This is your cut list shop. Tell it what doors you are building and it works out every stile, rail, and panel, adds up your material, and lets you save the job to open again later.
Global settings — what locks when the job starts
As soon as the cut list has at least one part row — the first time you click Add Door To Cutlist, or when you load a saved job that already has rows — DoorCut treats the job as in progress. Several global settings lock so every line in the grid was built with the same rules.
Clear Grid (with an empty list) unlocks them again so you can start fresh.
Locked for the rest of the job
Measurement notation — Fractions, Decimal, or Millimeters
Joinery type — Cope & Stick vs Mortise & Tenon (you cannot switch mid-job)
Tenon length and panel inset on the Joinery Setup tab
Job materials — panel, stile/rail, species, and thickness on the main form; edge banding setup in slab mode (material, width, thickness, and options); and Materials Library right-click Use for Panel, Use for Stiles & Rails, or Use for Edge Banding
Machining allowance — Net only vs Apply, and the prep adder amounts
Still editable mid-job
Overall door width and height and number of doors — for the next add
Per-door setup — stile and rail widths, arch fields, lock position, and so on (open the door style from the sidebar)
You can still edit library rows and save the library — only applying a different material to the job is blocked. Need different stock for the whole job? Clear Grid and pick materials again before the first add.
Getting started
Pick how you want to type sizes: fractions, decimals, or millimeters.
Enter how many doors and the finished width and height.
Set up your joinery (cope & stick or mortise & tenon) on the Joinery Setup tab.
Choose your materials.
Click Add Door To Cutlist. The parts drop into the grid.
Need help on something?
Click the small ? button next to whatever you are working on. It opens the help for just that part of the screen, so you do not have to go hunting.