CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
4 October 2007
Product News
Delcam's PartMaker Awarded Certified CAM Partner Status by SolidWorks
Delcam's PartMaker Inc. subsidiary announced that the latest version of its PartMaker suite of CAM products has been awarded "Certified CAM Product" status by the SolidWorks Partner Program. To attain this certification, the PartMaker suite of products had to meet criteria outlined by SolidWorks Corp., including a high level interoperability with the most recent version of SolidWorks.
The Certified CAM Product designation was developed by SolidWorks to help end users easily identify best-in-class CNC software products that work well with SolidWorks geometry. The Certified CAM Product award indicates that, in the view of SolidWorks Corp., PartMaker has demonstrated "world-class CAM functionality, integration and interoperability with SolidWorks applications and associative design changes."
"Achieving Certified CAM Product status is an import milestone for the PartMaker family of products," says PartMaker Inc. President Hanan Fishman. "PartMaker's development team is dedicated to providing the highest level of interoperability to its SolidWorks users. SolidWorks is the most popular 3D design system chosen by both existing and potential PartMaker users, so knowing PartMaker is a Certified CAM product will reassure these users they are achieving a very high level of productivity when pairing PartMaker and SolidWorks."
"In addition, as over 70% of PartMaker users are contract manufacturers, even our customers who do not have SolidWorks often receive engineering data from their clients who do use this design software. Thus, this designation will allow PartMaker users to better market their capabilities to their customers, so enhancing the value they receive from PartMaker."
PartMaker users can directly import SolidWorks files in their native *.SLDPRT format, as well as host of other solids formats supported by SolidWorks. Solid model assemblies can also be imported directly as well. The latest version of PartMaker, PartMaker Version 8, makes working with imported solid models more productive thane ever before. Machining Profiles can be automatically extracted from parts with a single mouse click, while verification of tool paths can now be seen directly on the solid model for all operations.
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