This book introduces the knowledge and skills that you'll find widely applicable across all kinds of CNC projects. Not only will you learn how to design, fabricate, and assemble a wide range of projects, you'll have some great furniture to show for it!

With Design for CNC, you’ll learn to:

• Use software techniques for working in two and three dimensions
• Design a 3D furniture piece made of flat parts
• Reconcile the digital with the real and troubleshoot along the way
• Master the principles of proper machining
• Create your own furniture, including a stool and coffee table, chair and lounge chair, table, storage cabinet, and even a credenza!

Meet the Authors

Gary Rohrbacher is an architect, professor, and partner in Filson and Rohrbacher, an architecture, design and research practice. He co-founded AtFAB in 2010 to produce designs for digital tools and networked manufacturing. Since then, nearly 10,000 AtFAB furniture pieces have been downloaded worldwide. AtFAB has been featured in The Economist, The Atlantic and Make:, and can be found in the permanent collection at Centre National Des Arts Plastiques in Paris.