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Shawn McEachern
Creating Custom Mill Tools and Holders in SOLIDWORKS CAM
By Shawn McEachern on May 7, 2020
SOLIDWORKS CAM comes with many predefined standard milling tools to help us make short work of our projects. In the event you find yourself having to use something specialized, a custom tool can be added to your SOLIDWORKS CAM TechDB. Create the custom tool with…
SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2020 supports glTF Export for Extended Reality
By Shawn McEachern on March 3, 2020
Developed by the Khronos Group, glTF™ (GLTF Transmission Format) is intended to be an efficient, inter-operable file format with minimum file size and run-time processing by apps. glTF files contain information such as geometry, appearances, textures, animations, motion studies, configurations, display states, exploded views, lights,…
SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2020 supports IES Light Profiles
By Shawn McEachern on March 2, 2020
The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) has defined a file format which describes a light’s distribution from a light source using real world measured data. These IES Photometric files, or IES Profiles, are a lighting industry standard method of diagramming the brightness and falloff of light…
SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2020 supports AxF™ measured materials
By Shawn McEachern on February 25, 2020
Traditionally, design teams have approximated the physical (optical) behavior of materials in digital tools through tedious and time-consuming manual re-creation and editing. These “hand-made” virtual representations are neither accurate nor able to be shared across the numerous design and rendering tools. AxF™ files from X-Rite…
SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2020 supports AMD ProRender
By Shawn McEachern on February 11, 2020
Great news for AMD fans! AMD Radeon™ ProRender, a powerful physics-based rendering engine that enables creative professionals to produce stunningly photorealistic images. Built on highly efficient, high-performance Radeon Rays technology, Radeon ProRender’s complete, scalable ray tracing engine uses open industry standards to harness GPU and…
SOLIDWORKS CAM is powered by CAMWorks. But what is included with SOLIDWORKS CAM and CAMWorks? Compare the features in the table below: Product SOLIDWORKS CAM CAMWorks CNC Programming Capability Standard Professional Standard Milling Professional Turning Professional Premium 2.5 Axis & limited 3 3 Axis Milling…
SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 9/9: Post Processing NC Code
By Shawn McEachern on September 21, 2019
Previous article: SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 8/9: Simulate Toolpaths Once we are happy with our set-up, we need to export a text file that contains the program of G and M codes for the CNC machine to cut the part. To generate toolpaths, click…
SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 8/9: Simulate Toolpaths
By Shawn McEachern on September 17, 2019
Previous article: SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 7/9: Generating Toolpaths The integrated simulator in SOLIDWORKS CAM is a great way to preview your set-up and trouble shoot issues. Click Simulate Toolpath in the CAM command manager or right-mouse on Mill Part Setup1 and select Simulate…
SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 7/9: Generating Toolpaths
By Shawn McEachern on September 13, 2019
Previous article: SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 6/9: Sorting Operations Now, we convert our set-up parameters into geometry that will guide the tool. To generate toolpaths, click Generate Toolpath in the CAM command manager or tight-mouse on Mill Part Setup1 and select Generate Toolpath. Operations…
SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 6/9: Sorting Operations
By Shawn McEachern on September 10, 2019
Previous article: SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 5/9: Generate Operation Plan SOLIDWORKS CAM Sorting Operations is a simple process, click Sort in the CAM command manager or right-mouse on Mill Part Setup1 and select Sort Operations. In the Sort tab we may reorder the operations…
SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 5/9: Generate Operation Plan
By Shawn McEachern on September 2, 2019
Previous articles: SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 4/9: Extract Machinable Features Once our features have been defined, we may generate our operation plan. Click Generate Operation Plan in the CAM command manager or pick your right-mouse-button on Mill Part Set-up1 and select Generate Operation Plan….
SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 4/9: Extract Machinable Features
By Shawn McEachern on August 20, 2019
Previous article: SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 3/9: Defining Coordinate System Now that we have set-up our machine, defined the stock and the coordinates, SOLIDWORKS CAM will automatically extract machinable features from the model for machining. First, we need to set the options. Here we…
SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 3/9: Defining Coordinate System
By Shawn McEachern on March 30, 2019
Previous article: SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 2/9: Defining Stock In this article, we will define our Coordinate System for 2.5/3 axis milling with SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard. The Coordinate System setup indicated on the part will become the work offset for machining (ex. G54). It…
SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 2/9: Defining Stock
By Shawn McEachern on March 12, 2019
Previous article: SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 1/9: Defining Machine In this article we will define our Stock for 2.5/3 axis milling. SOLIDWORKS CAM has versatile tools for quickly defining the size of the stock while maintaining references to the part so geometry changes update…
SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard Milling Setup 1/9: Defining Machine
By Shawn McEachern on March 8, 2019
In this article, we will define our CNC Machine for 2.5/3 axis milling in SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard. To machine our parts properly we must define the capabilities of our CNC Machine. Defining a CNC Machine In the SOLIDWORKS CAM Feature Tree we can define our…