Inventor CAM

Autodesk Inventor CAM: Accelerate your toolpath strategy

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Autodesk Inventor CAM simulation of a milling tool machining a contoured slot between two metal brackets.

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.

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.

Autodesk Inventor CAM simulation of a milling tool machining a contoured slot between two metal brackets.
Autodesk Inventor CAM interface showing a 5-axis milling simulation cutting a complex curved metal component.

4- and 5-axis milling

Simultaneous 4- and 5-axis features for machining complex models include tilt, multi-axis contour, and swarf.
Mill-turn simulation of a stepped cylindrical metal part with toolpaths displayed during a turning operation.

Turning and mill-turn

Improve productivity with traditional turning, facing, grooving, and boring functions. Includes support for live tooling mill-turning.
Autodesk Inventor CAM interface showing a 5-axis milling simulation cutting a complex curved metal component.

4- and 5-axis milling

Simultaneous 4- and 5-axis features for machining complex models include tilt, multi-axis contour, and swarf.

Turning and mill-turn

Improve productivity with traditional turning, facing, grooving, and boring functions. Includes support for live tooling mill-turning.
Mill-turn simulation of a stepped cylindrical metal part with toolpaths displayed during a turning operation.

"Inventor is helpful. Its tied in with everything. When you update the model, it updates the CAM."

— Scott Finnis, CNC Shop Manager, Kalitta Motorsports

"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

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

— Tim Evans, CNC Shop Manager, Kalitta Motorsports

"We met with the surgeon on a web-based meeting at 6:30 AM and by 5 we had shipped him an actual product."

— Aaron Noble, CEO, Poriferous
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Questions? We have answers.

Autodesk Inventor CAM is an integrated tool for creating 2.5- to 5-axis mill and mill-turn toolpath strategies. It also provides tools for waterjet, plasma, and laser cutting.

Autodesk Inventor CAM is used by designers and engineers to create toolpath strategies without leaving the familiar Inventor interface.

Your Autodesk Inventor CAM subscription gives you access to install and use the three previous versions. Available downloads are listed in your Autodesk Account after subscribing. See also previous releases available for subscribers.

Autodesk Inventor CAM runs on Microsoft® Windows®. See Inventor CAM system requirements for details.

With a subscription to Autodesk Inventor CAM software, you can install it on up to three computers or other devices. However, only the named user can sign in and use that software on a single computer at any given time. Please refer to the Software License Agreement for more information.

Launch your trial software and click Subscribe Now on the trial screen. Note that Inventor CAM is exclusively available through the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, so that is the price and product name you will see. When buying your subscription, enter the same email address and password combination you used to sign in to your trial. Learn more about converting a trial to a paid subscription.

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