CNC Programming: Basics & Tutorial Textbook

I got this just to brush up on my CNC programming knowledge. It's helping me relearn what I have forgotten.

kinda over my head. I had some difficulty understanding it. No need now days because the programs are well imbedded and good peograms to convert.

The information within this book is very informative and useful however it could have been a smaller book. If I wanted a field notebook, I would have ordered one. There are many black pages and pages for notes. These pages outweigh the important pages. Still useful, could have used trees for other writings. Still gave it 4 stars.

I was disappointed in this book. The author's grammar and spelling leave much to be desired, making the book hard to read and leading to a lack of confidence that the author knows what he is talking about. There are lots of blank pages and several charts printed in the book that are easily found on the internet, and so do not contain any helpful information; you are not getting 100 pages of book here. Reading through the chapters I was left with more questions than answers, and found later that some of the information was just not correct; for example the author turns on cutter compensation in one program and then defines the tool steps without using it. Very confusing for someone new to CNC programming. There was some helpful information contained in the book, but certainly there are much better books out there on this subject.

this was the best purchase I ever made. I don't know how I ever lived without this book. I now run faster, jump higher. and my wife thinks I am a god. I recommend that everyone buy this book.

I was disappointed with this product. There were far too many blank pages that are meant for user's notes. I don't buy a publication so that I can write down my own material. I have loose scrap paper to do that. This is definitely not a "meaty" publication. In fact, I did not find it to be a logically organized step-by-step learning process. My knowledge of CNC is not much better off than what I knew back in the 1960's.

A great help for my new job and easy to understand.

possibly worth the price of the Kindle version. it's really not much information. Hardly goes beyond a list of the commands. The tutorials for the lathe, which was why I bought it, are so 'basic' they are nearly useless.Cannot recommend this to anyone, but it is cheap.

CNC Programming Basics & Tutorial Textbook is excellent, and I thoroughly recommend it to absolute beginners to CNC. I bought a 3020T 3-axis CNC machine to produce the PCBs I design and I learnt G-code programming competently as I read and reread the book in 6 days. Michael J Peterson is a good tutor, and his hands-on experience shows up clearly and certainly in this book. If there should be any adverse criticism I would make about the book, it would be the sprinkling of topographical errors that occasionally appear in the text, and I would have loved more information about "Interpolation", which deals with programming arcs and circles. I ended up writing my own routines for arcs and circles the long-winded way. My criticisms, however, can be overlooked for the sheer quality of the information given and the experience I gained. I waited a long time for such expert and professional coaching. Thank you Michael J Peterson. No. I am not getting paid or receiving perks of any kind for this review!

I think this is probably a useful book if I could understand at times what the author - who I assumed, because of his name, to be an English speaker - is talking about. As an example Page 29 has the following "Absolute programming is programming mode that is a reflection of each number read is from part of machine Zero" ?? Having got past that and other convoluted English spaghetti - what do we have? We have the lists of G and M codes that are available from any number of internet sites. What I was looking for was examples of how these are strung together and what this means to a CNC machine. However, when complex "canned" cycles are mentioned, there is little explanation of what each part of the canned cycle refers to and what parameter value is attached to each Gcode operation - something that only starts to be explained towards the end of the book in Tutorials - these need to be described and explained as soon as they appear in the first few chapters. With a book labelled Basics and Tutorial, I expected slightly more basic explanation of Gcode variables, what parameters could be added to each Gcode and which ones couldn't. I wonder whether the title is misleading. I was expecting an explanation of Gcode programming so that I could understand and modify the produced Gcode from a CAD/CAM process. This book might be better titled "Application of CNC Programming to Workshop Machining - Basics and Tutorial" as it appears to be aimed at experienced Lathe and Milling machine operators looking to add CNC control to their workshop machines.

I bought this book to help me understand G- Code for general use in machine control. The abundance of spelling mistakes makes it a difficult read and while I do not associate literacy with competency in the art of programming machines, it behoves a writer on the subject to deliver a literary work as well as an authoritative technical work.

Excellent, Just the job, just what I required.

There is plenty of space to put the explanations alongside each line of code, then it would not be necessary to look backwards and forwards.The type of shorthand sometimes makes it difficult to understand. Words such as: "the" and "an" are typical missing words.