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complex and painstakingly fabricated, they still
fall into the basic categories described “Eight
Basic CNC Joint Conditions” on page 47.
In the CNC Panel Joinery Notebook, Sean
Michael Ragan provides another resource on
complex joinery that expands upon Gros’s
compilation and introduces a broader array of
CNC joint types. To learn more about design
topics introduced in these chapters, we recom-
mend these books as a starting point.
RECOMMENDED READING ON DESIGN
Design Thinking
• Less Is More by Dieter Rams
• How to See: Visual Adventures in a World God
Never Made by George Nelson
• Design Thinking: Understanding How Design-
ers Think and Work by Nigel Cross
• The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelly
• Thoughtless Acts by Jane Fulton Suri
Open Design
• Open Design Now by Bas Van Able, Lucas
Evers, Roel Klaassen, and Peter Troxler
• FabLab: Revolution Field Manual by Massimo
Menichinelli (Editor)
Parametric Design
• Elements of Parametric Design by Robert
Woodbury
• Getting Started with Processing by Casey
Reas and Ben Fry
Human Factors and Ergonomics
• The Measure of Man and Woman: Human
Factors in Design, by Alvin R. Tilley, Henry
Dreyfuss Associates
• Human Dimension & Interior Space: A Source
Book of Design Reference Standards by
Julius Panero and Martin Zelnik
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DESIGN FOR CNC
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