Curious about the hype around Autodesk’s HSM CAM?

Curious about the hype around Autodesk’s HSM CAM? And now you’re looking for more information and possibly a demonstration? Well, you’ve come to the right place! SolidCAD is not only Canada’s biggest reseller of Autodesk manufacturing solutions, but also the only Canadian Autodesk reseller with a dedicated team of CAM specialists.

HSM CAM is the comprehensive and powerful CNC programming add-on for Inventor (Inventor CAM – included with a subscription to the Product Design and Manufacturing Collection ), Fusion 360 (Fusion 360 Manufacturing – built into Fusion 360), and even SolidWorks (HSMWorks – included with a subscription to Fusion 360).

Please visit our HSM CAM page to read about all the advantages of this integrated CAD/CAM solution and to find lots of technical resources: https://www.solidcad.ca/partner-products/hsm-cam/

Also, try our SolidCAD universal milling post-processor, compatible with a wide variety of 3-axis, 4-axis, and 5-axis machines that accept FANUC-style G-code. This open-source post-processor generates nicely-formatted NC code, and is chock-full of features to make it as flexible as possible. These features include:

• Safe restart feature after M00 program stops
• Automatic date and time stamp function
• Tool table feature in header
• Operation name, tool name, and cycle time at top of each operation
• Activation of accumulated pecking depth feature for G73-style drilling
• Activation of the Manual NC code pass-through feature
• Property to toggle between 3-axis / 4-axis / 5-axis configurations
• Property to set maximal spindle speed
• Property to toggle tool preload on/off
• Property to toggle rigid tapping on/off
• Property to assign an M-code for rigid tapping
• Property to toggle between G54-G59 and G54.1 P1-P300 work offsets
• Property to toggle between G28 and G53 retracts
• Properties to set M-codes for 4^th and 5^th axis brake lock/unlock functions
• Property to toggle on/off the output of rotary axis positions at every operation
• Property to toggle on/off the output of M01 optional stops at tool changes
• Property to toggle on/off automatic spindle gear changes
• Property to set a spindle gear change crossover speed
• Property to toggle between French and English for the output of comments and messages
• Property to toggle on/off lowercase support for comments
• Property to set the rapid rate used for operation time calculations
• Property to toggle on/off the automatic creation of sub-programs for patterns
• Property to toggle between 4 digit and 8-digit program IDs
• Property to toggle on/off the output of the tool list in the program header
• Property to toggle between relative or absolute coordinates for IJKs
• Property to toggle between automatic tool changer or manual tool changes
• Property to toggle between M30 and M99 for program termination
• Property to toggle between returning to home or going to parking position at program end
• Properties to set X- and Y-coordinates for parking position
• Property to convert from feed expressed per min. to feed expressed per second
• Property to inverse Z direction convention
• Property to disable output of all coolant codes

This post processor is available here: https://www.solidcad.ca/solidcad-generic-post-processors-download/