The authors are recipients of the prestigious M. However, the student practice exercises from the book can be used if the user has a working version of Mastercam. IMPORTANT NOTE: The Mastercam X8 Demo on the enclosed CD-ROM may no longer work.

Contains student exercises at the end of each chapter.Covers all aspects of using Mastercam X8 to machine various types of parts and contains a process plan describing the machining operations to be carried out to machine each part.Eliminates flipping between pages by featuring all explanations on the same page as the example.Uses numerous examples that provide step-by-step instructions with visual displays.Emphasizes student-friendly visual displays in place of long explanations and definitions.They also have also provided exercises from the text for student practice. The award-winning authors have carefully arranged the contents in a clear and logical sequence and have used many hundreds of visuals instead of wordy explanations. 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. This unique text presents a thorough introduction to Mastercam X8 Lathe for anyone with little or no prior experience with the software.

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