Autodesk Inventor CAM: Accelerate your toolpath strategy

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What is Autodesk Inventor CAM?

Autodesk® Inventor® CAM software simplifies the machining workflow with CAD-embedded 2.5- to 5-axis milling, turning, and mill-turn capabilities.

Seamless workflow for rapidly turning designs into machined parts directly inside Inventor.

Advanced roughing strategy for efficiently removing a high volume of material while minimizing tool and machine wear.

Powerful post processor system for quickly generating CNC code.

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Inventor CAM overview (video: 1:41 min.)

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Inventor CAM overview (video: 1:41 min.)

Try adaptive clearing for faster roughing and less tool wear

Get high accuracy with holder and shaft collision detection

Use all of your live tooling to get parts done faster

Include multi-axis support to make your most complex parts

Add full 5-axis support for getting shorter tools into tight places

Try adaptive clearing for faster roughing and less tool wear

Get high accuracy with holder and shaft collision detection

Use all of your live tooling to get parts done faster

Include multi-axis support to make your most complex parts

Add full 5-axis support for getting shorter tools into tight places

Why use Inventor CAM?

Reduce mill time

Include Adaptive Clearing as a roughing strategy for efficiently clearing large quantities of material.

Increase tool life

Maintain maximum load throughout the machining cycle, so you can cut deep without risk of breakage.

Maintain associativity

Toolpaths update automatically as changes are made to the 3D model in Inventor.

What you can do with Autodesk Inventor CAM

4- and 5-axis milling

Simultaneous 4- and 5-axis features for machining complex models include tilt, multi-axis contour, and swarf. (video: 1:56 min.)

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Turning and mill-turn

Improve productivity with traditional turning, facing, grooving, and boring functions. Includes support for live tooling mill-turning. (video: 2:15 min.)

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Inventor CAM “reduced some of our machining times on an order of 20 to 30 hours.”

– Tim Evans, CNC Shop Manager, Kalitta Motorsports

Watch video (2:58 min.)
“We met with the surgeon on a web-based meeting at 6:30 a.m. … and by 5 we had shipped him an actual product.”

– Aaron Noble, CEO, Poriferous

Watch video (3:43 min.)
“Inventor is helpful. It’s tied in with everything. When you update the model, it updates the CAM.”

—Scott Finnis, CNC Shop Manager, Kalitta Motorsports

Watch story (video: 2:38 min.)
“The adaptive [tooling method] has decreased the cycle time … and tool life, it doubles it, if not triples it.”

– Bob Paffumi, Owner, R Mac Shop

Watch video (2:55 min.)
Inventor CAM “reduced some of our machining times on an order of 20 to 30 hours.”

– Tim Evans, CNC Shop Manager, Kalitta Motorsports

Watch video (2:58 min.)
“We met with the surgeon on a web-based meeting at 6:30 a.m. … and by 5 we had shipped him an actual product.”

– Aaron Noble, CEO, Poriferous

Watch video (3:43 min.)
“Inventor is helpful. It’s tied in with everything. When you update the model, it updates the CAM.”

—Scott Finnis, CNC Shop Manager, Kalitta Motorsports

Watch story (video: 2:38 min.)
“The adaptive [tooling method] has decreased the cycle time … and tool life, it doubles it, if not triples it.”

– Bob Paffumi, Owner, R Mac Shop

Watch video (2:55 min.)

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

What is Autodesk Inventor CAM used for?

Autodesk Inventor CAM is an integrated tool for creating 2.5- to 5-axis mill and mill-turn toolpath strategies.

Who uses Autodesk Inventor CAM?

Which versions of Inventor CAM can I use if I subscribe to the correct version?

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Can I install Inventor CAM on multiple computers?

How do I convert my Inventor CAM free trial to a paid subscription?

How much does an Inventor CAM subscription cost?

Inventor CAM is available through the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection. The price of the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection subscription is $395 monthly, $3,150 annually, or $9,450 for three years. Please visit the collection overview page to learn more about the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection. If some of your users only occasionally use Inventor CAM, consider buying tokens to access it for 24 hours at a time. Visit the Autodesk Flex page to learn more.

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