be "A6 & B6")
 
#15 ·
That is really nice of you guys to do that. Too bad I don't make raised panel doors. Maybe now that you have all the work done, maybe I shouid start planning something that needs them ;-)) i'm going to favorite this just in case.
 
#18 ·
Jerry & Pawky,
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate the effort that went into the creation and listing of this wonderful spreadsheet.
New kitchen cabinets are on my list. I think this will be a big help.
I have a question.
I want to make cathedral style panels for my doors.
If I use the thinnest part of the rail as my rail width, I think that that would work for defining
my panel dimensions. Do you think that that would work?
Thanks again for your effort.

Jim
 
#19 · (Edited by Moderator)
I considered making a tab for arched doors but the only difference between a regular door and an arched door is the width of the upper rail…all other parts have the same dimentions. I am not an expert here by any means but it seems to me that the upper rail on arched doors is somewhere between 3 ¼ to 4 ¼ inches wide depending on the significance of the arch. I suppose it could be even wider for an even more dramatic arch.

After cutting out the arched pattern from the upper rail, the thinnest part of the upper rail should still be 2 ¼ inches wide. The panel dimensions will be the same as a regular door but you will end up with more waste cutting out the arch.

The calculator can be used for arched doors. Once you get all your dimensions… simply increase the width of the upper rail to accommodate the arch that you desire.
 
#25 ·
Looks fine but WOODSHOP CALCULATOR Cabinet Door Software, WoodshopCalc.com available for only about $25 or less (IIRC) from Rockler and most stores appears similar but far greater capabilities - double doors, project doors, , and is a full run time Windows application, seven stile patterns and more. No offense intended.
 
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