CAD stands for Computer Aided Design or Computer Aided Drafting. CAD was developed in the early 60s. Today it is the premier way to design, develop and optimized products. People use CAD every day to design virtually every product you see. Generally, designers use CAD to design a product, and then produce prints to manufacture that product. A print is a picture of a part or assembly that is very exact. It includes the dimensions and a parts list used to manufacture a product….
CNC Control
Since we are dealing with CNC machines that do work for us, we need to control those CNC machines somehow. We need to control them for safety reasons as well. If you give a machine improper commands it can easily get out of control and cause harm to you or the part you are machining. We want to give appropriate commands to our machines, at appropriate times so they are not “out of control”.
CNC Machining
Everything before this topic is preparation. CNC Machining is where the rubber meets the road. All the steps of CNC before machining are just preparing for the machining phase of the project. A simple definition of machining is removing material. You remove material in various ways to come up with the part or piece.