The Complete Guide to Buying CAM Solutions

SOLIDWORKS CAM Professional

SOLIDWORKS CAM Professional builds on the capabilities of CAM Standard. In addition to those features, the Professional tool features assembly machining, Automatic Feature Recognition, and support for CNC lathe turning and VoluMill high-speed machining. Programmers using this tool can also take advantage of 4 and 5-axis positioning with 3 + 2 milling.

Ideal for Manufacturers Who:

• Are already equipped with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD
• Manufacture parts and assemblies
• Require 2.5-axis turning capabilities
• Require 3 + 2 milling capabilities

CAMWorks Premium Bundle

CAMWorks Premium is the ultimate integrated CAM solution for SOLIDWORKS users. This advanced tool combines all of the features in Milling Professional and Turning Professional, along with adding superior 4 & 5-axis simultaneous milling.

Ideal for Manufacturers Who Want:

• Seamless integration into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD
• Up to 5-axis milling with multi-axis machining
• Support for rotary milling
• Mill-turn (up to 11-axis) and multi-function machining
• Sub-spindle programming
• G-code machine simulation

CAMWorks Turning Professional Bundle

CAMWorks Turning Professional is the ultimate CNC programming solution for advanced turning and mill-turn functions. The software also includes Sync Manager for simultaneous machining and Virtual Machine Standard for full machine simulation with collision detection.

Ideal for Manufacturers Who Want:

• Seamless integration into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD
• Support for rotary milling
• Mill-turn (up to 11-axis) and multi-function machining
• Sub-spindle programming
• G-code machine simulation

CAMWorks Milling Professional Bundle

CAMWorks Milling Professional is the most advanced 3-axis CNC programming solution available for SOLIDWORKS. It includes advanced 3-axis rough milling with rest machining and VoluMill for high-speed machining. Finishing cycles include Z-level (waterline), flat area, pattern project, constant step-over, pencil milling, and curve project for engraving on 3D surfaces.

Ideal for Manufacturers Who Want:

• Seamless integration into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD
• 3-axis milling
• Mill-turn and multi-function machining

CAMWorks Wire EDM

This specialty CAM tool from CAMWorks was developed specifically for programming 2 through 4-axis Wire EDM CNC machines. Like all CAMWorks products, it fully integrates with SOLIDWORKS.

Key Benefits of Wire EDM:

• Automate the creation of rough, skim, and tab cuts
• Automatically change the processing order options with a single command
• Choose between the output of only rough cuts, only tab cuts, or both
• Easily switch between different machine code outputs

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SOLIDWORKS CAMWorks Tutorial: Part 1 - Introduction to Feature and Knowledge Based CAM  Read More...

In this first part of our four part Introduction to CAMWorks series, we primarily cover what separates CAMWorks from the rest of the CAM ecosystem. CAMWorks' unique functionality allows us to save our machining best practices to a central database which can be shared with other programmers. This makes CAMWorks an automation-forward CNC programming suite. Ensuring that you can "tweak once, save later" substantially reduces time spent in the CAM programming phase. Follow the rest of the series to view the full workflow and how to customize your Technology Database (TechDB).

SOLIDWORKS CAMWorks Tutorial: Part 2 - The Technology Database  Read More...

In this second part of our four part Introduction to CAMWorks series, we go over how to begin customizing the Technology Database. Teh TechDB is the core plumbing for CAMWorks' automation. This automation begins with setting up our machines and tool cribs. This video is a guided tour through setting up a 3 axis mill as well as simple tool crib. Setting up a machine with a default tool crib and post processor is just one of the many strategies that can be used with CAMWorks to make CNC programming as automated as possible. For additional methods and strategies to best fit your shop floor, don't hesitate to reach out.

SOLIDWORKS CAMWorks Tutorial: Part 3 - Programming & Saving Strategies  Read More...

In the third part of our four-part Introduction to CAMWorks series, we cover how to customize the default settings for CAMWorks to best suit our shops. CAMWorks can automatically recognize prismatic machining features and has stock series of operations for each of these features called strategies. All of these are intended as starting points to be customized for each machine shop. This video goes through interactively setting up a feature and customizing the operations applied to that feature, then saving the series of operations as a new feature to use automatically on a future part. Repeating this workflow as you save already-known best practices or discover new ones are the key to maximizing the value and time savings of CAMWorks. Each of these strategies can be saved on a machine, material, or tool basis thus ensuring that the best fit can be found for any shop.

SOLIDWORKS CAMWorks Tutorial: Part 4 - Optimize Your Programming with the TechDB  Read More...

In the finale of this 4-part series, we go over CAMWorks and SOLIDWORKS CAM features and workflows. This is aimed to familiarize prospective customers with the software and feature set as the feature- and knowledge-based programming and automation features are quite powerful. This video completes our customizations from Part 3 and summarizes the benefits of CAMWorks