CNC Milling in the Workshop (Crowood Metalworking Guides)

This is a fantastic introduction to CNC work in the work shop. If has examples using both MACH3 and LinuxCNC.I am very happy with the purchase. The book is expensive, but it is very knowledge dense. For me it was well worth the price.I wish someone would put together a book of this calibre together for building a CNC machine.

a REALLY GOOD REFERENCE BOOK.

Practical advice, good references to common machining situations and popular applications software, this book stands well out of the crowd of mediocre tutorials that are quickly dated and filled with filler material in the area of CNC help books.

This book is so good, I feel compelled to review it. I've read a half dozen other books on CNC and none of them provide the depth of information and utility that this one does. Most of the other books focus on the construction of a machine and have tiny sections related to their operation. This one covers the process, the tooling, the coding - pretty much everything needed to get started with a CNC machine. I highly recommend this book to hobbyists who are just getting started with desktop CNC. While the focus of the book is on machining metal, the author does address wood as well. The truth of the matter is that metals take more skill and you can apply the same concepts he presents to wood as well. Also, hats off to the author for his writing style and for the lack of typos and grammatical errors. So nice not to read something riddled with problems.

Doesn't touch upon machine setup in regards to cnc electronics. Assumes you have a fully working cnc mill. It's fine if your interested in learning basic gcode

Worth reading.

This book is a great compliment to the author"s column in Model Enginers Workshop magazine.

Excellent resource. I recently purchased a small CNC mill and this book picked right up where the MACH3 install and set up guides left off.

I cannot believe all the glowing reviews for this book as it is basically useless. It is essentially a collection of the author's pet CNC projects that you can copy, parrot fashion. Worse than that he then goes into great detail about how to do these projects in Mach 3 and LinuxCNC. Does a book that is supposed to be about CNC milling need to explain how to edit a file in Mach 3? If you're looking for detail about G code you may find a few crumbs in the projects, but nowhere in the book is there a full description of G codes, their parameters and how to use them. The best you get is a list of G codes without any mention of their parameters. I think I must live in a different world to the other reviewers, but this is by far the worst technical book I have ever purchased.

This is an excellent book for anyone wishing to delve further into CNC milling beyond just learning about basic principles. Note that the emphasis of the book is on programming rather than how to build or choose a machine. Although there is some discussion of physical hardware the main topics of the book relate to how to make it produce the desired end result using G Code and either Mach 3 or Linux CNC. There are many practical examples and everything is well illustrated in colour. The overall quality of the book is very high and definitely a cut above the average. This is recommended reading for anyone who owns or is contemplating owning a CNC milling machine.

Very good service, the book is really useful, thank you

This is an excellent book for those starting out in the world of CNC, and it is one which I can see will be essential to have in my workshop library. Marcus Bowman has excelled himself, yet again!

Still reading, but from my own basis of never having done CNC before, everything is explained clearly and is following logically. Not too weighty and giving me confidence to use a mill without disaster breaking out. Useful pictures and GUI snapshots throughout.