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Your best idea would be to just surf around yahoo. There are certainly books out there, its just a matter of finding the right one. It could become costly. I will see what I can find on my end and keep you updated.
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I have been a member of this forum for a while now, reading all your posts with great interest.
I have never used a machine with CNC. I have lathe and mill experience and some computer skills.
My hobby for the past 30yrs has been building model internal combustion engines.
I puchased a HF Sieg X2 and so far have been pleased with it. Before the X2 I was doing all milling operations on my lathe. Next I ordered Ron Steele's "Do-It-Yourself Plans For Converting A Mini-Mill Into A CNC"
Now I want a big fat book that will teach me how to put my drawings into the computer and let the computer run the mill.
Is there such a book?
Everyone must have a favorite title or titles that they found helpful, any ideas? I would just like to read some good up to date books before I start buying software etc.
Thanks, Robert.
Your best idea would be to just surf around yahoo. There are certainly books out there, its just a matter of finding the right one. It could become costly. I will see what I can find on my end and keep you updated.
Are you talking about CAD drawings or hard paper drawings, there maybe disadvatanges to both....Originally Posted by actionhac
I cannot recomend any books...
chris
I am talking about hard paper drawings. I will need to know CAD also.
I would like to take my drawings off the drafting table install them into the computer and have the computer machine the parts.
I guess my interest in CNC centers around making 10 or 20 of the same part.
Robert
I found the book I've been looking for. I'll let everyone know what I think of it.
CNC Programming Handbook
Author: Peter Smid
2nd Edition Dec 20th 2002 Hardcover 600pgs+CD-ROM
Robert
My CAM expereince is very limited so I will give it my best,
Its been an execerise in futality for me to try and scan a drawing into CAD. The computer has a hard learning what to do, its sees things that are not even there, my fortune may be worse then others so I would like to here from others. I was using turbo CAD, so its not exactly a high end program but I have never seen such a feature on other more expensive programs when I took some CAD training a number of years ago.
Depending upon what software you use it will more then likely be easier to use a CAD program, draw the part(or redraw in your case) then transfer that entity to the cam program. In my case it would turbo cad to mach's cam feature(although I have not done this yet). The CAM program will turn that into tool paths, after you enter some basic data like material and tool bit sizes. If you have not already I recomend you look at Machs website they have alot of user guides and add more all the time. Depending upon how complex your part is you might even be able to use Mach's own canned cycles and wizards to do basic operations such as pockets. If you don't have a high speed connection you will waiting for awhile however.
Since alot of what I do is not very complex I might actually use the wizards, and not even try and draw the parts in CAD, expect maybe for reference. Since you have machine experince alot of the CNC stuff will come real easy, most of it is based on x-y-z coordinates either absoulte or realtive depending upon your choices. Mach has execellent instructions on the avliable G and M codes that they use which you can download.
Most of what I learned was out of the machinerys handbook, the rest from machs instructions, although I had a basic knowledge enough to move a cnc machine before I started. My personal choice is going with mach there are other programs out there, and you may well already have one, but the Gcodes are pretty much the same.
www.machsupport.com
chris
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