wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources bobcad news newspapers books scholar jstor free images august 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message bobcad cam industry computer aided manufacturing computer aided design founded 1985 headquarters clearwater florida u.s. area served worldwide products cad cam software website bobcad.com bobcad cam is a developer of cad cam software for the cnc metalworking and manufacturing industry . based in clearwater fl bobcad cam has a staff of approximately 85 employees . since opening in 1985 they ve developed a reputation in the industry as having one of the most powerful and affordable cad cam software available . contents 1 history 2 cad cam modules 3 compatibility 4 awards 5 references history edit bobcad cam was created by bob twaalfhoven who graduate from mit in 1978 with an engineering degree . twaalfhoven created the software as a means of bringing cad cam technology to the personal computer . before then cad cam software wasn t generally accessible to the masses . 1 2 twaalfhoven originally sold his bobcad cam software from the trunk of his car . he sold to manufacturing shops that wanted to automate their programming process but couldn t afford the massive price tag that accompanied traditional cad cam software in the mid 80 s. twaalfhoven opened his first office in san jose california in order to service the local manufacturing market . in the early 90 s bobcad cam expanded to the east coast where the company s second office opened in clearwater florida . the software was continually developed throughout the 1990s adding 2.5 axis milling toolpath features 3 axis planar machine toolpath capabilities for solid models and cnc lathe programming capabilities . this proved to be a wise development move as machining stl models became more popular in the cad cam field . in early 2002 the most significant developments to the software were made by adding design surface & solid modeling technology releasing the first artistic cnc software add on as well as introducing the first ever training video products for customers to learn cad cam from the comfort of their office . the san jose location was closed due to expansion of the florida office ; one office was now capable of servicing the global markets easily . in 2007 with the organizational structure of bobcad cam in excellent shape twaalfhoven began primarily focusing on the development of his cad cam software and rebuilding the product from the ground up . this led to the release of the version 22 cad cam software the addition of lathe nesting & sheet optimizing and a joint venture with predator software to offer high level editing and simulation to his customers . between 2007 and 2014 bobcad cam software technology has taken the largest strides in its company history in the development and implementation of cnc machining technology . the company became a solidworks gold partner 3 with the release of the bobcam for solidworks cam add on for solidworks users to be able to program their parts right inside of their design product saving them time and increasing the workflow efficiency for solidworks customers . recently releasing cad cam software programming technology for 4 and full 5 axis cnc milling hosting the first ever high speed adaptive roughing strategy for multi axis cnc milling ever . cad cam modules edit it should not be assumed that all features on any given model of machine are supported by bobcad . it is the users responsibility to determine prior to sale if particular features of a given machine will be used by bobcad and what additional effort may be required to do so . for example it is possible to draw a turned part with tapped holes situated perpendicular to the main axis however ; what is meant by supported is subject to interpretation . while it may be possible to make some machine functions operable with some effort such as live tooling on a lathe the degree of difficulty varies and technically live tooling support for lathe is not provided . industrial robots can be used for non conventional milling for example . 4 bobcad cam software is modular . meaning that a cnc business can implement a core 2 & 3 axis milling software and add on to it as the business grows and needs higher levels of machining tool path capabilities . the 3 axis cnc software has a standard and professional version . there are also standard and pro versions for 4 axis cnc milling as well as the 5 axis cnc milling cad cam . the 2013 multi axis cad cam software offers the first high speed adaptive roughing tool path strategy in the world for simultaneous 5 axis cnc milling . swarf milling along with 7 surface based cutting toolpath machining strategies have also been developed into the multi axis cad cam software . the latest release of the cad cam modules uses cam wizards for each machining strategy which is a planned series of dialog pages that pertain directly to the machining strategy that the user selects . recently dynamic machining strategies were added . dms functionality requires the user to use a single or multiple machining operations for a cad feature that was selected in the process . this basically allows multiple machining operations to be used based on a selected cad feature . cnc software modules are available for mill lathe wire edm art raster to vector nesting machine simulation and predator cnc edit bobcad cam also offers 2 other unique products for the design & cnc machining world . the dxf clipart series with over 6000 individual dxf files and the machinist toolbox software calculator . compatibility edit bobcad cam cnc software is compatible with the following file formats . dwg autocad . sldprt solidworks .3 dm rhinocad . x t and . x b parasolid . dxf . iges . step . stl . sat . cad the software also has a fully integrated cam plug in for solidworks . this has been the most anticipated release in the companies 26 year history . awards edit modern applications news 2008 reader s choice awards cad cam third place 5 references edit http www.cadazz.com cad software history.htm http design.osu.edu carlson history lesson10.html http www.solidworks.com sw products search results.htm http polishcimac.pl papers3 2011 018.pdf http www.modernapplicationsnews.com features 2008 september 0908 readers choice.pdf modern applications news retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bobcad & oldid 737449294 categories computer aided manufacturing softwarecomputer aided design softwarehidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from august 2009all articles with topics of unclear notability 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 2 september 2016 at 21 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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