This unique text presents a thorough introduction to Mastercam X7 Mill for students with little or no prior experience. 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. The enclosed DVD contains Mastercam X7 Demo and also includes examples and 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 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. It contains a new chapter on Machining with 2D High Speed Toolpaths. It contains new material on 2D high speed dynamic toolpaths: area mill, rest mill, core mill, contour mill. It contains a new chapter on Executing 2D Feature Based Machining(FBM) on Solid Models. It includes an in-depth presentation of how to customize Mastercam X7 for user applications in the appendix.

Contributions by: Joseph Goldenberg