Autodesk® HSMWorks™ 2023
Release Notes
Build 17.0.0.44039 / 13 April 2022 Autodesk, Inc.
CONTENTS
This document covers the following HSMWorks products:
- HSMWorks Premium
- HSMWorks Ultimate
- HSMWorks Fusion Entitlement
What’s New
System Requirements
Installation
WHAT’S NEW
The following changes have been made in the current update (2023):
Changes for Milling
- Improved the stability of the Slot strategy so that it recognizes more slots and produces valid toolpaths. (#30388)
- Fixed an issue in which the Slot strategy could produce an incorrect toolpath when the input contour was open and had an arc at the end. (#14085)
- Improved the alignment of starting positions on closed cutting passes in Blend. (#31074)
- Fixed incorrect leads in Contour2D when "In Control" compensation was enabled and "Horizontal Lead Arcs" was disabled. (#34288)
- Fixed an issue in which Contour2D toolpaths would fail to generate when using multiple depths and the top and bottom heights were equal. (#33845)
- Fixed a crash that could occur in some circumstances when using Contour2D. (#31405)
- Fixed a performance problem that could occur in Contour2D and Pocket2D when using many stepovers. (#33792)
- Fixed an issue in which a spiral toolpath in Pocket2D could generate a gouge in some circumstances. (#33460)
- Fixed an issue in which Pocket2D sometimes was cutting through islands that should have been avoided. (#27482)
- Fixed an issue in which Pocket2D sometimes ignored open input contours if they did not contain arcs. (#22142)
- Fixed an issue with Pocket3D in which a gouge could occur in some cases when the toolpath incorrectly duplicated passes. (#32554)
- Fixed an issue in which a spiral toolpath in Pocket3D sometimes resulted in a kernel crash and no toolpath. (#27364)
Changes for Turning
- Fixed an issue with certain turning groove toolpaths that were not being generated when the Z stock limits coincided with the groove limits. (#34296)
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- Autodesk HSMWorks 2023 supports Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 11 64-bit.
- HSMWorks 2023 is compatible with the 2020, 2021, and 2022 versions of SOLIDWORKS.
INSTALLATION
- SOLIDWORKS must be installed prior to installing HSMWorks
- Before you install HSMWorks 2023, please make sure to run Windows Update, install all Windows Updates that are pending on your machine, and reboot:
- For Windows 10: Windows Update is available in the Update and Security section of Windows Settings, which is available from the Windows menu.
- It is sometimes necessary to perform a Windows Update multiple times to completely update your operating system.
- Verify that enough disk space is available on your machine to install HSMWorks 2023 (approx. 2 GB).
- Before installing HSMWorks 2023, please uninstall all prior Autodesk beta products.
- Download HSMWorks 2023 from the Autodesk Account Portal or from your Autodesk Desktop Application.
- Follow the instructions to download and launch the installer. Temporary extraction is to your temp folder. Operating system errors regarding very long path names can occur if the temporary location is nested too many levels deep.
- If the installer does not launch, browse to the folder where the files were extracted, and double-click setup.exe.
Updating an existing installation
- When a new update is available, an update notification will appear in the Autodesk Desktop App.
- Please download and install the update package.
- We recommend that you uninstall HSMWorks 2022 before installing HSMWorks 2023. You can uninstall the relevant release using the Autodesk Uninstall Tool or using "Add or remove programs" in Windows Settings. If you choose not to do that, you may need to be aware that:
- HSMWorks 2023 will now be registered with SolidWorks instead of HSMWorks 2022.
- If you uninstall HSMWorks 2022 at a later time, you may lose the registration of HSMWorks 2023 with SolidWorks. The registration between the two products can be restored using the following command, which requires admin privileges to run: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\HSMWorks 2023\hsmsw.dll"
- Before installing any updates after the annual release (e.g. HSMWorks 2023.x) there is no need to uninstall the previous HSMWorks release.
FEEDBACK
We encourage you to provide your feedback to us and help make HSMWorks even better. If you encounter issues not covered in this document, please report them to Autodesk through your reseller, on the CAM discussion forum, or to the HSMWorks team using 'Send Feedback' on the 'Help' menu.
The Autodesk CAM Team
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