Synopsis
This text covers all the major changes in machine tool education in the past 20 years. It offers a step-by-step approach to writing and using numerical control programs, enabling readers to program workpiece geometries of higher than average complexity. Writing and debugging a mill program, including contour milling, is covered, together with the intricacies of lathe programming; and there are detailed discussions of APT and COMPACT II. The book contains many sample programs, references to specific machines and end-of-chapter review questions.
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