In Mozaik you can adjust a closet section's height and edit its drawers, shelves, doors, and closet rods on the fly, even in front of a customer, because PAC's modular-front sections are built on the 32mm system. Raising or lowering the section keeps the fixed shelf and drawer sizes intact; you then fine-tune adjustable shelves, drawer-front heights, openings, and rods in the Interior and Face tabs, and save the result back to your library with its nominal heights in the name.
How do I make a section taller or shorter without breaking the drawers?
Change the section's overall height directly. When you take, for example, an 87-inch four-shelf, five-drawer section up to 96 inches, the fixed shelf stays in place and the drawer sizes stay the same. Making it shorter works the same way. One caution: when you set a new height, type the number rather than using a height setting that ties to your room settings. Phill warns that if you save it tied to height it will pop back out based on the room settings, which you don't want.
How do I fix the adjustable shelves after resizing?
Resizing keeps the drawers correct but can leave the adjustable shelves wrong. Go to the Interior tab. Usually it's the top shelf you delete first, then click on the opening and choose the adjustable-shelf option, which brings in four shelves at about 10 inches apart. The drawer stacks are the important part; the adjustable shelves are quick to re-place.
How do I change drawer heights (e.g. make them all sevens)?
Work in the Face tab. Click in the middle of the drawers and drag on the line to resize them — dragging onto the line snaps them so they all become 7.5 inches, which PAC calls sevens. The same dragging technique lets you split a face into a different stack of nominal drawer heights.
How do I create an open section (no drawers or doors)?
Make the section open, then go to Parts to Build and uncheck the bottom and front toe. That leaves you an open section. Phill notes this is not extremely common, but that's how you'd build one.
How do I add doors to a section?
Doors are the easiest thing to add. In the Face tab, click the area up top, click on the type, and choose pair. Because frameless is selected in the Face tab, that also adds the shelf holes automatically.
How do I build a new section from scratch?
Start from a previously made section rather than from nothing, then follow these steps:
- In the Face tab, clear the whole thing. If that section has no toe, go to Parts to Build and bring the toe back in at the bottom.
- When you split the face you must drag on the middle line — if you don't, the 32mm spacing won't activate, which is what keeps consistent heights across sections.
- Take the top door (which you usually don't want, especially on a 14-inch section) and set it to open.
- Divide the drawers one at a time by dragging on the line between each one — including at the very top — and left-click each opening to turn it into a drawer.
- Go to the Interior tab, place a fixed shelf, then add a closet rod up top; if the height allows, add another adjustable shelf above it.
- Rename the section and save it back to your library.
Do adjustable shelves add structure?
Yes. The adjustable shelves use shelf-support hardware, so they add structure like a fixed shelf does — not as much, but they still contribute structural support.
How do I save a custom section to my library?
Once the stack is how you want it, you can save it to your library. Phill recommends denoting the nominal heights of the drawers/faces in the name (for example 7 7 7 7 7 for five seven-inch drawers) before hitting save to library.
Why do drawer-front heights have to stay on nominal sizes?
The whole reason to build this way is the 32mm system. The nominal heights for the drawer fronts are on purpose: if you order out drawer fronts — for example five-piece laminate fronts — they're all made to work within these door sizes, so you want to keep to them. Only when you go fully custom (and custom line board) would you turn off the modular heights, which is a different video series and out of scope for the basic money-making closet library.
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You can set this up by hand (above). If you build these regularly, the PAC Mozaik Closet Library from PAC has it ready in Mozaik. → phillanton.com
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FAQ
Can I resize a closet section and keep the drawer and shelf sizes in Mozaik?
Yes. You can change the section's overall height on the fly and the fixed shelf and drawer sizes stay the same; raising an 87-inch four-shelf five-drawer to 96 inches keeps the drawer stack, then you re-add adjustable shelves in the Interior tab.
Why drag on the middle line when splitting a face?
On modular-front sections you must drag the middle line when splitting the face, or the 32mm spacing won't activate and your drawer-front heights won't land on the nominal sizes.
When should I turn off modular heights?
Only when you go fully custom with custom line board. For the basic closet library, keep the nominal heights so ordered fronts (e.g. five-piece laminate) fit the door sizes.