SOLIDWORKS CAM

What is SOLIDWORKS CAM?

SOLIDWORKS CAM is the integrated CAM solution for SOLIDWORKS upon registration, allowing simple 2.5D and 3D toolpaths for milling machines. Powered by CAMWorks, SOLIDWORKS Gold Partner, SOLIDWORKS CAM provides a similar interface that makes learning easy. With a common foundation and a simpler workflow, SOLIDWORKS CAM unifies both the design and manufacturing team, delivering a better CNC experience. This integrated solution also allows for toolpath parameter updates and timely bypasses to third-party software exports. SOLIDWORKS CAM learns as you program, allowing you to reuse programming data on previous sections to make future parts programmable with just a few clicks.

Parametric programming

SOLIDWORKS CAM is an integrated CAM solution that allows users to program by reference to faces, edges and other geometry on your CAD file directly in SOLIDWORKS. Changes to your design are immediately recognized by SOLIDWORKS CAM and toolpaths updated automatically.

More efficient over time

SOLIDWORKS CAM learns your machining style as you program each part. Save your machining strategies to the Technology Database, which can be quickly reapplied to future parts, dramatically reducing programming time.

Machining is based on tolerance

Take advantage of MBD and tolerance sizes in SOLIDWORKS! SOLIDWORKS CAM will use this information to automatically suggest the right machining strategies, simplifying the design to the manufacturing process.

NC editor

In addition to simulation in software, NC Editor comes with Backplotting which can help verify a programmed part correctly, avoiding costly mistakes when sending the program to a CNC milling machine.

Automatic identification feature

SOLIDWORKS CAM can help you program your part by automatically identifying where it should place toolpaths. The technology behind this tool has long been available in SOLIDWORKS as FeatureWorks, an add-on that attempts to rebuild the SOLIDWORKS Feature Tree on imported solids such as .iges and .step files.

Features also include:

• Model-based definition (MBD) is leveraged to ensure machining strategies are automatically adjusted based on tolerance specifications
• Automatic feature recognition allows prismatic components to be programmed automatically while referencing programming standards
• 2.5 axis functionality including part machining & assembly

SOLIDWORKS CAM provides a suite of tools that combine industry-leading rendering capabilities with design-oriented features and workflows. Import SOLIDWORKS and many other CAD formats to create complex machining strategies ready in minutes.

Benefits of SOLIDWORKS CAM

SOLIDWORKS CAM is a fully integrated knowledge-based technology that allows you to integrate design and manufacturing processes under one system for early design evaluation in the process to avoid unexpected costs. and delays in making the product on time. SOLIDWORKS CAM leverages rich content in 3D CAD models to speed product development and reduce manual steps that are error-prone, time-consuming, and iterative in existing development processes, like programming CNC machine. Knowledge-based outsourcing (KBM) is the foundation for simplifying the programming process, learning as you program free up your time to focus on the critical areas of the components.

SOLIDWORKS CAM is plugin for all versions of SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD

• Identify certain geometries that are not only CAD features, but also to understand the production value of those features and even the cost of production.
• Read tolerances and surface finishes and make decisions about how the product is manufactured
• Automatically apply the best production strategies you want to use so that your production process is not only faster but more standardized
• Automatically quote and compare it with traditional methods to ensure all aspects of the part are counted ahead of time