Get Started with IT connect, configure, & go.Includes an in-depth presentation of how to customize Mastercam X5 for user applications in the appendix.Contains a new chapter on File tracking and Change Recognition.Contains new material on creating a user defined tool plane and machining on the plane.Contains a chapter on Executing 2D Milling Operations on Solid Models.Contains new material on editing solids and building a history tree for imported solids.Contains a new chapter on Creating 2D Solid Models by extrusion, revolving and Boolean Operations.Features a process plan for many machining exercises to indicate the machining operations to be performed and the tools to be used.Contains exercises at the end of each chapter.Eliminates flipping between pages by featuring all explanations on the same page as the example.Presents numerous examples that provide step-by-step instructions with graphical displays.Includes an overview of the process of generating a word address program.Emphasizes student-friendly graphical displays in place of long explanations and definitions.Two enclosed CDs contain Mastercam X5 Demo and also include examples and 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.

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