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HSMXpress Now Available – Free CAM for SolidWorks

It only took a few days for HSMWorks to follow CAMWorks adding another Xpress (“Light Version”) CAM solution to run inside SolidWorks. I picked the following feature highlights from the HSMXpress section on HSMWorks website. What is HSMXpress? HSMXpress was … Continue reading

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Engineering Technology, The year 1999

Fifth leg of the DE Desktop Engineering magazine inspired walk down CAD/CAM and engineering historie lane. Check out 1995 and/or 1996 and/or 1997 and/or 1998. Intel launches Pentium III I am absolutely no hardware geek, but with a cool codename … Continue reading

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Engineering Technology, The year 1998

We are on the fourth leg of the DE Desktop Engineering magazine inspired walk down CAD/CAM and engineering historie lane. Check out 1995 and/or 1996 and/or 1997. Google is officialy founded Strange to think that there actually was a time … Continue reading

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Engineering Technology, The year 1997

We are on the third leg of the DE Desktop Engineering magazine inspired walk down CAD/CAM and engineering historie lane. Check out 1995 and/or 1996. Dassault Systems acquires SolidWorks A France company that was started Marcel Dassault, he invented a … Continue reading

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Engineering Technology, The year 1996

Continuing with the DE Desktop Engineering magazine inspired history run, we enter the year 1996. The internet has climbed to 40 million users, and the CAD/CAM world has not stopped moving either. Geometric launches CAMWorks Geometric was set up as … Continue reading

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Engineering Technology, The year 1995

One of my favorite engineering magazines DE, Desktop Engineering did a fun thing in there December edition. Listing important Engineering events all the way from 1995 through the year 2010. I have to admit that I have not read all … Continue reading

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DraftSight, Could this be your best 2D solution?

If you are a regular SolidWorks forum, blog reader or possible talked to your reseller latly, you might already be familiar with this Dassault product named DraftSight…Anyways, we are going to spend the next few hundred words getting some of … Continue reading

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Your chance to make your CAD/CAM sweeter looking.

So just as we got the looks of cadcamstuff.com looking a little sweeter for your eyes, NVIDIA decide to give you a chance to make it even better. I received an email from Brian Harrison, the Director of NVIDIA’s Software … Continue reading

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A brighter and tastier look for cadcamstuff

I hope you like the new steam boiled look here on cadcamstuff.com. 2010 has been a year of change starting with an address change in the beginning of the year, and then a few months ago I was lucky enough … Continue reading

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Solidworks knitting toolpaths with HSMWorks

Continuing with some more exploring of HSMWorks (The milling package integrated inside Solidworks). I’m going to do a quick dance through a simple pocket toolpath, so you can take a look at these screen shots and tell me that this … Continue reading

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