Autodesk® HSMWorks™ 2024
Release Notes
Build 18.0.0.44173 / 12 April 2023 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 (2024):
Changes for 2D Contour
- Fixed possible linking issues in Contour2D when input contours contain arcs with the same center. (#41769)
- Fixed a bug when "finishing feedrate" might not apply to last finishing path. (#41670)
- Fixed a case when Contour2D could fail to generate toolpath for narrow slots with ramp linking. (#41497)
Changes for Blend & Flow
- Fixed an issue in Flow operations where the toolpath might not be machined if the tilt angle was exceeded on a machine with limited axial motion. (#39642)
- Added damping for toolaxis limits in Blend and Flow with a non ball tool. When the toolaxis hits the limit, it will decelerate to a stop rather than stopping suddenly. (#40955)
- Fixed a possible holder gouge in Blend and Flow strategies with enabled "Trim" option in holder protection. (#42254)
- Fixed a failed toolpath calculation in Blend which occured in some instances where machining boundaries were used. (#41413)
- Fixed possible small gouges in Blend, Flow and Multi-axis contour. (#40975)
- Added Blend toolpath joining in more cases if the endpoints are aligned. This gives fewer and more uniform linking paths. (#39983)
- Fixed a bug which could result in an empty or incomplete toolpath for Flow. Fixed an issue related to duplicated paths in Flow. (#41394)
- Fixed a case where Flow (Preview) could fail to calculate a toolpath with an unexpected error. (#40710)
- Fixed trimmed toopath in undercut areas in Flow with enabled collison avoidance. (#40419)
- Made improvements so that operations like Flow produces less gouging toolpaths. (#40388)
- Fixed possible crashes in Blend (#40630, #40507)
Changes for Milling (Other Strategies)
- Fixed an issue in which 2D Pocket could gouge the part when using Smooth Profile Ramp in some cases with very small arcs. (#42294)
- Fixed an issue in which the wrong stock to leave was computed against "avoid surfaces". (#40513)
- Fixed a possible issue with sub-sampling in Engrave so the toolpath will stay more than tolerance away from selected input curves. (#41035)
- Fixed a possible crash in Spiral with enabled morph option when zero area boundaries are selected. (#36484)
- Improved the performance for Pocket3D. (#38796)
- Fixed a case where an operation with the combination of selected machining boundaries and adding fillets could fail to generate a toolpath. (#40731)
- Fixed an issue by preventing ConstScallop from going below Zlow when offsetFromAreas is being used. (#32387)
- Fixed a possible crash in Spiral with enabled morph option when zero area boundaries are selected. (#36484)
- Fixed possible crashes in Swarf (#37618, #35718), Trace (#38297), Scallop (#40956), and Wrap. (#41141)
Changes for Turning
- Fixed an issue with certain turning grooving operations where the tool was not going down to the depth set by the inner radius. (#41284)
Changes for Tools
- Fixed an issue in which changing the cutting feedrate for a tool generated an error. (#42341)
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- Autodesk HSMWorks 2024 supports Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 11 64-bit.
- HSMWorks 2024 is compatible with the 2021, 2022, and 2023 versions of SOLIDWORKS.
INSTALLATION
- SOLIDWORKS must be installed prior to installing HSMWorks
- Before you install HSMWorks 2024, 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 2024 (approx. 2 GB).
- Before installing HSMWorks 2024, please uninstall all prior Autodesk beta products.
- Download HSMWorks 2024 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 2023 before installing HSMWorks 2024. 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 2024 will now be registered with SolidWorks instead of HSMWorks 2023.
- If you uninstall HSMWorks 2023 at a later time, you may lose the registration of HSMWorks 2024 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 2024\hsmsw.dll"
- Before installing any updates after the annual release (e.g. HSMWorks 2024.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.
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