Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Best CNC Textbooks

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Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Best CNC Textbooks


> In a message dated 3/12/2003 10:26:52 AM Central Standard Time,
> jttravis45@... writes:
>
> > What are some of the best texts on CNC ? - need info on both programming
and
> > building a CNC system.
> >
> Joe!
>
> At the outset, I must admit I am NOT a professional machinist nor "CNC
guru."
> I only built FOUR little CNC lathes from scratch, first operated by an
> ancient Commodore PET using BASIC!, and the last two VERY successfully
using
> OLD Tandy 1500HD laptops, running GWBASIC. Being ignernt at the outset,
and
> there BEING no info "off the shelf" for a beginner to read in 1978-on, I
> taught myself.
>
> However, I TRIED, and got the following books. I scanned them, but
realized
> that IF I wanted to learn anything about professional CNC, I'd have to go
> into "disciplined mode" and "study," and, well, NEVERmind! But I still
have
> the books "for reference," doncha know! They are:
>
> NC MACHINE PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE DESIGN by Chao-Hwa Chang and Michel
(NO,
> not Michael!) A. Melkanoff. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
> NICELY bound hardback book with drawings. Looks like an EXCELLENT
beginning!
>
>
> Second, perhaps useful: (I had marked "$35.00 cost" on the cover of THIS
> one!) AN OPERATORS [sic!] INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL
written
> by Chris Mackay. Plastic multiloop spine--you know those left-edges of
each
> page punched with 19 small rectangular holes. 89 pages (pages printed on
> both sides of paper)
>
> This one looks to me like it was probably originally published as a
textbook
> for H.S. Vocational Arts classes on CNC machining: Introduction to NC/CNC
> Operation William W. Luggen. Lotsa explanatory diagrams, drawings, and
a
> few BW photos.
>
> Question to the entire CCED group: For us NON-machinists, should I write
a
> 2- or 3-page article on how to use GWBASIC (or probably MOST BASIC's would
> work?) to send STEP-pulses out the LPT-1 for X- and Y-, and to control the
> tail-stock and spindle-motor??? Would a little document that size be too
> much for the FILES department of this group? TELL ME! I can do straight
> lines at any angle with simple FOR-NEXT loops, and CURVES of any
mathematical
> form (circles, ellipses, parallelogram, etc.) using a bit of RAM to hold a
> "lookup table" which is generated when the program is first RUN. Perhaps
a
> proper discussion of how I do curves that way would be a bit much for said
> article, as there are "important details" I have discovered over the years
> which would add-up in pages!
>
> Jan Rowland
>
>
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