A Story of transition from 2D to 3D with HSMworks

Posted by Gavin Bath | Feb 26, 2014 | Autodesk, Autodesk HSM, CAM, New Post | 0

Recently, I was asked by Autodesk to get in touch with a chap called Luke, on behalf of the reseller I work for. We were to organise a license of the full 3D HSMWorks for Luke to give him some more horsepower for some much more complex milling. I was told that he had been using HSMXpress, Autodesk’s free 2.5D Integrated CAM solution for Solidworks. I googled his name and quickly discovered the exciting world of CRUDDCNC. Luke has a youtube channel by that name and produces some awesome videos of the very interesting things he gets up to. When not building/converting his own CNC machines in his garage, he flies all manner of Radio Control helicopters and multicopters, and produces some incredible aerial footage. More recently, he has set up an aerial filming company called XM2.

Last week, we processed the license for Luke and notified him that it was ready for him. Within a few days, he posted this video up on his YouTube channel, showing his first 3D toolpaths being machined. This guy doesn’t muck around.

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Gavin Bath

Hello, I’m Gavin, a Technical Consultant for an Autodesk VAR in Christchurch, New Zealand. I emigrated here from South Africa when I was 11 years old, eventually marrying a girl from the deep south (of New Zealand.) We have 2 child-substitutes in the form of Sphynx cats, but hope to add some human members to the family at some point too. Outside of work I am a man of numerous varied passions and interests. A few that stand out would be: touring around our beautiful country on my motorbike with my wife, hacking my espresso machine to make a better cup, performing CNC conversions on machine tools, and building UAVs. Some of these personal projects might filter through to my blog posts as most of my hobbies involve design/digital prototyping of some sort. I’m an Autodesk Inventor 2013 Certified Professional and focus on both Inventor and Vault. My role is a split between technical support/consulting and software development, usually in the form of customisation for Autodesk Products. Before becoming a Technical Consultant, I spent about 10 years using Inventor and Vault as a mechanical designer. I have worked in a variety of industries including Aerospace, Defense, Consumer Products, and materials handling equipment for everything from logging/mining to food. In these areas I’ve designed machinery, equipment and products involving a huge variety of materials and manufacturing processes. I place utmost emphasis on manufacturability in the design work I do, as a result of having always worked very closely with the manufacturing environment. This has taught me to adapt and calibrate my digital-prototyping tools to give real-world results. Working for a reseller, I now get even more exposure to interesting companies in a huge range of additional fields. This gives me a great insight into the real needs and frustrations that designers and engineers face every day. I’ll draw from this experience to try to provide you with interesting and valuable information. Of course my views expressed on Design & Motion are my own & don’t necessarily represent those of my employer.

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