@dave r said:

Are you drawing the doors as five separate pieces? Assuming you are, here are the steps. Suppose you want to add 3" to the width of a door with a raised panel and cope and stick joints. Just for fun, we'll make the door 3" wider to the right.

1. Move the right hand stile 3" to the right.
2. Open the top (or bottom. Unless they are different as in a tombstone door, they should be instances of the same component) rail component for editing.
3. With the Select tool, drag a left to right selection box around the right end of the rail.
4. Get the Move tool and move the selected geometry 3" to the right.
5. Open the raised panel component and repeat steps 4 and 5.

Done.

If the rail you didn't open for editing gets lengthened at the opposite end from the one you did edit, you rotated the copy instead of flipping it. This means you'll also need to move one rail to align its ends correctly. If you flip or mirror the copy, you won't have that problem.

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Sorry for taking this thread somewhat off topic. I am trying to do this, and I just can's seem to get it to work. I understand how the left to right selection box is supposed to only select whats on the edge you are selecting, but its not working for me. I have a custom door profile that I am trying to make work for a customer. Right now, the stiles and rails are 3" wide. I need to resize them to 3 3/8. Every time I try the left to right selection, it selects every surface and edge in the stile. This door profile is fairly straightforward on the inside edge, but the outer edge profile that the client wants is something I will have to get a custom knife made for, for my shaper. The client is a graphic designer, so he is pretty picky about how he wants this edge. Anyway, I'm wondering if the profile is screwing up the selection tool?
I am attaching the component, in case maybe its not just me screwing it up.

I had some other issues with drawing this profile to begin with, but I won't get into that here. I'm sure there are some things that I'm just not doing right with this program.

VK Door Stile.skp

@dave r said:

@sparky977 said:

Any progress on this by chance? Specifically, the "board stretcher" option. That would be tremendously helpful! It would be nice to be able to make a small section of door stiles and rails for any cope and stick pattern I use, and then just be able to stretch those into whatever size door I needed.

You can do this already, Sparky, using the basic SketchUp tools. A plugin would be nice for it but it is possible without. Now with SU7Pro, you could make dynamic components to do the same thing although the components wouldn't be very useful for a cutlist later.

Mind telling me how?
I've been trying to figure out a good way, and everything I've tried has been extremely inefficient. The scale tool doesn't work for what I'm talking about, because it scales the edge profiles as well. I just need the length changed, not the scale.

Any progress on this by chance? Specifically, the "board stretcher" option. That would be tremendously helpful! It would be nice to be able to make a small section of door stiles and rails for any cope and stick pattern I use, and then just be able to stretch those into whatever size door I needed.