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There are a lot of powerful new features we’ve added to RoboDK. Here are 15 new updates that you might have missed.

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Gear Repair Collaboration with RoboDK

May 15, 2023December 4, 2024 - by RoboDK

In a recent collaborative effort with FORCE Technology and Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence using ESPRIT additive toolpath programming, an industrial robot was programmed using RoboDK’s simulation software. ESPRIT and RoboDK, a …

Art / CAD / CAM / RoboDK projects / Robot Machining

Proptogroup Uses RoboDK to Make Amazing Sculptures

April 12, 2021December 2, 2024 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

If a client came to you with a completely different type of project that pushed the limits of your capabilities, what would you do? And what if they had strict …

CAM / Plugin / Robot Machining

Speed Up CAM Programming with the FeatureCAM Plug-in

April 14, 2020December 2, 2024 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

CAM programming can take ages… You want to get good, working G-Code as quickly as possible. But usually, you spend hours fiddling with settings and repeating the same actions again …

CAD / CAM / News / Plugin / RoboDK projects / Robot Machining

Multi-Axis Robot Machining With the Fusion 360 Plugin

November 7, 2019January 20, 2020 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

What does a project using the Fusion 360 plugin look like in practice? Here’s how one university fabrication lab Protolab used multiple external axes.

Art / CAD / CAM / RoboDK projects / Robot Machining

What Links Hip-Hop and Robot Milling? Spotify’s RapCaviar!

October 17, 2019November 8, 2024 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

What links hip-hop music with robotic machining? The RapCaviar Pantheon project from Spotify and NeoSet Designs used RoboDK to make significant sculptures.

CAD / CAM / News / Plugin

Get Cloud Robot CAD with the Fusion 360 Plug-In

September 4, 2019November 12, 2024 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

Autodesk’s Fusion 360 looks set to be the future of computer-aided manufacturing. Our new RoboDK plug-in makes it easy to use this cloud-based CAD program with your robot.

CAD / CAM / News / Plugin / Robot Manufacturing

Level-Up Your Robot Manufacturing with the Inventor Plugin

July 9, 2019November 18, 2024 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

Our new plugin for Autodesk Inventor gives you access to one of the world’s top CAD/CAM packages, specially designed for manufacturing processes.

News / offline programming / Plugin / robot software

How to Streamline Your Workflow with the SolidWorks Plug-In

January 23, 2019September 19, 2025 - by Alex Owen-Hill - Leave a Comment

Ever wished that the link between your CAD package and RoboDK was more streamlined? With the new plugin, we’ve made your SolidWorks workflow even smoother.