How to Add Automatic Molding in Mozaik – Phill Anton Consulting

In Mozaik, add crown, ceiling, and toe molding to an entire job at once using the Automatic Molding feature in the lower-right of the workspace. Open it, pick the molding profiles from your libraries, choose where they go (ceiling molding, molding on top of wall cabinets, and toe skins), confirm your material, and click OK — Mozaik places everything automatically based on your saved molding settings.

This guide follows Mozaik's official walkthrough. Watch the original on Mozaik's channel:

What Automatic Molding does

Instead of placing each piece of crown and toe by hand, Automatic Molding adds molding across the whole job in one pass. It pulls from your molding settings and your molding libraries, so the placement and behavior follow the standards you've already set up rather than something you have to dial in every time.

Step 1 — Check your molding settings first

Automatic Molding reads from your molding settings, so it's worth confirming those before you place anything. The setting to watch is the elevation offset for your crown molding.

In the demo, the crown molding's elevation offset is set to -1, which drops the crown molding one inch down from the top of the wall cabinets.
Other molding standards were left at zero.

The takeaway: whatever you set here is what the automatic placement will follow, so set your offsets the way you want them before running the feature.

Step 2 — Clear out old molding (optional, for a clean start)

If you want a clean result, delete any existing moldings and toe skins on the job first. Pop into the 3D viewer to confirm the job is bare — no crown, no wall molding, no toe skins — before you let Mozaik place the new set.

Step 3 — Open Automatic Molding and pick your profiles

Find Automatic Molding in the lower-right of the workspace and open it. From here you choose your molding from your libraries:

Ceiling molding — select the ceiling-molding library and pick the profile you want (in the demo, profile c93).
Molding on top of wall cabinets — turn this on to run molding along the tops of the wall cabinets.
Toe skin — check the toe-skin option to add a toe skin to the bottoms of the cabinets.

You can mix these as needed — ceiling molding, top-of-cabinet crown, and toe skins can all be added in the same pass.

Step 4 — Set the molding material

Each molding has a default material you can change before placing.

In the demo, the crown molding defaulted to Poplar.
You can switch this to other options, and Mozaik will pull pricing from the associated pricing template.

Heads-up on pricing: if you haven't set up pricing for a particular molding (the demo hadn't set up ceiling-molding pricing yet), you'll need to handle that in your molding library. The Automatic Molding dialog places the parts; the pricing lives in the library.

Step 5 — Place it and verify in 3D

Click OK to place the ceiling molding, the crown molding on the wall cabinets, and the toe skins. Open the 3D viewer to check the result. You should see:

Ceiling molding in place.
Crown molding on the tops of the wall cabinets, dropped down the amount set by your elevation offset (one inch, in the demo).
A toe skin along the bottoms of the cabinets (clear the floor in the viewer to see the toe skin clearly).

Why a crown piece might not return to the wall

A common gotcha: crown molding returns (wraps to the back wall) on one cabinet but not the one next to it. This is tied to finished ends, not the molding feature itself.

In the demo, two adjacent wall cabinets behaved differently:

One cabinet had a finished end on the exposed side, so its crown molding returned to the back wall.
The neighboring cabinet had no finished end on that side, so the crown did not return there.

If a return is missing, it's usually because that cabinet's exposed end isn't set as a finished end.

How to edit or fix a placed molding

You have two ways to adjust molding after it's placed:

Select and edit a specific piece. Click a molding in the job to select it — the selected piece highlights (green in the demo). This lets you target just the ceiling molding, or just a crown piece, to edit it.
Fix a missing return via finished ends OR direct edit. To correct a crown piece that didn't return, you can either:
- Go to the products page, set the cabinet's exposed end to a finished end, and rebuild your molding; or
- Select the molding, right-click > Edit Shape on Floor Plan. The editor opens, where you can move points, split a segment to add an extra point, then click Accept Edits (bottom-right) to commit the fix.

Related guides

Get it done-for-you

You can set this up yourself using the steps above. If you'd rather skip the setup, PAC's Mozaik training and done-for-you services can help — phillanton.com.

Full disclosure: this guide is published by Phill Anton Consulting.

FAQ

Does Automatic Molding place crown, ceiling, and toe in one step?

Yes. In a single pass you can add ceiling molding, crown molding on top of the wall cabinets, and toe skins on the bottoms — all from the Automatic Molding dialog.

Where does the molding's height/drop come from?

From your molding settings — specifically the elevation offset. An offset of -1 drops the crown molding one inch below the top of the wall cabinets. Set this before running the feature.

Why did crown molding return to the wall on one cabinet but not the next?

It comes down to finished ends. The cabinet whose exposed end is set as a finished end returns its crown to the back wall; a cabinet with no finished end on that side won't return.

Why is there no price on my ceiling molding?

Automatic Molding places the parts but pulls pricing from your molding library / pricing template. If pricing wasn't set up for that molding, add it in your molding library.