CAM 360 is the first cloud based CAM solution, and is a fully integrated CAD/CAM environment. Autodesk CAM 360Īutodesk has gone beyond the desktop applications to introduce a great milling solution as part of the Autodesk 360 product set. Those factors and the easily ported modular build of the HSM technology helped convince Autodesk to complete the purchase. HSMWorks veteran Anthony Graves, now Autodesk’s CAM product manager, noted that the free HSMXpress software’s complete integration within respective CAD software unexpectedly cornered the 2.5D milling market, and subsequently influenced some users upgrading to 3 and 5 axis operations to invest in HSMWorks. They also released Inventor HSM, which is an Inventor port of the HSMXpress product, giving their flagship engineering software a fully integrated a 2.5D milling toolset, again for free. HSMWorks is a fully functional 5 axis milling and lathe solution, and HSMXpress is a rather well featured 2.5D milling solution that is available free of charge.Īutodesk assimilated the HSMWorks product team, and subsequently updated the HSMWorks product for SolidWorks 2014, reinforcing the company’s statement that they would not stop support for SolidWorks users. That purchase included 2 products, namely HSMWorks and HSMXpress, specifically designed for SolidWorks users.

This addition completes my prediction of the company’s direction with the PLM 360 construct, however it did so a year sooner than I thought would be reasonable.Īutodesk’s CAM offerings are based on the Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) technology purchase of HSMWorks in September 2012.

Autodesk announced CAM 360 at Autodesk University 2013, adding yet another fantastic capability to their cloud based 360 line of design and engineering tools.

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