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It seems Autodesk kickstarted what we've been expecting to see for years: the amalgamation of the CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) industry. (It has too many small players.) Autodesk (headquartered in USA) bought a CAM system designed for SolidWorks (a kick in the bollocks, we presume) from Denmark
...and now Siemens PLM (nominally of the USA) bought Kineo CAM of France. What is with the allergy to buying US CAM firms?
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Hi Ralph,
Don't get to excited here. I went to Kineo's site earlier today and it appears they will be adding to the design side of things with motion analysis of stuff like robots for I presume work cells and assembly lines. This is not for actual cnc machining like HSMWorks.
Posted by: Dave Ault | Oct 08, 2012 at 12:58 PM
"What is with the allergy to buying US CAM firms"
Mastercam is the most popular CAM program in the US and all it has going for it is market share. Mastercam is dated, and wastes tons of a users time by requiring constant chaining of geometry for toolpath. I've used Mastercam almost everyday for the last five years.
The best thing that could happen to Mastercam it is that it be sold to an owner who cares. Mastercam needs to be completely rewritten from the ground up.
Jon Banquer
CADCAM Technology Leader group on LinkedIn
Posted by: Jon Banquer | Oct 08, 2012 at 07:11 PM