What is the best way to learn how to optimize a CAM programs parameters? Are there textbooks on optimizing CAM software parameters? I am looking for commentary on every parameter a piece of CAM software would have. Mastercam's tutorials, for example, do not go into detail at all about the why behind a parameters. The help file will only give a one line explanation. CAD is something else entirely, you can experiment with functions and figure things out that way and there are much more textbooks on the subject. Why are there next to no CAM textbooks...?