SmartCAM V16

This new version delivers a variety of new enhancements and capabilities, including automated toolpath generation directly from a solid model, additional solid model translation, and visualisation, verification and usability improvements. SmartCAMcnc plans the standard release of version 16.0 for early June. The SmartCAM product family consists of applications for CNC milling, turning, fabrication and wire EDM. Version 16.0 continues the Solids-Machining theme found in the past four major SmartCAM releases, with key improvements to both solid data handling and machining directly from a solid. Version 16 adds new toolpath generation routines for roughing and finishing prismatic pocket and profile features directly from the solid to the mid-level SmartCAM Advanced Milling and SmartCAM Advanced Turning products, as well as the company’s premier milling application, SmartCAM FreeForm Machining. Another major component of the SmartCAM V16 release is a new integrated data translator that now allows both import and export of solid or wireframe models in the STEP format. Additionally, fully integrated, native-file format translators for Autodesk Inventor and SolidWorks are optionally available with SmartCAM V16.0.