I am a Product Manager for Inventor and many of our customers count on the CAM tools from the Collection and we work with the CAM team to expand those tools for Inventor. Inventor CAM and Manufacturing environment in Fusion 360 are built from the same code and most of the time functionality is added to both products in their next release. That goes into your next question around development on CAM. We realize for long time HSM customers it may be a big change although the vast majority of Inventor users are not using HSM/Inventor CAM today and we would like to raise awareness to our integrated solution as well as grow the product over time. To help customers know what was an add-in to Inventor we have named each collection add-in with Inventor then the primary function of the add-in. There was a lot of confusion what was an add-in to Inventor and a vast majority of our customers didn't know they even had CAM tools available to them as they weren't aware of the HSM brand. Prior to our 2020 product launch, each of the collection products had their own brand/identity (HSM, Nastran InCAD, Tolerance Analysis and Nesting Utility). I wrote a blog post that has some of the rational behind the name change for CAM and other products in the collection. What can we expect from HSM in the forseeable future? Is it true that we will be pushed/forced into Fusion to get improvements? Solidcam/InventorCAM are known names in the CAM world and are using this name for ages now, so using the same name as them is super confusing for (new)people looking up HSM stuff on the internet and will possibly push them into SolidCam/InventorCAM's arms.īugs, lack of fixes, lack of usefull updates, seemingly slowing down improvements and a constant push to Fusion(CAM?). InventorCAM is a competing CAM system/plugin that is also a certified partner of autodesk, doesn't sound fair to cross them like that.įor the people that don't know this, SolidCAM is the same competing plugin as InventorCAM but for Solidworks. Now there is a bigger gap with HSMworks as well, they don't share anything in the name anymore. The HSM part is now gone and moved into the new name, Inventor CAM.

Solidcam for inventor