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  Autodesk HSM CAM Delivers a Seamless CAD to CAM Solution Autodesk continue to deliver exceptional value to their Industry collections and the recent addition of the Autodesk HSM CAM solution to...

If CAM is your game, then Autodesk Fusion 360 is what you need to be using right now. You can reall our full Fusion 360 Review here. Fusion 360 CAM has 2D, 3D, 4-axis, 5-axis and turning strategies to...

In Autodesk Inventor HSM you can control the machining area by depth for most machining strategies on the Heights tab. The machining area is defined by the Top Height and Bottom Height. On the Heights...

Rest Milling is an acronym for remaining Stock required to be machined. Rest tool paths only remove material left by previous machining operations. They do this by calculating what stock has been prev...

Autodesk Fusion 360 is available to download as a free 30 day trial, there is a button to download the installer further on in this blog post. At the end of you trail period, Fusion 360 standard conti...

How do you collaborate on your 3D CAD models? Back in the good ‘ol days collaboration was easy. The design office was a sea of drawing boards. Anyone wanting to see progress on a project could simply ...

Imagine that you got to completely re-design your CAD system from scratch? What form of 3D modelling would you choose?  Parametric or Direct? Solids or surfaces? Top down or Bottom up? I’m guessi...

Many steel fabricators have invested heavily in advanced CNC machines in recent years, greatly increasing their processing capacity and reducing the amount of costly human errors that inevitably occur...

Here at Graitec we had lots of interest at the MFG user group. Graitec professional series VR department created a bespoke demo set for the event. The focus was around an F1 car as this is of more int...

There is a neat little add in tool called Inventor HSM engrave, which will create single line text, which can then be traced to create the engraving on the machined part.  Most people use AutoCAD...