Your Guide to CAD, CAM, and Machining
Welcome to the online home of my new book, CNC Beginner’s Guide: CAD, CAM, and Machining
This book presents the topic in a logical fashion, progressing from basics to more advanced subjects, using hands-on, project-based activities throughout. It includes important information on tooling and fundamentals of cutting feeds and speeds.
Industrial Press and I hope you find this book to be of great interest and practical use. To help you in reaching your goals, we have created this website so that you can have access to additional materials related to the book, as they become available. To access this supplementary material, please click on the links as they are added below.
If you have questions or feedback about something in the book or in the materials linked to below, you can send an email to my attention at info@industrialpress.com. Please make sure you include your contact information so that I can get back to you.
—Steven Thompson
Published by: Industrial Press
March 2025, 304 pages, paperback and eBook
Print ISBN: 9780831136963; print price: $59.95*
eBook ISBN: 9780831196622; IP eBook price: $49.95**
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Links to Online Materials for this Guide
Author Steven Thompson is in the process of creating, organizing, and uploading valuable videos and other content related to this book.
Introductory Videos on YouTube
To check out and subscribe to Steven’s video channel for the CNC Beginner’s Guide, click here.
Or click on the following links to watch the individual videos posted to date:
Getting Started with AutoDesk Fusion
Intro to the Autodesk Fusion Design Workspace
Intro to Manufacture Workspace in Autodesk Fusion
Intro to Tool Libraries in Autodesk Fusion
Making Tool Libraries in the Manufacture Workspace in Autodesk Fusion
Selected Equations, Figures, and Tables
Cutting Speeds (SFM): Table A-1
Chiploads: Table A-2, Table A-3, Table A-4
Fusion Sample Tool Libraries: Table A-5, A-6, A-7, A-8, A-9, A-10
Depth of Cut: Table A-11
Optimal Loads: Table A-12
Tool Libraries (for This Book): Table A-13, Table A14
More Value-Added Material to Come: Please check back for more online resources, including a roster of added video tutorials and color images and graphs seen in the book, along with added useful information.