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Lars Christensen

Oct 30, 2014
2 min

What’s New from HSMWorks 2015

It’s that time again! SolidWorks released 2015, and HSMWorks is assuring that your best integrated CAM option fits right in with its 2015 release. HSMWorks has always stood out as a company that did not follow every other CAM lead. The fact is that though HSMWorks does release a major version every year, they also stuff new features in the Service Packs as they become available. This means that HSMWorks users actually get goodies all year round. It is also worth noting that t

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Lars Christensen

Jan 10, 2013
1 min

SolidWorks EPDM is CAM Friendly!

Know all the bells of “SolidWorks Enterprise Product Data Management”(aka EPDM)? This long fancy title does come with a lot of functions. Data security, Project creation, Rev control and so much more…Misconception is that this product is expensive and only for huge companies…However… Came across this little manufacturing problem: “CAM programmer is starting out another wonderful day creating code for a later run on B-shift. Upon verifying, simulating and post processing the

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SolidWorks Bounding Box, Best Underrated 2013 Feature

Lars Christensen

Jan 3, 2013
1 min

SolidWorks Bounding Box, Best Underrated 2013 Feature

The most underrated new feature in SolidWorks 2013, “The 3D Boundary Box!”. If you are like me, cut lists, square tubing and welding takes 2nd place compared to the smell of coolant and chips slamming against the Plexiglas. The new bounding box feature found under SolidWorks Weldments might not seem like worth taking a look at…Well, Wrong! SolidWorks had all the reasons to present this feature as a weldment. The example introduced was a quick way to update the description fie

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Using CAMWorks Material Library will make your life easier

Lars Christensen

Oct 3, 2012
1 min

Using CAMWorks Material Library will make your life easier

Ever had one of those things on your to-do list that you know you should have done something about a long time ago? 1. By limited time spend you can comfortably forget about feeds and speeds when programing your standard parts 2. In conjunction with CAMWorks philosophy, you can teach the Material library how your do things in your shop 3. Picking a Material to machine and the software recognize what machine and conditions you are up against and adjust the feeds and speed ac

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Nesting Super Powers in SolidWorks with CAMWorks Nesting

Lars Christensen

Jul 31, 2012
1 min

Nesting Super Powers in SolidWorks with CAMWorks Nesting

CAMWorks is handing out a helping hand to the fabrication community! 1st. thing that stands out to me is how easy this add-on is to use. You have just finished your stress full design process, and getting things to actually result in something that can be cut on the Laser, Waterjet or speed through the Wood router seems like an impossible task. Well, CAMWorks Nesting might just be the tool that is going to prevent you from another late night fighting stock sizes and layouts.

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DFMXpress=Your FREE Design For Manufacturing Consulting inside SolidWorks

Lars Christensen

Jun 5, 2012
2 min

DFMXpress=Your FREE Design For Manufacturing Consulting inside SolidWorks

It will happen, one day you will receive a part that is nearly impossible to manufacture. Not because the part is on the “top secret out of space” difficult level, but because something as simple as an unexperienced engineer/designer did not realize that there is some physics rules that apply to make a design that actually can be manufactured in a very competitive industry. DFMXpress… SolidWorks has a nifty tool that pretty quickly can run an analysis on you part, and provide

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How to add your custom strategy right into CAMWorks techdb

Lars Christensen

Feb 23, 2012
1 min

How to add your custom strategy right into CAMWorks techdb

Be Prepared… I always recommend that you do a backup of your technology database. As I stated in this video, How to save back your shop knowledge to CAMWorks TechDb I have never seen the database go corrupt, but I have made stupid alterations to my database that made a backup at hand priceless. #CADCAM #CAMWorks #CNC

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HSMXpress Now Available – Free CAM for SolidWorks

Lars Christensen

Dec 5, 2011
1 min

HSMXpress Now Available – Free CAM for SolidWorks

I picked the following feature highlights from the HSMXpress section on HSMWorks website. What is HSMXpress? HSMXpress was created to show designers, engineers, and even veteran CNC programmers that integrated CAM not only makes sense, but you shouldn’t settle for anything less. *HSMXpress requires SolidWorks 2009 or newer; and Microsoft® Windows XP®, Windows Vista®, Windows® 7 (General Release; 64-bit or 32-bit). *Same 64-bit, Multi-core HSM CAM Kernel as HSMWorks. *Industr

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Lars Christensen

Nov 30, 2011
1 min

CAMWorks introducing an Xpress version

I picked out the following FAQ’s from CAMWorksXpress website. What is CAMWorksXpress? CAMWorksXpress is the new and easy to use CAM package that offers seamless integration within SolidWorks and the flexibility to explore and utilize the highly powerful features required for machining your parts efficiently. What are the supported operating systems? CAMWorksXpress is a Windows operating system based software program. It is designed to run on both 32-bit and 64-bit Vista and

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Lars Christensen

Nov 10, 2011
1 min

MFG.com challenges you!

According to my trusted source, Wikipedia, it is estimated that there was spend more than 500 billion dollars on advertising in 2010. Now as a “middle aged man”(Also according to Wikipedia) I would like to believe that this expensive, but rather often simple propaganda are below my intelligence for having much effect. Can you make this part? Well there I am, kids are screaming of hunger, the dog needs go outside, and I am sitting studying an advertising showing something tha

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Surprise!…CAMWorks 2012 is here!…So what’s new?

