Other updates add efficiency to tool path creation. CAMWorks was the first SolidWorks CAM solution to achieve Gold certification.

An update to CAMWorks from Geometric Ltd. now supports SolidWorks 2012, and offers other improvements.

Key updates:

• Support for SolidWorks 2012
• Feature recognition performance and recognition improvements
• Version 4.0 of VoluMill with new Non-Concentric Milling technology that reduces cutting-tool loads, and evacuates chips more effectively, thereby increasing the tool life
• Reduction in the time taken to save the files containing a large number of tool path moves
• Ability to add new tools into the TechDB from within CAMWorks
• Shaded display of Contain and Avoid areas
• Turn roughing operations now support user defined inserts

More information:  www.camworks.com.