05-05-2016, 01:36 AM
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AKA: Cory McBride
 FRC #0254 (The Cheesy Poofs) Team Role: Engineer
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Join Date: May 2002
Rookie Year: 2001
Location: Redwood City, CA
Posts: 6,787
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Re: Best CAM software
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Originally Posted by sanddrag
If you're willing to switch to Inventor, you can get Inventor HSM Professional for free if you're a school, student, or educator. Long story short, it does just about everything. Also, since Autodesk owns HSM now, you'll probably get updates sooner in Inventor than you will in SolidWorks.
HSMWorks, HSM Express, Fusion 360, etc all use the same CAM kernel and roughly the same user interface. It's a harmony we call Autodesk CAM. |
He can get HSMWorks for Solidworks for free too. But it definitely has fewer features.
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