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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Smid, Peter.
CNC programming handbook: comprehensive guide to practical CNC programming/Peter Smid.
p.cm.

1. Machine-tools Numerical control Programming Handbooks, manuals, etc..I.
Title.
TJ1189. S592 2000
621.9 ?023 dc21 00-023974

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Dedication

To my father Franti ek and my mother Ludmila, who taught me never to give up.

Acknowledgments

In this second edition of the CNC Programming Handbook, I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to Peter Eigler for being the bottomless source of new ideas, knowledge and inspiration - all that in more ways than one. My thanks also go to Eugene Chishow, for his always quick thinking and his ability to point out the elusive detail or two that I might have missed otherwise. To Ed Janzen, I thank for the many suggestions he offered and for always being able to see the bigger picture. To Greg Prentice, the President of GLP Technologies, Inc., - and my early mentor - you will always be my very good friend.

Even after three years of improving the CNC Programming Handbook and developing the enclosed compact disc, my wife Joan will always deserve my thanks and my gratitude. To my son...