Books by James Valentino

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.

This unique text presents a thorough introduction to Mastercam X5 Mill for students with little or no prior experience. It can be used in virtually any educational setting and will also serve as a reliable reference for on-the-job use or as a self-study manual. 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.

This unique text presents a thorough introduction to Mastercam X8 Lathe for anyone with little or no prior experience with the software. 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. He has also provided exercises from the text for student practice. Features Emphasizes student-friendly visual displays in place of long explanations and definitions. Uses numerous examples that provide step-by-step instructions with visual displays. Eliminates flipping between pages by featuring all explanations on the same page as the example. Covers all aspects of using Mastercam X8 to machine various types of parts and contains a process plan describing the machining operations to be carried out to machine each part. Contains student exercises at the end of each chapter The enclosed CD contains the complete Mastercam X8 Demo, as well as student practice exercises from the book.

This unique text presents a thorough introduction to SolidWorks 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.