Numerical Control Programming

By Caxton C. Foster

Book Overview

This text covers all the major changes in machine tool education in the past 20 years. It offers a step-by-step approach to writing and using numerical control programs, enabling readers to program workpiece geometries of higher than average complexity. Writing and debugging a mill program, including contour milling, is covered, together with the intricacies of lathe programming; and there are detailed discussions of APT and COMPACT II. The book contains many sample programs, references to specific machines and end-of-chapter review questions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471846791
• ISBN13: 9780471846796
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.