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History of the list and what is acceptable
Full rules and topic guidelines

CCED Message Database message 1 - Nov, 03

Servos or Steppers? Some insight from Mariss at Gecko Drive

Beginners and Experts alike, please follow this link. It will give you a large listing of websites that are known to have very good information and tutorials for CNC.
It will help everyone on the list if you have absorbed some of this material to start with.
Thanks!
Here are the group links
Great collection of links to resource and reference specifically for CNC, CAD, CAM.

A glossary of related terms -

CAD - Computer Aided Design.

CAM - Computer Aided Manufacturing.

CMM - Coordinate Measuring Machine.

CNC - Computerized Numeric Control.

DNC - Distributed Numeric Control (now made obsolete by networking).

EDM - Electrical Discharge Machining - a machining process where shaped electrodes or moving wires cut hard materials by way of electric discharge. Sharp internal corners can be achieved..

ECM - Electrochemical Machining - like electroplating in reverse.

Electroforming - making parts by electroplating a disposable mandrel..

DRO - Digital Read Out

EMC - An essentially public-domain CNC control program that runs on PC hardware under the Linux operating system.

RS-274D - alias 'G-Code', an IEEE standard language for machine tool programming.