You 'must check out' the new tooling from Onsrud for solid MDF raised panel doors. I bought all of the tooling in this series (47-00) and it works beautifully! Once I got the tooling profiles entered into VC everything just fell together. I ran these 4 door panels today which took about an hour to run and 1/2 sheet of 3/4 thk. MDF. I'm going to replace the existing door panels on my set of overhead cabinets in the shop and let them be a show case.

If you get the whole series of bits that Onsrud offers, you can do 12 different design combinations...and even more if you start playing around with depths of cut.

These bits and VC will put you into the cabinet door making business real quick.

Thought I would share....

Tony...Brian. Thanks again!

Hello
Dam that some mighty fine doors.
Nice work.
Regards
Bart

Hi Dave,




Thank you for posting the images - we really do get a kick out of seeing what people do with the programs - the doors look very cool

Happy New Year

Brian

Not that I couldn't enter them... but since you have the profiles could you be so nice as to post them for us?

Thanks,

Very cool, I looked at the onsrud site and found the series, not a bad way to spend 500 bucks hehehe. I would be very interested in a couple of things if you wouldn't mind.

The pics of the bits on the onsrud site are not great for comparing the bits and the differences in their profiles. Could you take a few pics of them side by side? Could you upload the crv of the doors so we could watch the simulations? The profiles would also be a nice thing to have.

Onsrud Series 47-00 https://www.onsrud.com/xpost

Yea, I found their pictures were not a great amount of help too...so I contacted Onsrud and they sent me a PDF that shows the details of the bits. I'm including it here as well as my profiles for VCP.

Below are pics of one of the doors I got from the run. As you can see they turned out pretty good.

Btw, these bits 'plow' through the MDF like it was butter. I set the feeds based on Onsrud's formula using their chip load data for the bits so I feel they are running at optimum.

Also, I'm uploading the CRV file if anyone wants to play around with it on their own as well as the profiles I created in eps format.

The PDF file will show you the profiles in detail. All of the tool profile data are located in the ZIP file. This will be in the next post as this post already has 3 attachments...

Here are the tool profiles for the Onsrud MDF door panel tooling.


Enjoy!

Dave Thanks so much, that was very kind of you.

So when you cut the doors in MDF, do you then paint them or what?

Yes, for my personal doors, in fact I just sprayed on the primer/sealer on all four doors after having machined the hinge pockets on the back sides.

Once this has dried, I'll lightly sand, detack and then spray with a high-gloss white epoxy enamel paint.

For the customer...they are responsible for their own finishing.

I can supply similiar MDF carbide tipped bits from Southeast Tool for much less, $250 plus shipping (US only) for a set of the 5 bits. You use one of the smaller dia. bits for the stiles along with one of the larger profiles for the panels to get the desired shape.
http://www.southeasttool.com/catalog/page37.html
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Neal

Hey Neal, I may just have to try you out on the next round. Looks like you've got whats needed..and like you say... cheaper.

You're not that far from me either...~ 2 hrs drive.

See ya and thanks.

Yep I may have to put together and order aswell.

They look great Dave.
I am looking at buying a small door manufactureing company that uses a DOS ver of Generic Cad for the drawings.
What did you use to draw the doors with? VCP can't dimention so how would you change the door size? Redraw it?
The tool pathing in VCP looks like it works out very well. I have only done carving with VCP and didn't realize it could do pocketing.
Thanks for the education.

Roger

Thanks woodcrafter.

I use CorelDraw to do my 2D design work. I also do the layout on the sheet that it is to be cut from in CD also. Once the design is completed, I export it as EPS and then bring it into VCP. From there it is mostly assigning tools to vectors and generating the toolpaths.

Works really well. No need to do any dimensioning within VCP. The way I look at is this....VCP is a toolpather and a very clever and versatile one, CorelDraw is a designing package. CorelDraw isn't the only software program out there that will work. AutoCad, Rhino, and many others will do just fine. Just use the one your comfortable with.

Hope this helps.