SolidCAM News

SolidCAM, the leading and fastest growing supplier of integrated CAM software solutions for the manufacturing industry, was once again named, the most rapidly-growing CAM vendor worldwide by prominent consulting and market research firm, CIMdata.

In its recently published, “NC Software and Related Services Market Assessment report Version 17”, CIMdata ranked SolidCAM as “the worldwide fastest-growing NC software vendor in 2007 with a revenue growth rate of 37.1%.” CIMdata also forecasted that “SolidCAM again will be a fast-growing vendor in 2008 with a growth rate of 30%.”

Mr. Alan Christman, CIMdata Chairman and primary author of the report, stated that “SolidCAM is implementing a distinctive business and product strategy, their revenue growth rate is exceptional, and they have a broad-based, easy-to-use, competitive CAM product offering” and concluded that “SolidCAM is rapidly becoming a significant player in the worldwide CAM marketplace.”

SolidCAM Japan K.K. to enhance presence in the Japanese market. Will present new manufacturing technologies at Tokyo DMS Expo.
 
SolidCAM, the leading and fastest growing supplier of integrated CAM software solutions for the manufacturing industry, today announced the establishment of its Japanese subsidiary, SolidCAM Japan K.K., based in Tokyo, Japan, and the appointment of Norio Ohta  as Sales Manager. The company will focus on supporting and expanding SolidCAM's business in Japan.

January 15, 2008 - SolidCAM, the leading and fast growing supplier of integrated CAM software solutions for the manufacturing industry, will exhibit at SolidWorks World 2008, one of the world's largest annual 3D CAD events. This international user conference and exposition takes place in the Convention Center of San Diego, CA, U.S.A., January 20 - 23

Popular integrated CAM Software for SolidWorks Offers New Functionality
 
SolidCAM, developers of the integrated Gold-Certified CAM engine for SolidWorks, today announced the release of SolidCAM2007 R11.2. SolidCAM 2007 R11.2 features enhancements to all areas of machining including 2.5D and 3D Milling, Automatic feature recognition and machining, Machining Processes, Turn-Mill and WireEDM. Important enhancements of the High Speed machining and simultaneous 5-axis milling modules in SolidCAM make these powerful tools even more useful for SolidCAM customers.

In a press release from June 4, 2007, CIMdata, the leading worldwide strategic consultancy company, commented about the most rapidly growing CAM software vendors in the market. According to the CIMdata “NC Software and Services Market Assessment Report Version 16”, the worldwide CAM software market grew in 2006 at a rate of 6.9% over 2005. SolidCAM was one of the vendors, that achieved a revenue growth in excess of 30% in 2006. In addition, SolidCAM has been named by CIMdata as the consistent growth leader in CAM over the last five years, with annual growth rates in the 30% range. It is important to note, that SolidCAM achieved this solely by internal growth and without external acquisitions. CIMdata is projecting that SolidCAM will be the most rapidly growing CAM vendor for 2007.

SolidCAM, the leading and fastest-growing supplier of integrated software solutions for the manufacturing industry, will exhibit at SolidWorks World 2007, the world’s largest annual 3D CAD event. This international user conference and exposition takes place in the newly renovated Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, U.S.A., from February, 4 - 7, 2007.

SolidCAM, a leading and fast-growing supplier of integrated CAM Software solutions for the manufacturing industry, will present its newly introduced version SolidCAM2007 R11 at the Euromold exhibition in Frankfurt.

Appoints Bede Kortegast as VP of Sales for North America, SolidCAM Inc.

During the 2006 IMTS tradeshow in Chicago, USA, SolidCAM debuted its new release of SolidCAM2007 R11. The highlight of this release is a new powerful and market-proven module for High-Speed Machining (HSM) of mold, tools and dies, and complex 3D parts, which further extends SolidCAM`s existing 3D milling capabilities. Visitors to the booth comprised a large number of moldmakers who showed high interest in the demonstration of the new HSM module. They also appreciated SolidCAM`s seamless integration in the 3D-CAD system SolidWorks, which enables single window operation and toolpath associativity – a real “must” to reduce the production lead time.

Powerful and market-proven HSM Module fully integrated in SolidWorks

SolidCAM today announced that it will present SolidCAM2007 R11 to American and European audiences at the IMTS (Chicago/USA) and AMB (Stuttgart/Germany) tradeshows. With this release, SolidCAM is further expanding its 3D Milling functionality by providing a very powerful and market-proven high-speed machining module (HSM) for molds, tools and dies, and complex 3D Parts. The HSM module offers unique machining and linking strategies for generating optimum roughing and finishing CNC high-speed toolpaths. With demands for ever-shorter lead and production times, lower costs and improved quality, High Speed Machining (HSM) is a must in today’s machine shops.

In a press release from June 20, 2006, the leading worldwide strategic consultancy company CIMdata commented about those CAM software suppliers, which are growing much faster than the market. According to the CIMdata NC Software and Related Services Market Assessment Version 15, the worldwide CAM software market grew in 2005 at a rate of 6.5% over 2004.

At the METAV show in Dusseldorf, Germany, some SolidCAM machine tool partners demonstrated new CNC machines together with SolidCAM`s 5 axis simultaneous machining capabilities.

RENATE, a national center in Norway founded by The Ministry of Education and Research, has purchased last year up to 30,000 licenses of SolidWorks® Education Edition software to teach more than 60,000 junior high school and high school students engineering fundamentals and reinvigorate the country's manufacturing industry.

In the recent CIMdata Report “NC Software and Related Services Market Assessment V15”, SolidCAM was named as the most rapidly-growing CAM Vendor in the world in 2005, with a +40% growth.

The CIMdata NC Software and Related Services Market Assessment-Version 15 was published on May 23. The NC Software Market Assessment Report provides information about the worldwide market for Numerical Control software products and services.

The upcoming SolidCAM R11 major release was previewed at SolidWorks World 2006, held in Las-Vegas on Jan 23-25.

SolidCAM was exhibited at SolidWorks World India at Bangalore on Sep 23. SolidCAM is currently putting a strong emphasis on the Indian market in cooperation with SolidCAM's major reseller in India, Best Engineering Aids & Consultancies.  

SolidCAM is a Gold sponsor of the SolidWorks World Greater China 2005 exhibition to be held in Shanghai at June 30. Mr. Doron Sashkis, SolidCAM's Intl. Sales/Support manager and Mr. Bernard Chew, responsible for Sales/Support in Asia-Pacific, will be managing the SolidCAM booth at the exhibition and providing a presentation on the latest SolidCAM2006 R10 version to the exhibition attendees.  

The CIMdata NC Software and Related Services Market Assessment-Version 14 was published on June 7. The NC Software Market Assessment Report provides information about the worldwide market for Numerical Control software products and services.

SolidCAM2006 R10 is a major release of SolidCAM which includes many improvements, new functionalities and major performance enhancements.

SolidCAM has today received the SolidCAM product review prepared by Alan Christman from CIMdata inc. 

SolidCAM has appointed a number of new resellers in the Asia-Pacific region. These resellers are from China, Hong-Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Mr. Jesse Lee Hong, SolidCAM's Asia-Pacific Business development manager, acting from Singapore and Beijing, is managing this major expansion.