What's New in CAM 2026: SOLIDWORKS, CAMWorks, & More
2026 is a big year for CAM. We’re seeing not just enhancements to our existing partners, SOLIDWORKS, CAMWorks, and DELMIA, but a recent partner we brought into the fold: SWOOD. Let’s take a look at what's new.
SOLIDWORKS CAM 2026
SOLIDWORKS CAM 2026 brings fantastic enhancements to our turning environment in SOLIDWORKS CAM Professional.
Bar Break Moves
Burrs are naturally created while machining, and can often impact downstream applications. SOLIDWORKS CAM Professional 2026 brings Bar Break moves to our turning environment. These moves add small chamfers or radii to our turned parts in order to remove burrs.
Burrs can harm guide bushings, fixturing, machinists, and can complicate setups downstream. Just like any of our SOLIDWORKS CAM and CAMWorks operation customizations, we can save these to our TechDB for automatic reuse in other jobs.
Collet Housing Parameters
When using a collet to hold our stock for turning, we have new parameters to more accurately visualize our workholding. We can now include parameters for our collet housing diameter, length, minor diameter, and collar length.
CAMWorks 2026
CAMWorks 2026 brings many enhancements, but the feature highlight is easily the Swiss machining environment.
Swiss machining is rapidly increasing in popularity worldwide, and these unique machining centers are critical in industries from plumbing to aerospace and defense.
Innovative new features like the Segmentation Manager ensure that Swiss machines’ unique workholding technology is used to the maximum for the best possible material removal rates and surface finish quality.
CAMWorks 2025 brought machine-aware programming & simulation right into the SOLIDWORKS client. This means that even Swiss machines can be simulated within SOLIDWORKS with checks for machine collision and kinematics.
SWOOD
SWOOD is GoEngineer’s latest design and manufacturing partner. SWOOD brings a highly automated, fully parametric furniture design environment into SOLIDWORKS. Created with mass customization in mind, SWOOD simplifies creating joinery, utilizing standard hardware, and manufacturing furniture.
After the design work is done, SWOOD CAM brings your designs to life. SWOOD CAM automatically recognizes features for speedy programming with support for five-axis and multi-head routers. The CAM suite’s capabilities can be extended with nesting, shopfloor documentation, and even to ERP systems.
3DEXPERIENCE NC PROGRAMMING
The 3DEXPERIENCE NC Programming environment has undergone significant enhancements throughout 2025, with exciting new features expected in 2026.
Users can now set cutter prices in tool creation and modification dialogs, as well as maximum lifetime cut length. This provides greater visibility over machining costs and lets us change tools before they start making scrap.
In 2024, we started getting predictive suggestions for our machining behaviors; now we can have an AI-powered examination of our toolpaths to suggest alternative outcomes. No more checking how individual tweaks impact cycle time; once your manufacturing intent is programmed, we can get automated suggestions:
For workshops leveraging or investigating increasing automation with robots and cobots, the 3DEXPERIENCE NC programming environment includes new capabilities. Within manufacturing cells, we can now coordinate and synchronize multiple robots within our CAM environment to ensure smooth coordination and operation.
Turning apps now include zigzag roughing toolpaths! Instead of feeding in, leading out, rapiding out on the backstroke, and feeding back in, we can now continue feeding downwards and removing material on the backstroke. Removing any movements that are not cutting chips is critical to minimizing cycle times, and our new 3DEXPERIENCE enhancements bring us closer to maximum productivity.
Finally, a new role introduces a connector between our 3DEXPERIENCE NC programming solutions and Vericut. With a single click, we can now package out our NC code for use in G-Code machine simulation.
The Next Evolution of SOLIDWORKS
Our What's New event celebrates 30 years of design innovation. Discover what’s new in the 2026 release, packed with hundreds of user-driven enhancements, performance boosts, and cutting-edge AI-powered features designed to accelerate your product development. We’ll also share an exclusive look at the future roadmap, where SOLIDWORKS is headed and how it will continue to support your innovation for decades to come.
Conclusion
2026 is bringing a whole host of enhancements in manufacturing for all industries. From SOLIDWORKS, 3DEXPERIENCE, and our partners, digital manufacturing has never been more powerful.
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About Mike Britton
Mike Britton is a SOLIDWORKS Application Engineer based out of Ontario, Canada. In addition to his work with GoEngineer, Mike is a competitor on Discovery Channel's BattleBots and volunteers with his childhood summer camp & local makerspaces.
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