Hi. I am a business owner in the San Jose area and have an interest to learn CNC machining. I am in the process of buying a Sharp VMC and will have to pay somebody to operate the machine for now. My question is this. Can someone point me in the right direction to learn the order of operations, and the path that I would need to take to learn how to CNC an item? Is there any easy way to design simple 3 axis parts, a simple way to import them to the machine, and to actually start making the parts? Please excuse my ignorance. I have done alot of searching and know that I will need to learn SolidWorks and have started doing that. But in the meantime is there a way to get started in the actual machine operation?
Thank you for your time and point in the right direction.