CamBam is an application to create CAM files (gcode) from CAD source files or its own internal geometry editor. CamBam has many users worldwide, from CNC hobbyists to professional machinists and engineers.

Although in Beta development stage, CamBam currently supports the following:

• Reading from and writing to 2D DXF files.
• 2.5D profiling machine operations with auto-tab support
• 2.5D pocketing operations with auto island detection
• Drilling (Normal,Peck,Spiral Milling and Custom Scripts)
• Engraving
• True Type Font (TTF) text manipulation and outline (glyph) extraction.
• Conversion of bitmaps to heightmaps
• 3D geometry import from STL, 3DS and RAW files
• 3D surfacing operations
• Extendable through user written plugins and scripts

CamBam is supplied as a completely free and fully functional version and CamBam Plus which is a commercial version with extra features and functionality.

Released 28 Oct 2008 build 3223.41780 Rev B (boombastic beaver)

Download CamBamPlus-beta0.9.4B MSI Installer (4.8 MB)

There has been a lot of work on toolpath generation in this release. This should allow much smoother and more efficient toolpaths as well as allowing machining of shapes that were not possible before.

Some highlights of this release...

• Toolpath collision detection (unioning)
• New union drawing routine
• Improved lead-in toolpaths
• Offline help files
• Involute gear plugin
• Various user interface improvements