Learning Mastercam X8 Lathe Step by Step

This unique text presents a thorough introduction to Mastercam X8 Lathe for anyone with little or no prior experience with the software. 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 [...]
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This unique text presents a thorough introduction to Mastercam X8 Lathe for anyone with little or no prior experience with the software. 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 author has carefully arranged the contents in a clear and logical sequence and has used many hundreds of visuals instead of wordy explanations. He has also provided exercises from the text for student practice. It emphasizes student-friendly graphical displays in place of long explanations and definitions. It includes an overview of the process of generating a word address program. It provides key definitions which are boxed in. It presents numerous examples that provide step-by-step instructions with graphical displays. It eliminates flipping between pages by featuring all explanations on the same page as the example. It contains exercises at the end of each chapter.It features a process plan for many machining exercises to indicate the machining operations to be performed and the tools to be used. All Operations now done in Windows 8. It includes an in-depth presentation of how to customize Mastercam X8 for user applications in the appendix.