CAD INTEGRATION
CAM Software directly inside SOLIDWORKS®, Solid Edge®, and Autodesk Inventor®
Seamless CAD Integration
SolidCAM delivers true single-window integration within SOLIDWORKS®, Solid Edge®, and Autodesk Inventor®, enabling users to define, calculate, and verify all machining operations directly inside the familiar CAD assembly environment. This eliminates the need for repetitive and error-prone file imports or exports, ensuring a faster, more reliable workflow.
All 2D and 3D geometries used for machining are fully associative to the native CAD design models. Any modification to the SOLIDWORKS, Solid Edge, or Inventor models automatically updates the corresponding CAM operations, maintaining synchronization and eliminating rework.
Seamless CAD Experience
- Runs directly inside SOLIDWORKS®, Solid Edge®, and Autodesk Inventor® – no switching between systems.
- Operates in CAD assembly mode, displaying fixtures, tooling, and vices during simulation for a complete production picture.
- Optimized for modern interfaces with single-window integration and full support for 4K displays.
Full Associativity
- Toolpaths are linked to the CAD model – when the model changes, the machining operations update automatically.
- Guarantees design-to-manufacturing consistency and reduces manual adjustments.
Time & Efficiency Gains
- Eliminates import/export workflows, saving hours and preventing data translation errors.
- Minimizes learning curve – users work in the CAD interface they already know.
- Rapid onboarding with familiar look-and-feel across all three supported CAD systems.
Customers RAVE about SolidCAM's CAD Integration
If changes are made on the design side, we capture them on the manufacturing side because SOLIDWORKS and SolidCAM are fully associative.
- | Essai Corporation 
The tight integration with SOLIDWORKS makes my design-to-production life cycle easy and fast.
- | Kramer Designs Corporation 
The ease of making CAM Gcode right within our SOLIDWORKS 3D modeler is hard to beat.
- | fpvmanuals 
The tight integration and powerful functionality of the Inventor + InventorCAM solution improved our productivity and it explains why the Inventor+InventorCAM solution is getting a strong following.
- | GDK Technologies, Inc. 
Our InventorCAM Package has made smooth and easy integration between design and manufacturing, making it easy to get our parts produced. This saves our customers money.
- | Chugach Electric Association 
InventorCAM seemed like a natural extension of Inventor... InventorCAM was extremely easy to learn. I was actually generating code the first week, and this is on our five axis CNC machine.
- | Defiance Machine 