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BEFORE YOU BEGIN
WHAT TO DRAW?
Your choice of patterns for the door panels,
whether aesthetic or functional, is nearly infin-
ite. Inspiration can be found everywhere from
household objects, to architecture, to industrial
equipment, to nature.
You might start by using the door pattern in
AtFAB_PKC.skp as a jumping-off point for your
own. It’s relatively simple to adapt this pattern
in your CAD software, to develop your own
clean, geometric, repetitive field of vectors to
be etched or cut into the door panels.
pass right through the door. Draw these pat-
terns in your CAD program, composing them as
detailed flourishes on the doors rather than an
overall pattern.
If you are seeking something looser than a geo-
metric pattern, consider tracing an elaborate,
organic filigree from a raster image in your CAD
program. Or consider composing stenciled type
onto a door panel, writing out a quote, labeling
the doors, or oversizing the type to make it a
decorative supergraphic.
Patterns, however, can go beyond the decora-
tive to serve functional uses. For instance, a
carefully located pattern of perforations allows
sound or signals from concealed devices to
FIGURE 15-1
Cutting a pattern and
handles into the Cre-
denza door panels
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