Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Best CNC Textbooks

Hi Jan,

You have my ten votes to publish. I would love to read it.

Regards,

Terry

> It would be great to be able to read your article!
> Alex

>
>

> >
> > > 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