Well, there are so many things going on at Autodesk with HSMWorks, Inventor HSM and Fusion 360 Ultimate that I can’t wait any longer!
HSMWorks 2015 and HSMXpress have been released today to be compatible with Solidworks 2015 and enhancements. Check out the video of the new features or this post.
Inventor HSM 2015 Update 4 brought some much needed features with the most significant I can see being various Stock Definitions and Check Surfaces.
Fusion 360 Ultimate is to include CAM for Fusion 360.
Inventor HSM Stock Definitions
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Stock Definitions |
The most significant of these are the Round Stock and From Solid. Now you can model the casting and finished part using the casting for the stock and the finished part for the model.
There are more examples of when you would use this but this is the easiest to explain in a couple of lines.
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Check Surfaces |