The Dark Satanic Mill

[JAZZCNC]

Good book and really a bible is CNC Programming Handbook by Smid.
Bit pricey in 3rd edition but 2nd editions can be picked up cheaply and not a lot of difference in them.

Better idea save your money and put it towards the machine getting done quicker because although like John says it's a good read and very informative it does relate more to industry standards and Mach doesn't exactly follow them to the letter(At the moment.!). . . . Can't beat hands on experience IMO so get bloody cutting ASAP and learn along the way.

[Jonathan]

Better idea save your money and put it towards the machine getting done quicker because although like John says it's a good read and very informative it does relate more to industry standards and Mach doesn't exactly follow them to the letter(At the moment.!). . . . Can't beat hands on experience IMO so get bloody cutting ASAP and learn along the way.

Just what I was thinking.

A lot, if not most, of the 'hobby' CAM programs tend to do almost everything with G0,1,3 anyway presumably because there aren't many cases where it makes a difference. For instance V-carve doesn't even use G81 to drill, just uses G1 and G0.

Just yesterday I was chamfering some large rectangular aluminium parts, but due to the parts having taken so long to cut and the MDF bed the chamfers were uneven. Easily solved by measuring the actual width of the chamfer in the 4 corners and adding Z moves to those points to make the tool move on an inclined plane to compensate for the bed...didn't need any fancy codes, just a bit of common sense. Look them up if/when you need them.