Lars Christensen

Oct 31, 2011
1 min

Surprise!…CAMWorks 2012 is here!…So what’s new?

So what is in the 2012 basket of new and good stuff? Pin/Unpin Property Manager Pages… Ease of managing tools for Mill/Mill-Turn… 1. Performance of Saving Files with Large Amount of Tool Paths. (They tested this with files containing more than 1.5 million toolpath moves, Ouch.) 2. Contain/Avoid Area Display. (One of my favorite tools, got a nice face lift.) 3. VoluMill Toolpath. (Update to VoluMill version 4.0. This is a must if you remove a lot of material.) 4. Improved Perf

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Lars Christensen

Jul 20, 2011
1 min

CAMWorks makes eDrawings one cut better

One of my favorite features in CAMWorks is that the stock manager automaticly displays the minimum requried stock size needed for your part. *Markup tools is part of eDrawing Professional that comes standard with SolidWorks Professional and Premium #Solidworks #CAMWorks #eDrawing #CAM #CADCAM

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Lars Christensen

Jun 20, 2011
1 min

SolidWorks Presents CAD/CAM SLAM!

I have to admit that my internet search skills has let me down this time. Some of these CAD/CAM SLAM! webinar’s missed my radar. March 23th Solidcam April 27th Delcam May 12th Mastercam And I really haven’t had much luck finding anyone of them online. I have reached out to SolidWorks since they are always so helpful. My thought is that a SolidWorks CAD/CAM SLAM! category would be really cool here on cadcamstuff. So if you read this post and know where I can get a hold of yo

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Lars Christensen

Feb 10, 2011
2 min

The CAMWorks Handbook (Milling)

To wrap your head around modern CAM options and functionalities can be a frustrating task, especially if sitting in front of a computer with a waiting CNC machine sitting on the shop floor hungry for some NC code. It dosent really matter if you are a seasoned CAM guru changing CAM system or a new CAM guy privileged to enter the Computer Aided Manufacturing world, somehow you need to travel down the street of learning. CAMWorks just added its first book for the toolbox of lea

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SolidWorks kickstarts a busy CAD&CAM 2011 fall season

Lars Christensen

Nov 18, 2010
1 min

SolidWorks kickstarts a busy CAD&CAM 2011 fall season

It seems like only a few days ago the hotdogs where sizzling on the grill, backyard bonfires, and the CAD/CAM world more or less asleep. But as we find ourselfs here in the middle of November the reality is that the wonderful world of Design, Engineering and Manufacturing has awaken and actually been pretty busy as of late. Here is a quick recap… Conclusion… So it has defiantly been a busy couple of months on the CAD&CAM planet. Hopefully this pushing of new computer aided

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HSMWorks for Solidworks is like a smoothie for your code

Lars Christensen

Jun 11, 2010
2 min

HSMWorks for Solidworks is like a smoothie for your code

When looking to justify investing in something as important as CAM, you might end up sitting with a long list of new functions you never knew was needed, ever existed, and possible maybe not even truly understand what really do. On top of that your brain is swirling with the daunting price you have to justify to make this new adventure possible. A NC-code editor is most likely not on your list, however I know from myself that I use more time in my editor, than many of those

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Lars Christensen

Jun 1, 2010
1 min

BobCAD-CAM now roars inside Solidworks

I’m having a hard time finding anything negative to say about getting my CAM inside Solidworks, and it seems like the major CAM companies has realized that they better got on the Solidworks-train. BobCAD-CAM has been known for doing things differently compared to there competitors. No resellers, openly posting prices on there website, free post processor modifications, and very affordably. BobCAD-CAM has been many startup shops entrance in to the CAD/CAM world. I think it is

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HSMWorks verifies an Ipad inside Solidworks

Lars Christensen

May 19, 2010
2 min

HSMWorks verifies an Ipad inside Solidworks

Fruit fanatic or not, Appel’s Ipad is most defiantly the hottest rocking geek topic these days, and Mike Puckett who is one of Solidworks certification specialists modeled up one of these wonders and is gracefully sharing it on 3dcontentcentral. Now if you are up for prizes, pretty renderings and Ipads, I would recommend that you swing by Solidsmack.com and check out "Ipad model rendering challenge. Snack a 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator" for some fun. Using Solidworks juicy mo

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Learning Solidworks while dreaming of open roads

Lars Christensen

Apr 27, 2010
1 min

Learning Solidworks while dreaming of open roads

So when you come across a site where your hands starts getting sweaty and you are scrambling for the bookmark button because a power outage would be devastating. Adding the bonus of Solidworks and learning on top of that what more can you ask for? Check it out for yourself solidworksmodel.com #CAD #Solidworks #CADCAM #tutorials #learning

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Solidworks knitting toolpaths with HSMWorks

Lars Christensen

Apr 20, 2010
2 min

Solidworks knitting toolpaths with HSMWorks

Continuing with some more exploring of HSMWorks (The milling package integrated inside Solidworks). I’m going to do a quick dance through a simple pocket toolpath, so you can take a look at these screen shots and tell me that this gold partner hasn’t done a splendid job integrating CAM into Solidworks. Toolpath drop down… HSMWorks, welding CAM onto Solidworks So no really doubt that integrated CAM inside Solidworks looks totally cool. So what are some of the advantages of s

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About Me

What I'm doing now

YouTube and Social content creation

What I'm doing now

YouTube and Social content creation

Lars Christensen