(CloudNC: London) -- CAM Assist, from CloudNC, automatically generates professional machining strategies in seconds at the click of a button, accelerating CAM programming time by up to 80% and saving hundreds of production hours.

Precision manufacturers using CAM Assist can become much more productive, reducing lead times and better coping with the widening manufacturing skills gap. CAM Assist is publicly available to download today via the Autodesk App Store.

CloudNC—a manufacturing technology company backed by Autodesk and Lockheed Martin—has announced its CAM Assist solution is available as a plug-in for Autodesk’s Fusion 360 software platform, enabling U.S. manufacturers to precisely machine components much more quickly and efficiently.

CAM Assist uses advanced computer science techniques to generate professional machining strategies for 3-axis parts in seconds, something that could take CNC machine programmers hours or even days to create manually. As a result, the time it takes to program a CNC machine to make a component—a bottleneck in many factories—is reduced by up to 80% compared to the previous manual programming process, saving manufacturers hundreds of production hours a year.

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