To set up door drilling and hinge boring in Mozaik, turn on the hinge-cup and pull boring options on each door style in your door library, and make sure the matching boring details are defined for your hinges and pulls in the hardware catalog. With both pieces in place, Mozaik automatically applies those drilling operations to the door when it's cut on the CNC router.
This guide applies to flat-panel doors that are cut on a CNC router — nested MDF or slab-type doors — not to doors you don't machine on the router. Hinge boring and hardware boring on doors was added in Mozaik version 3.6.
This guide follows Mozaik's official walkthrough. Watch the original on Mozaik's channel:
What this feature does
Mozaik can drill two kinds of holes into a CNC-cut door as part of the same machining run:
- Hinge cup boring — the bore for the hinge cup.
- Pull/hardware boring — the holes for the door pull.
Because the door is already being produced on the CNC router, these operations are added automatically once you've enabled them, so the drilling comes off the machine done.
Step 1: Pick the door library for the job
Start by choosing the door catalog you want to work with.
- In the Settings tab, open your Door library and select the catalog for the job (in the video, an MDF-heavy door library is chosen).
- Then open the Doors list in your Libraries to see the door styles in that catalog.
This gives you the full list of door styles you can turn drilling on for.
Step 2: Turn on boring per door style
Click into a door style and you'll find two options: bore for the hinge cup and drill for the pull.
- Check the hinge-cup boring option.
- Check the pull (hardware) drilling option.
Once both are checked, Mozaik pulls the boring details from your hardware catalog and applies those operations to that door style automatically.
Important: these options are set individually for each door style. Enabling them on one door (for example, a single-pass bead door) does not enable them on the next. Open each style you want drilled — an arched raised-panel door, a cathedral raised-panel door, and so on — and check the same two options on each.
Step 3: Define the boring details in the hardware catalog
The actual boring information lives in your hardware catalog, set up ahead of time. The door-style checkboxes simply tell Mozaik to use it.
- Under hinges, for each type of hinge, use the per-hinge Drill control to set up the boring for the hinge on the door.
- Under pulls, for each type of pull, set up the boring information for the pull.
Because this is defined per hinge type and per pull type, you can carry different drilling specs for different hardware and Mozaik will apply whichever one the door uses.
Step 4: Choose face-side drilling for MDF doors
There's also an option to drill on the face side.
For MDF doors, turning this on tells Mozaik to bore the holes as face-side operations. The practical benefit: you don't have to flip the sheet or flip the parts on the CNC machine to get the holes drilled. The MDF door and its hardware holes come off the router complete in one orientation.
Why this matters
Setting drilling up once at the library and hardware-catalog level means every qualifying door in the job inherits the correct hinge and pull boring automatically. You're configuring it a single time, not hole-by-hole on every door, and the parts come off the CNC ready for hardware.
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 this work on every kind of door?
No. It applies to flat-panel doors cut on a CNC router — nested MDF or slab-type doors. These are the door styles you machine on the router, not doors that aren't run through the CNC.
Why isn't my drilling showing up on all my doors?
The boring options are checked individually on each door style. If you only enabled them on one style, the others won't drill. Open each door style you want bored and check the hinge-cup and pull options on each one.
Where do the actual hole sizes and positions come from?
From your hardware catalog. You define the boring per hinge type using the per-hinge Drill control under hinges, and per pull type under pulls. The door-style checkboxes just tell Mozaik to apply that catalog information to the door.
What does the face-side option do for MDF doors?
It bores the holes as face-side operations so you don't have to flip the sheet or the parts on the CNC machine — the MDF door and its hardware holes are completed in one orientation.