Full Overlay Bottom Clearance
Traditionally, 32mm drawer and door faces are indexed so that their top and bottom edges center on "System" holes. With half-overlay and inset cabinets (where most box components center on system holes), drawer layouts are relatively easy because all drawer openings are the same size (when drawer rails are used).
With full-overlay cabinets, the bottom drawer faces are flush with the box bottom (0mm reveal). What this means is that the bottom edge of the bottom drawer opening is 9.5-19mm higher than the rest of the drawer openings, i.e. is 9.5-19mm closer to a system hole. Because drawer slides are mounted to system holes, the bottom drawer clearance for all slides is determined by the bottom drawer. The reduced clearances caused by full overlay faces can complicate drawer layout.
Shifted
I first heard of "Shifted" system rows from Keith Hill and Bob Buckley (True32) in the late '90s. Blum has since ('04?) switched from "System" to "Shifted" for their Process 32. The system rows on any given panel design can be shifted vertically by 16mm. When the system rows are shifted, all door and drawer top and bottom edges (plus 1/2 reveal) center between system holes. Shifting the system rows can provide additional bottom drawer clearance without breaking the 32mm system.
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Increased Reveal
The KISS II system with its 4.5mm bottom (and top) reveal allows for better drawer layouts when using Grass Zargon or Grass/Hettich bottom-mount slides. I know of no other brands or styles of slides that benefit from the KISS II 4.5mm bottom reveal. Increased reveals can be used with Shifted and System panel designs. The drawback is that bottom reveals can look bad, especially on uppers where the box banding is not an exact match to the door faces.
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Plus 32
Making the bottom drawer box 32mm smaller and moving the bottom slide up a notch is another possibility. Doing this increases the bottommost drawer box to face reveal by 32mm. The gained usable space in the rest of the drawers can more than make up for the 32mm loss in the bottom drawer. A plus-32 bottom face can be center or top indexed (which excludes the bottom indexed Zargon slides). With full overlay bottom faces, top indexing is the best option. A plus-32 face can be used with Shifted and System panel designs. The example is one of the best layouts I've been able to come up with for Metabox slides.
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Plus 12
Blum's Process 32 uses a 12mm larger box-to-face reveal on the bottom drawer of their undermount and Tandem layouts. With undermounts this means using the bottom row mounting holes for the bottom drawer. For the Tandem's it means drilling an off system hole 12mm up from a system hole and boring the mounting holes 12mm higher on the drawer face (same goes for the undermounts if you use drawer front adjusters).
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"B" Rule
An early method of increasing bottom drawer clearance was The Pearls (Blum). The Pearls used a panel (12.5/12.5mm start holes) that would have had 14/14mm reveals without their "B rule". The "B rule" was that 14mm be added to all bottom drawer and door faces. While the "B rule" provides good drawer clearance, it breaks the 32mm system*. The most obvious side effect is that door hinge cup boring becomes unbalanced.
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Center Indexing
Center indexing is when the center of the drawer box and face center on, or between, the same system holes. True center indexing (all B2FR's are equal) is only possible with half-overlay and flush-inset cabinets. With full-overlay cabinets, bottom (and top) clearances become an issue. With center indexed drawers, the top and bottom box-to-face reveals need to be the same. Using a plus 32 face, the bottom box needs to be 64mm smaller to increase both the top and bottom face-to-box reveals by 32mm, i.e. is a pretty lousy option.
When using boxes sized for center indexing, adding 32mm to the bottom of a face has no affect on the top box-to-face reveals. All hardware can be mounted some increment of 32mm plus (box) or minus (face) top reveal. With drawer layouts where the face above the plus-32-face is 32mm smaller, the two boxes will be the same size, i.e. top indexing can reduce the the number of box sizes. Holes for drawer front adjusters can be the same for both drawers. The only drawback is that you cannot bore for centered pulls at the same time. That may not matter, e.g. if all pulls get bored an equal distance from the top of the faces. While I've improved the layout (same as Plus 32 above), the bottom drawers are not center indexed, i.e. is not a valid center indexing option.
The only reasonable method I've been able to come up with (for full-overlay) requires drilling extra holes for mounting the bottom slide. When the slides of the above top-indexed bottom box are moved down 16mm (mounting holes centered between system holes), the box is once again centered on the face. While centered, the box-to-face reveals for the shifted drawer are 16mm bigger than the rest. This isn't an issue because increments of 32mm can be odd or even and the center of odd increment faces are always some increment of 16mm (never 32mm) bigger/smaller than even increment faces. In other words, doing this breaks nothing. All faces will center on all boxes. The only difference is that the bottom box gets a 32mm bigger face. This option (and Plus 32) only bugs me when the bottom two drawer faces are the same size and the bottom box is 32mm smaller (far right in the example drawing).
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