SolidCAM News

SolidCAM®, the leading and fastest-growing CAM system and ModuleWorks, the leading supplier of CAD/CAM components for 5-Axis machining are celebrating 5 years of successful partnership. 5-axis Machining is widely used in the metalworking industry for applications such as Turbine Blade Milling, Impeller Milling, Port Machining and complex Moldmaking.
 
Way back in 2003, SolidCAM realised the growing demand for 5-axis Machining. Given the technical challenges involved and SolidCAM policy of aiming to provide best-in-class solutions wherever possible, it was decided to partner with ModuleWorks. Initial integration and training built up to the official launch of the simultaneous 5-axis module in SolidCAM2004 R9. The initial reaction from resellers, customers and prospects was very positive and SolidCAM today is at the cutting edge of 5-axis Machining technology. Over the last 5 years SolidCAM has become established as a major player in the 5-axis machining market. Meanwhile SolidCAM expanded its 5-axis technology and added support for additional applications including 5-axis Wood manufacturing, 5-axis trimming, 5-axis drilling and 5-axis laser cutting. InventorCAM features the complete range of SolidCAM's 2.5D, 3D and 5X modules from SolidCAM fully integrated into the Autodesk inventor® 3D CAD software.

iMachining, SolidCAM's new and revolutionary machining technology, was presented at two major events in Asia in June.
 
In DMS 2009, Japan's Design and Manufacturing Solutions Expo held in Tokyo's Big Site June 24-27, iMachining drew the attention of visitors to SolidCAM Japan's booth, including potential customers and milling machine tool manufacturers. Among the well known powerful capabilities of InventorCAM in the full range of 2.5 to 5X machining, iMachining shone in its innovative presence.

Worldsview Technologies has recently become the authorised distributor for the InventorCAM software suite, totally integrated in Autodesk Inventor.
 
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We will be exhibiting InventorCAM R12 at booth # 603 during the AU 2008 Annual User Conference and Exhibition.  The Premier Autodesk Learning and Networking Event takes place on December 2 - 5, 2008 at the Venetian Resort Hotel, Las Vegas, USA.

In order to increase the distribution of InventorCAM in Germany, SolidCAM GmbH established a partnership with Bechtle AG, in Neckarsulm.  Bechtle AG has seven CAD/CAM-oriented offices.  Bechtle AG is one of the largest CAD distributors of Autodesk MCAD and is authorized as "Direct Value Added Reseller".
 
Mr. Markus Grimm, division manager of the 30-member CAD/CAM-group, realized that InventorCAM is the perfect supplement to the Rapid Prototyping Product strategy of Autodesk.

SolidCAM Japan K.K. to enhance presence in the Japanese market. Will present new manufacturing technologies at Tokyo DMS Expo.
 
SolidCAM, the leading and fastest growing supplier of integrated CAM software solutions for the manufacturing industry, today announced the establishment of its Japanese subsidiary, SolidCAM Japan K.K., based in Tokyo, Japan, and the appointment of Norio Ohta  as Sales Manager. The company will focus on supporting and expanding SolidCAM's business in Japan.

Integrated CAM Software for Inventor Offers New Functionality
 
SolidCAM, developers of the integrated CAM engine for Inventor, today announced the release of InventorCAM2007 R11.2. 
 
InventorCAM2007 R11.2 features enhancements to all areas of machining including 2.5D and 3D Milling, Automatic feature recognition and machining, Machining Processes, Turn-Mill and WireEDM. Important enhancements of the High Speed machining and simultaneous 5-axis milling modules in InventorCAM make these powerful tools even more useful for InventorCAM customers.

SolidCAM, a leading and fast-growing supplier of integrated CAM Software solutions for the manufacturing industry, will present its newly introduced version SolidCAM2007 R11 at the Euromold exhibition in Frankfurt.

Appoints Bede Kortegast as VP of Sales for North America, SolidCAM Inc.

During the 2006 IMTS tradeshow in Chicago, USA, SolidCAM debuted its new release of SolidCAM2007 R11. The highlight of this release is a new powerful and market-proven module for High-Speed Machining (HSM) of mold, tools and dies, and complex 3D parts, which further extends SolidCAM`s existing 3D milling capabilities. Visitors to the booth comprised a large number of moldmakers who showed high interest in the demonstration of the new HSM module. They also appreciated SolidCAM`s seamless integration in the 3D-CAD system SolidWorks, which enables single window operation and toolpath associativity – a real “must” to reduce the production lead time.

Powerful and market-proven HSM Module fully integrated in SolidWorks

SolidCAM today announced that it will present SolidCAM2007 R11 to American and European audiences at the IMTS (Chicago/USA) and AMB (Stuttgart/Germany) tradeshows. With this release, SolidCAM is further expanding its 3D Milling functionality by providing a very powerful and market-proven high-speed machining module (HSM) for molds, tools and dies, and complex 3D Parts. The HSM module offers unique machining and linking strategies for generating optimum roughing and finishing CNC high-speed toolpaths. With demands for ever-shorter lead and production times, lower costs and improved quality, High Speed Machining (HSM) is a must in today’s machine shops.

At the METAV show in Dusseldorf, Germany, some SolidCAM machine tool partners demonstrated new CNC machines together with SolidCAM`s 5 axis simultaneous machining capabilities.

In the recent CIMdata Report “NC Software and Related Services Market Assessment V15”, SolidCAM was named as the most rapidly-growing CAM Vendor in the world in 2005, with a +40% growth.

The CIMdata NC Software and Related Services Market Assessment-Version 15 was published on May 23. The NC Software Market Assessment Report provides information about the worldwide market for Numerical Control software products and services.