This unique text presents a thorough introduction to Mastercam X Mill for students with little or no prior experience. It can be used in virtually any educational setting -- from four-year engineering schools to community colleges and voc/tech schools to industrial training centers -- and will also serve as a reliable reference for on-the-job use or as a self-study manual. The award-winning authors have carefully arranged the contents in a clear and logical sequence and have used many hundreds of visuals instead of wordy explanations. An enclosed CD contains Mastercam X Mill Demo and also includes examples and exercises from the text for student practice. Learning Mastercam X Mill 2D Step by Step is sure to become a valuable resource for anyone learning or using Mastercam X Mill.
Distinctive Features
Emphasizes student-friendly graphical displays in place of long explanations and definitions.
Includes an overview of the process of generating a word address program.
Presents numerous examples that provide step-by-step instructions with graphical displays.
Eliminates flipping between pages by featuring all explanations on the same page as the example.
Contains a new chapter on Tabs and Work offsets
Contains exercises at the end of each chapter.
Features a process plan for many machining exercises to indicate the machining operations to be performed and the tools to be used.
Includes the official fully-functional demo version of Mastercam X on a CD that also contains examples and selected exercises from the text for student practice.
Presents an in-depth presentation of how to customize Mastercam X for user applications in the new appendix.
