SmartCAMcnc has announced a new development release schedule for the SmartCAM suite of computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software. Effective immediately, SmartCAM will now have a single, major 4th-quarter release, with "service pack" maintenance releases scheduled as needed. Previously, SmartCAM had two major releases per year. According to the company, the new release schedule provides SmartCAMcnc's staff a longer, uninterrupted development cycle by eliminating the release activities related to testing, validating and delivering a second major release each year. The SmartCAM product family consists of applications for computer numerical control (CNC) milling, turning, fabrication and wire EDM.
The first version under the new release schedule is SmartCAM 2014, which is now available. Service pack maintenance releases of the SmartCAM product family will be issued as needed to address minor issues, but typically not adding new core components or features. The previous major version of SmartCAM was Version 19.5 released in November 2012, and the current release is SmartCAM V19.7 released in early May 2013.
"The new annual release schedule provides greater development efficiency, making it now possible to fit additional, significant projects into the development schedule," said Douglas Oliver, SmartCAMcnc's Senior Product Manager. "For the customer, more new features means greater value for their maintenance investment. An example of an important new feature made easier with the annual release schedule is the new transactional database 'Undo' system that will be found in the SmartCAM 2014 release. The addition of such capability makes us confident that our customers will find the annual release plan beneficial."
The SmartCAM family of CAM software is designed to provide toolpath modeling and CNC programming from prismatic production work to complex molds, dies and prototypes. SmartCAMcnc is designed to provide maintenance contracts, updates, upgrades and technical support for all SmartCAM users, regardless of version. All SmartCAM products include updated data translators and NC editing software from Predator Software, Inc.
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SmartCAMcnc
1144 Gateway Loop, Suite 220
Springfield, OR 97477-7750
541-344-4563
sales@smartcamcnc.com
www.smartcamcnc.com