Side note: people have wondered why we have the HSMXpress, HSMWorks Professional, and HSMWorks Premium naming convention for our SolidWorks-based products, but switch to Inventor HSM Express, Inventor HSM, and Inventor HSM PRO naming convention for the Inventor-based products. 2D, 3D, 3+2, 5-axis, and 2D Turning in HSMWorks Premium and Inventor HSM PRO. This is consistent with how we offer HSMWorks 2D, 3D, 3+2, and 2D Turning for HSMWorks Professional and Inventor HSM. Turning will be included in Inventor HSM and Inventor HSM PRO with no additional charge or cost. The end result will be the same great turning tools in all three Autodesk CAM solutions. Once we are comfortable that we have taken the correct tact, we'll work quickly to get turning into Fusion and updated in HSMWorks.

So, based on feedback from customers we decided to take a step back and take a different approach to improve the usability and flexibility of our turning tools. While this approach works fantastic for many milling operations, it has caused some confusion and/or is not quite appropriate for how you turn parts. This approach assumes you want to machine everything but the features or areas you expressly identify (select) to not machine.

Our initial approach with turning in HSMWorks relied heavily on the approach we take with our 3D milling strategies. However, based on customer feedback our team has chosen to rework our turning technology. The existing tutorials for turning in HSMWorks will be helpful. Our plan is to release turning support with the release of Inventor HSM 2016 and Inventor HSM PRO 2016 in April coinciding with the launch of Inventor 2016 the same month. Turning is not currently supported in Inventor HSM.

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