Talk:List of CAM companies

This page is an alternative to the awkwardness that is List of CAD companies, which I find unuseable.

To me, the purpose of this page, and records of all these commercial products is to record history. The companies are perfectly able to tell the world about themselves when they're here. But when they're gone it's easy to forget what happened. Software of this kind has a shelf-life measured in decades. Often there are several different products on sale now that came from the same source years ago. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Goatchurch (talk • contribs)

In what way is List of CAD companies unuseable? And even if it is, surely the answer is to fix that article, and not to create an almost duplicate list? Mdwh 14:56, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Please don't consider it yet. Although to the users there's a huge overlap between CAD and CAM, their development is exceedingly different. If you like, this is tracking the specific toolpath generating module often found in CAD products, of which there are few in number. It needs a separate list and life history. Likewise, if there was a List of Solid Modelling Kernels, of which there are, maybe, five in the whole world.

On deeper thoughts, I think these lists are upside down. There is an untderlying history of CAM generating modules that are being bought and sold between these different companies. These modules should be listed at the top, and the company names who trade them made secondary. Anyone care to discuss? Goatchurch 12:25, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I can see that List of CAD companies is not the easiest list to edit but the intention was to provide more information than just a list of companies and their products. Not everyone reading will know that some CAD packages also have CAM modules or that a particular CAM software company also has some PDM software. I agree that keeping a history of packages is useful but that is not the only reason people come to this topic in Wiki, a summary of current state is also important. I actually think it is not easy to identify what company owns what software, imagine having to go round the web and digging into pages to get to the level of this collective list. The task should be to improve the existing list of companies making it easy to edit but providing full information. It is not possible to separate the CAx packages, they are all tools used by engineers and tend to overlap in some areas. Note also that there are categories to list CAM and CAD software packages (as apposed to companies). Also if people wish to have something specific to one of these areas it can go on that subject page. The Computer-aided manufacture page could defiantly do with some more professional informative input. --Freeformer 15:49, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

CAD and CAM are two completely different animals. Most CAD users dont even care about CAM and vice-versa. There are many CAM companies that do not have CAD components. I would prefer to keep them seperate. - Anonymous CAM dude,

I have very little knowledge of CAD software and that's why I am here. The list is helpful to me. Also, identifing CAD & CAM is helpful and knowing which company is also informative. Alphabetized is much better too, by the way. I am just researching in hopes to take some CAD courses and eventually design drawings for my company. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.28.88.74 (talk) 22:00, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Redirecting to List of CAx companies

List of CAx companies appears to be somewhat maintained, while this page clearly isn't. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 14:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)