ETEC 160 — CNC Programming
3 Lecture Hours, 3 Lab Hours, 4 Credits Prerequisites: ENGR 110 or ETEC 103 This course is a study of the capabilities, programming procedures, advantages, and disadvantages of numerical control (N/C) and computerized numerical control (CNC) metalworking machine tools. Manual methods for generating, debugging, and running point-to-point and continuous path programs including linear and circular interpolation, canned cycles, loops, and subroutines to produce work pieces of increasing complexity. Lecture topics are supported by a lab component.