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Hello machinists. I'm doing some calculations on material removal rate (MRR). I have zero experience with CAM software, so I wrote a script in Solidworks that simulates an endmill's movement through a workpiece at a small time interval. That way I could calculate the material loss for each time step. This is obviously not a neat way of approaching this problem. Are you guys aware of any CAM software that is capable of calculating MRR? Thanks!