CAD/CAM and Digital Manufacturing Videos

SolidCAM — the largest independent CAM vendor still on the market — is at a turning point. In this exclusive sit-down, MISTER CAM talks with Dr. Emil Somekh, SolidCAM’s founder & CEO, about what comes next and uncovers key insights, including: Has anyone tried to buy SolidCAM — and would Emil sell for $1 billion? What exactly is SolidShop, and how might it reshape CAM workflows? Could AI replace CNC programmers and traditional CAM systems? Why did SolidCAM choose to partner with TITANS OF CNC? No fluff, just a clear, fact-driven conversation that every CAD/CAM professional will want to watch.

In this debut episode, we spotlight the biggest updates from June to August 2025: Hexagon ESPRIT EDGE 2025 simplifying Swiss machining, Cimatron DieQuote transforming cost estimation, EDGECAM 2025.1 with smarter automation, Mastercam 2026 with AI Copilot, SolidCAM’s partnership with TITANS of CNC, CIMCO’s new sub-spindle simulation, Universal Robots’ free UR Studio, hyperMILL’s integration with MachiningCloud, and the global launch of ENCY 2.0 and the ENCY X ecosystem at EMO Hannover.

While we’re putting the final touches on the mistercam.com portal, I’ve got something cool for you — a quick look at some of the standout players from IMTEX 2025 in Bangalore this January. In this episode of “CAD/CAM On the Fly”: 4 rapid-fire questions, 3 CAD/CAM vendors, 2 CNC machine monitoring developers, and 1 startup using AI to instantly estimate part cost and machining time.

This year, I had the chance to visit India again — specifically, Bangalore, or Bengaluru where IMTEX 2025 took place. It’s been two months since I got back, but I enjoyed the exhibition so much that I’d love to return — and share a bit about it with you. To new and old friends in India — thank you for the warm welcome!

Just a few days ago, I returned from Lyon, where the Global Industrie 2025 industrial exhibition took place, and I’m excited to share with you the latest video from the "CAD/CAM on the Fly" series.

In this episode, you'll see an interview with Eric Gerval, CEO of the French company GO2cam International, the developer of the GO2cam software. You'll learn about the history of the GO2cam brand and how one of the industry leaders envisions the future of CAM.

Today’s episode features Hans-Joachim Schott, director of the German company SCHOTT SYSTEME and one of the two founders of the CAD/CAM system Pictures by PC, a software with a rather unusual name for this industry. Interestingly, Pictures by PC might be the only CAM system in the world that doesn’t charge users for updates.

AI is making its way into industrial manufacturing, unlocking massive potential for CNC machining. One of the first movers in this space was CloudNC, which introduced CAM Assist—a tool integrated with Autodesk Fusion 360 that automates toolpath generation, making it faster and easier to get machine-ready code.

IMTS was full of surprises, and one of the most unexpected for me was discovering Toolpath. To get a better understanding of what Toolpath is working on, I sat down with Justin Gray, CTO of the company. In this interview, you'll not only learn how Toolpath differs from CAM Assist by CloudNC but also see it in action.

In this episode, we’re diving into the story of DP TECHNOLOGY and the creation of one of the most well-known CAM systems in the industry — ESPRIT. I’ve had the privilege of knowing Paul Ricard and his co-founder Dan Frayssinet for over 14 years, both professionally and personally. But even with that long-standing connection, this conversation uncovered a ton of insights I had never heard before.