Why BobCAD-CAM for CAD Design?
Access to design capabilities for both simple or complicated parts can sometimes lead to a long road of learning at expensive costs. What sets BobCAD-CAM aside of other leading CAD products is that our software provides the largest body of powerful drawing and modeling tools in CAD for the cost, making the software available for anyone with a need to innovate. Our easy to understand interface makes navigating through design features easy is also fully customizable giving you the ability to create toolbars with your frequently used CAD tools.
CAD Design Software Features
BobCAD-CAM’s modern drawing interfaces is fully customizable, make your own screen layout, tool bar locations and what features are on those tool bars. Customize the color of your background, selection, highlight, entity, toolpath, dim/text and Solids; Making drawing in the BobCAD-CAM environment your own.
Design features include:
- CAD Design Tree
- 2D / 3D wireframes
- Dynamic Drawing
- Surface & Solid Creation Tools
- Solid Modeling
- Solids Boolean Operations & Surface Editing
- CAD Utilities, Translation, Mirroring, Stitching & Unstitching
- Nonuniform Scaling
- Project to Z Planes
- Cross Section Viewing
- Extrude Boss & Extrude Cut
- Gear, CAMs & Sprocket Design Wizards
- Bolt Hole & Grid Patterns
- Text / Font Features & Complete Part Dimensioning
- Geometry Cleanup & Optimize with Erase Double Entities
- CAD Data Translation & Interoperability
BobCAD-CAM also recognizes the fact that you may need to import external CAD geometry/files.
Our translators include:
- SolidWorks .sldprt
- AutoCAD .dwg
- RhinoCAD .3dm
- dxf, iges, step, stl, sat, parasolid X_T & X_B and others
Design your part files and models with ease using the BobCAD-CAM Standard CAD Module!
CAD Design Software System Requirements
Windows (Minimum)
- 1GB RAM
- 128 MB Graphics Adaptor*
- Intel® or AMD® Processors**
- 2GHz Processor
- Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7
Windows (Recommended)
- 6GB RAM or More on Windows 7 x64 Operating System
- 1GB Graphics Adaptor*
- Intel® or AMD® Processors**
- 2+GHz Processor (Multi-core)
- Windows 7 x64
*BobCAD-CAM’s stability is dependant on the graphics card ability to process information, integrated memory graphics cards may work but are not recommended. ATI® or NVIDIA® graphics cards with dedicated memory are recommended. The graphics card’s software driver must be updated to the current software drivers released by the graphics card manufacturer. **BobCAD-CAM is not supported on Apple Macintosh® -based machines. Some customers have shown success in running BobCAD-CAM in a Virtual Windows environment on Mac computers using Boot Camp. While the end user may choose to run Windows on a MAC®, this is not supported by BobCAD-CAM Inc.