Hi. Name is Mike and I'm a 35 year old conventional machinist, with 18+ years experience, that has recently decided to go back to trade school to learn CNC.
First day at school, I was thrown in a Trig class with 20+ kids with ages that range from 18-23 years old. I'm a highschool drop out and had never taken Trig so needless to say it was difficult to grasp and I'm still having a few problems with it in CNC Math class.
Fast forward 3 months or so.
I've been exempted from all conventional shop training and jumped in CNC Math. Applying Trig to shop is still murky at best sometimes. So now I'm in CNC Math and I have to apply Trig to these drawings. It takes me a fair amount of time to imagine triangles where they don't exist. Teacher is 3 years older than I and he is very patient but I feel I'm slowing down the class. Teacher says I have alot of potential and that "practice makes perfect".
Now were learning lathe programming. Man... all these codes plus the Trig combined is enough to give me migraines. No joke.
I have written to Admin Ivan in hopes that he can suggest me something to read or study. I'm now asking my fellow machinist if there is anything that they can suggest.
Thanks in advance.
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