OneCNC Development Progress

OneCNC is one of the world’s most successful CAD/CAM developers. State-of-the-art manufacturing software requires ingenuity dedication and expert machine and manufacturing knowledge. OneCNC has all of these credentials and actively uses them to develop the very successful range of products which it has done since 1983 and developing products for end users since 1989.

OneCNC has in many ways revolutionized the CAD/CAM industry with the pioneering of many features admired in the industry today. OneCNC's progressive business model and marketing approach we have been able to provide what the CAD/CAM industry has needed and asked for.

The industry in the past required users to pay for product support and development in advance by way of yearly maintenance charges. OneCNC listened to the CAD/CAM users and soon realized that they felt they were being "ripped off" with these charges. In some cases advance charges of 16% or even 25% of the listed price has be paid yearly in advance to stay current.

At OneCNC we really do like to help our users and many users would tell you that feedback has provided the catalyst for many improvements in functionality.

This is a condensed history of OneCNC over the past 25 years.

Our development has been consistent from the beginning.

1983 Developed in-house CAM for 2.5D machining
1983 Manufacturing with CNC lathes commenced using CAM
1983 Manufacturing commenced with CNC machining centres using developed CAM
1984 Manufacturing in-house commenced with automated CNC cells using CAM
1984 Developed in-house limited 3D machining
1984 Manufacturing commenced using 3D CAM
1985 Developed 3D CAM further to handle surface mesh machining
1985 Manufacturing commenced in-house machining 3D patterns and dies
1985 Developed in-house CAM to run with AutoCAD using lisp interaction.
1986 Developed in-house 3D CAM to control robots to automatic load CNC parts
1987 Developed 3D CAM to control CNC manufacture of pallet pool line
1987 Developed in-house CAM to automatically change CNC lathe jaws in automated pool-ine
1987 Developed in-house CAM to handle pallet pool line with different parts on each pallet
1988 Developed in-house CAM to run with CadKey for 3D surface machining
1988 Manufacturing commenced machining 3D surface with CAM
1989 Decision to develop in-house CAD/CAM into a version for sale to end users
1990 Released CAD/CAM first generation version 2 to end users DOS 3D for 386
1991 Released CAD/CAM Version 3 for DOS Mill and Lathe
1992 Released CAD/CAM Version 4for DOS  Mill Lathe and Wire EDM
1992 Released CAD/CAM Version 5 for DOS Mill Lathe Wire EDM and Turret Punch
1992 Released CAD/CAM Version 6 for DOS Mill Lathe Wire EDM Turret Punch and Profiles
1992 Released CAD/CAM Version 7 for DOS with extended memory for all systems
1992 Released CAD/CAM version 8 to run in Windows 3.1 for all systems
1993 Released CAD/CAM version 9 with Mill 3D surface machining
1994 Released CAD/CAM version 10 for Win 32s for all systems
1994 Developed CAD/CAM Profiler for Win 32s for all systems
1994 Released CAD/CAM Profiler for Win 32s for all systems
1995 Released CAD/CAM version 11 For Windows 95 32 bit application for all systems
1996 Released CAD/CAM version 12for Windows 95 for all systems
1997 Released CAD/CAM version 14 for all systems
1998 Developed CAD/CAM 98 for Windows 98 first totally Windows Application
1998 Released CAD/CAM 98 for Windows 98 first totally Windows Application
1998 Decision to make OneCNC a totally hybrid modeling system
1999 Commenced development new OneCNC2000 solids based CAD/CAM product
2000 Developed OneCNC2000 OpenGL ability in conjunction with solids
2000 Developed OneCNC OpenGL Simulation in conjunction with solids
2000 Developed Surface Solids hybrid modeling for OneCNC
2000 Developed OneCNC with direct solids machining
2000 Released OneCNC2000 CAD/CAM for Windows 2000 and NT
2000 OneCNC USA opened early 2001 First direct sales in USA
2001 Released OneCNC2000 for Windows ME
2001 OneCNC Germany office opened early 2001
2002 Released OneCNC2000 for Windows XP
2003 OneCNC UK office opened early 2003
2003 Released OneCNC2003 for Windows XP
2004 Developed Hole Feature recognition for OneCNCXP
2004 Released OneCNCXP product Live metal removal simulation
2004 Developed OpenGL graphic GUI for OneCNCXR
2004 Released OneCNCXR CAD/CAM working in full solid view
2004 Released OneCNCXR for Windows XP2
2005 OneCNC Denmark Opened
2005 Released OneCNCXR2 CAD/CAM
2005 Developed new 4axis and 5 axis for OneCNCXR2
2006 OneCNC Poland opened
2006 OneCNC Japan opened
2006 Released OneCNCXR2 with over 100 updates
2006 OneCNC Mexico opened
2006 Released OneCNCXR2 Wire EDM product
2007 OneCNC Benelux in Netherlands opened early 2007
2007 Developed OneCNCXR2 for Windows Vista compliance
2007 Released OneCNCXR2 fully compliant for Windows Vista
2007 Developed OneCNCXR3 with new NC manager and functionality to increase productivity
2007 Developed HS machining and rest machining for OneCNC XR3
2008 Released OneCNC-XR3 with many new efficiency boosting features
2008 Realeased HS machining with step reduction in the OneCNCXR3 milling products
2008 Developing OneCNCXR3 Mill Turn CAD/CAM software
2008 OneCNC Ireland opened
2009 Released new OneCNCXR3 Mill Turn products for express and professional
2009 Released OneCNCXR3 for Windows 7
2009 OneCNC France Opened
2009 OneCNC developed and released new metal removal simulation
2009 Developed and released new rest robot simulation
2009 OneCNC Blog Created
2009 OneCNC Korea Opened
2009 Development of 5 axis simultaneous machining
2009 Development of multi-part processing
2009 OneCNC Dubai Opened
2009 Development of new functionality for OneCNC thread milling
2010 Developed and released OneCNC-XR4 with many new manufacturing efficiency functions
2010 Developed new DWG and DXF file translators