I am a long-time user of MasterCAM and SurfCAM, and I have become pretty good at Pro E CAD, but now I need to start taking some of my designs created in Pro E into production. I have had the NC package for a while, but I am just now trying to start using it. Are there any good books or tutorials on the subject? There are plenty of book options for CAD, but I have been unable to find anything for NC. PTC offers the training books that they use in their classes, but they are a bit pricey, like $120 per day, making the set of books $360. I don't mind spending that to get moving, but I would like to know what kind of material they cover, and how thoroughly they cover it before dropping that much on something site-unseen. The site proetutorials.com also has a tutorial for about the same price. I downloaded the trial chapter from them, and it seems adequate, but it is tough to really tell from such a small section of the program. And another thing I am very unclear about is the difference between using NC assembly and Expert Machinist. I have opened a file in both, and there seem to be some significant differences between them, but I can't tell from just a quick glance what they are.
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