Autodesk HSMWorks 2012 R5 is now available and supports SolidWorks 2013. Autodesk HSMWorks will continue to be developed and we will continue to release updates. Will Autodesk HSMWorks continue to be developed and Will I Get Updates? The product will continue under the new name, Autodesk HSMWorks, but the technology remains the same. However, Tom Mortensen, founder and owner of Copenhagen, Denmark-based HSMWorks, responded in the forum by posting this FAQ:Īside from the obvious name change, nothing. These big buyouts are daunting, and the end-user doesn’t necessarily benefit in the end.” “Our company has no plans to switch engineering environments,” he continued, “but neither do we want to attach ourselves to a dead-end plug in, if that’s the direction HSMWorks is heading. Obviously Autodesk’s goals and direction are not to advance Solidworks’ userbase and profits, but its own (with Inventor, Autocad, etc…). “As a relatively new customer to HSMWorks,” wrote a member with user name Michael Webster, who started a thread on the topic, “I’d like some sort of reassurance regarding the continued development of HSMWorks for/as a Solidworks plug in. On the HSMWorks forum, some users expressed confusion as to why Autodesk would continue to support a software package that supports a direct competitor. “Autodesk has a long history of making design and engineering technology more accessible, and we look forward to bringing HSMWorks’ CAM technology to a broader group of users.”

“The acquisition of the HSMWorks technology brings machining expertise and next-generation CAM technology to the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of manufacturing software,” said Buzz Kross, Autodesk senior vice president, design, simulation and lifecycle products, in a statement. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Through the acquisition of the HSMWorks technology, the company said in a release, Autodesk will add software to control machine tools and related machinery to its portfolio of software for manufacturing. The company’s tag line is, “The CAM solution for SolidWorks.”

Specifically, the company’s flagship HSMWorks software “integrates directly into the SolidWorks 3D design software, “offering a single user interface for both CAD and CAM.” SAN FRANCISCO – Autodesk announced today it has acquired certain assets of HSMWorks Aps, a developer of computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software. Software is a plug in for competitive SolidWorks product – what does that mean?

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