Cabinet hinges on the 32 mm system: where every hole goes

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The spoken text of the video, per chapter.

Why doors hang crooked0:00

Doors that hang crooked are almost never the hinge's fault. They are the holes. In this video we put the hinges of a two-door cabinet on the 32 millimetre system, and let cutlistlab work out where every hole goes.

The cabinet: two doors0:14

We start with a cabinet with doors, thirty five and a half wide and six and a half feet tall. Two doors side by side, each with its own row of hinges. This is what every kitchen cabinet and every wardrobe looks like.

Switch on the 32 mm hole row0:29

Here is the 32 millimetre hole row. Switch it on and something happens right away: the adjustable shelves move to the nearest hole. The app tells you how many shelves moved and by how much. From now on every shelf sits on a real hole, not on a nice round number.

First hole, row and cup distance K0:48

Three numbers fix the whole row. First hole: how high the lowest hole sits above the bottom. Row from front edge: how far the row sits from the front, thirty seven millimetres by default, just under one and a half inches. And K, the cup distance: how far the cup sits from the edge of the door. Tap the i and you see the bottom corner of the side from the inside, with the subject of that field highlighted in amber.

K follows from the overlay1:19

K is not a free choice. It follows from how much your door overlaps the cabinet, and that depends on the gap size. Make the gap wider and watch K: it follows. A door that overlaps more needs a different cup distance than one that overlaps less, and with the wrong K your door will not close, or it hits its neighbour.

Number of hinges per door1:43

The number of hinges is set to Auto. That follows the Blum and Hettich tables: the taller and heavier the door, the more hinges. A door of almost six and a half feet gets four. If you want more, you set the number yourself.

Hinge positions and shelves1:59

Under Hinge positions you get, per hinge, the hole number in the row and its height. If a hinge lands exactly where a fixed shelf sits, cutlistlab moves it one hole and tells you which hinge of which door it is. From that message you jump straight to that door.

The drawing: watch the mirroring2:17

The drawing shows both sides: the row in the side panel seen from the inside, and the cups in the door seen from the back. Watch the mirroring. A left door and a right door are not two identical parts, and that is the mistake you only notice once the holes are drilled.

What do I need2:36

In What do I need the hinges are already counted, with the type: full overlay, half overlay or inset. Each hinge needs a mounting plate. The i button says what to ask for in the shop and what to look out for.

The drilling plan in the build manual2:52

And then the part this was all about. The build manual gives a drilling plan per part. The door from the back, with the cup holes dimensioned from the hinge edge. The side from the inside, with the whole row and the mounting plates in it. Every hole has its own shape, so a five millimetre shelf pin hole never looks like a thirty five millimetre cup.

Tip: one jig, one reference3:14

A tip from the workshop: drill the row in both sides with the same jig, and always set it against the same reference: the bottom edge and the front edge. Write L or R and 'front' on the inside of each panel first. Then the holes on the left and right are guaranteed to sit at the same height.

Next video: drawers3:33

One row of holes at 32 millimetres carries your shelves, your hinges and soon your drawer slides. In the next video we put the drawers in. Open cutlistlab.com, pick Cabinet designer and switch the hole row on.