type subsidiary of geometric limited since 2005 industry cam software founded 1981 headquarters scottsdale arizona usa key people sameer kondejkar president products camworks website www.camworks.com geometric technologies inc. a subsidiary of geometric limited and known until october 2007 as teksoft inc. 1 supplies camworks a computer aided manufacturing cam software product . currently it sources its high speed machining strategies from an unnamed third party that devotes 10 15 programmers to developing just this module . 2 the company s first product was procad cam introduced in 1984 1 which was largely discontinued by 2006 due to the difficulty in managing 20 plus year old dos based code . 3 camworks is a fully integrated computer aided manufacturing cam solution designed to operate within solidworks . it uses its knowledge base called techdbtm and automatic feature recognition afr tools to help in the machining processes . 4 automatic feature recognition an interesting feature in camworks is the afr technology which analysis the solid model geometry and identifies mill features such as holes slots pockets and bosses ; turning features such as outside and inside profiles faces grooves and cutoffs and wire edm features such as die openings . this recognition feature helps in reducing the time spent by the designer to feed in data related to his machining . the features that can not be found automatically or that need to be defined for your specific machining requirements can be defined effortlessly using the interactive feature recognition ifr wizard . knowledge base is a self populating data base which contains all the information about the cutting tools and the parameters used by the operator . it also maintains information regarding the cutting tools available in the shop floor . this data base within camworks can be customized easily to suit the user and the shop floor s requirements . the database can be utilized for all the manufacturing processes viz . milling turning mill turn and wire edm . this data base helps in storing the best practices at a centralized location in the tool room . thus eliminates the non uniformity in the nc codes between two users . the machining modules included in camworks are 2 axis mill includes automatic roughing finishing thread milling face milling and single point drilling boring reaming tapping cycles to machine prismatic features 3 axis mill includes 2.5 axis capabilities plus routines to machine complex contoured surfaces routinely encountered in mold making and aerospace applications . 2 and 4 axis turning includes automatic roughing finishing grooving threading cutoff and single point drilling boring reaming and tapping cycles mill turn with 5 axis simultaneous machining support includes milling and turning capabilities for multitasking machine centers . supports c y and b axis machining at compound angles and 5 axis simultaneous machining . multiaxis machining 4 axis and 5 axis machining includes high performance automotive port finishing impellers turbine blades cutting tools 5 axis trimming and undercut machining in mold and die making wire edm 2.5 axis and 4 axis cutting operations automate the creation of rough skim and tab cuts camworks is being used by manufacturers across aerospace automotive electronics and medical industries . camworksxpress the lighter version of camworks is an easy to use 2.5 d cam package that runs seamlessly inside solidworks and provides the high powered features required for machining parts efficiently . references edit a b about geometric technologies . james r. koelsch september 2007 . medical manufacturers make money by marshalling the resources in their software . society of manufacturing engineers . knowledge based machining helps cam users . society of manufacturing engineers . january 2007 . sherry l. baranek 2009 . cam software aids in quick turnaround tooling . moldmaking technology . external links edit camworks official website camworks solidworks cad cam integration retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title geometric technologies inc. & oldid 687967410 categories companies based in scottsdale arizonacomputer aided manufacturing software navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 28 october 2015 at 19 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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