# CAM350 Reviews **Vendor:** Downstream Technologies **Category:** [PCB Design Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/pcb-design) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 43 ## About CAM350 CAM350 is a comprehensive software solution designed to streamline the transition from PCB design to fabrication. It serves as the industry standard for verification, optimization, and output generation, ensuring that complex PCB designs are thoroughly inspected and validated before manufacturing. By identifying and addressing potential issues early, CAM350 helps prevent costly design re-spins and production delays, ultimately leading to faster and more efficient PCB fabrication. Key Features and Functionality: - Data Import and Export: Supports a wide range of file formats, including Gerber, ODB++, IPC-2581, and NC Drill & Mill files, facilitating seamless integration with various PCB design tools. - Design Rule Checking (DRC): Performs comprehensive checks for spacing violations, annular ring issues, and other design anomalies to ensure compliance with manufacturing standards. - Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Analysis: Identifies and rectifies potential fabrication problems such as acid traps, copper slivers, and solder mask slivers, enhancing manufacturability and yield. - 3D Visualization: Provides a virtual model of the PCB, allowing designers to inspect and validate manufacturing data in a three-dimensional environment, including inter-layer views. - CAM Editing Tools: Enables modifications to flashes, pads, polygons, lines, and text, as well as the addition of teardrops, to refine and optimize the design for fabrication. - Netlist Comparison and Export: Extracts and compares netlists to verify electrical integrity and exports them in formats like IPC-D-356. - Panelization: Facilitates the creation of fabrication panels, optimizing the arrangement of multiple PCBs to maximize manufacturing efficiency. Primary Value and Problem Solving: CAM350 addresses the critical need for thorough verification and optimization of PCB designs prior to fabrication. By providing tools for comprehensive DRC, DFM analysis, and 3D visualization, it ensures that potential manufacturing issues are identified and resolved early in the design process. This proactive approach minimizes the risk of production delays and costly rework, leading to higher-quality products and more efficient manufacturing workflows. Additionally, CAM350's robust editing and panelization capabilities streamline the preparation of manufacturing data, further enhancing productivity and reducing time-to-market for electronic products. ## CAM350 Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **accuracy** of CAM350, as it significantly enhances efficiency in identifying layout issues quickly. (1 reviews) - Users find CAM350 to be an **easy-to-use tool** , significantly speeding up their PCB layout processes. (1 reviews) - Users love the **efficiency** of CAM350, as it significantly reduces time spent on PCB layout tasks. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **advanced features** of CAM350 that simplify PCB Gerber verification and enhance manufacturing assurance. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **user-friendly interface** of CAM350, valuing its time-saving DRC runs and precise IPC checks. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy and simple verification features** of CAM350, enhancing their PCB manufacturing process. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy verification features** of CAM350, ensuring accurate PCB Gerber checks and reliable manufacturing processes. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find CAM350's **error messages frustrating** , impairing their workflow and complicating user experience. (1 reviews) - Users find CAM350 **expensive** relative to other tools, and experience occasional failures with the autosave feature. (1 reviews) - Users report **export issues** with CAM350, including delayed customer responses and glitches while importing files. (1 reviews) - Users experience **delayed customer responses** and occasional glitches when importing files, complicating their file management tasks. (1 reviews) - Users often report **poor customer support** , facing delays and issues with tool glitches during file imports. (1 reviews) ## CAM350 Reviews ### 1. Good tool to check Gerber for DFM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** nithish d. | senior pcb designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2025 **What do you like best about CAM350?** User friendly tool. DRC runs are very helpful which saves a lot of time. Short nets in IPC checks shows with exact locations which is helpful to clear the shorts in less time in the PCB layout. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Customer response is delayed. Few times due to the glitch in tool importing the files will be an issue. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** DRC checks are helpful Back drilling made easier with advanced features Paneling of 2 or more gerber is easier Fixing the acid traps and copper slivers within the gerber files are helpful because without editing the PCB design can be editied in gerber and saves fabrication time. ### 2. "Best tool for output to PCB fabrication" **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** pavan v. | Reporting manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2025 **What do you like best about CAM350?** CAM350 offers the best features to check & verify pcb Gerber's in a easy & simpler way. also advanced features in latest version comes with option backdrilling. manufacturing process can be guaranteed with proper check in CAM350. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Expensive compared to other cam tools & also sometimes autosave doesn't work . **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many new features benefiting users to check & validate their PCB in advanced level . ### 3. Easy as you imagine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karthik S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2023 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Its more user friendly than you thought and it has more features **What do you dislike about CAM350?** While doing IPC verification its not supporting pads software drill correctly **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before we proceeding into the DFM side we can able to find and clear all the problems ### 4. Best software for processing job and DFM. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikas p. | Cam engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2022 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Best for this software like easy to use and best for dfm report and process job. Also if required if any changes then best for this software and import and export data for all data. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Dislike is for this Cam350 is if data heavy copper or some data then loading time is too much high and sometime if data is heavy then some times Cam350 crashes. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Best in this some scripts looks good and easy, also sometimes scripts looks good worked but if you tried to make some scripting in this software then not support in help sections. ### 5. Cam 350 is a vaer nice tool for all of your cam work required for PCB Fab **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Udit A. | Team Leader-PCB Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about CAM350?** If you are looking for solutions to view, edit, make panel, do any change in existing Gerber files, want to check the part/pad details of any Gerber file, CAM 350 is a very helpful & decent tool. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** The GUI was not that good but the features are very impressive and advanced. You have multiple options to manage, view edit your Gerber data for any pcb fabrication. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** If you are a pcb designer or working in a pcb fabrication house, CAM 350 is a very nice and useful tool for all your design requirements. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Whdn it comes to making a panel for the pcb, editing the Gerber files or to view the Gerber data of any pcb, CAM 350 features a all in one solution for your requirements. ### 6. Best CAD tool to edit and verify Gerber files **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **What do you like best about CAM350?** In the cam tool, I can open any format of the Gerber file without any problem. It has two options auto import and manual import so for beginner auto-import is set all parameters by default and display Gerber data. the overlap layer is very useful to verify the Gerber files. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** For larger Gerber up to 16 layers, it can hang during export the pdf and we have to reopen all the data. the navigation tool is not much handy. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can open and edit the Gerber file, verifying the working Gerber with the original Gerber file for any error. ### 7. CAM350 Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francisco M. | Technical Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2021 **What do you like best about CAM350?** The cross-probe is what I like best, with a 2-monitor setup. You can see the same view on both CAM350 & the PCB CAD tool. As for the rest, the user interface is easy to use, to some degree, self-explanatory. The learning curve is very short and you can use the tool right away. Would be challenging if they're loading the older RS274D file. I use CAM350 for artwork review and in several instances, modifications **What do you dislike about CAM350?** I don't think I have anything to dislike. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** I have used other other tools, Camtastic and GCPreview. While all three are still easy to use, CAM350 had a few more which is I why I liked it. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use CAM350 to verify the gerber file vis-a-vis with the the same artwork with the PCB CAD, which the crossprobe tool is truly a time saver. ### 8. CAM350 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** M. A. | services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2021 **What do you like best about CAM350?** it is great software and easy to use also it is fixable and has many advantages, anybody working in the cad /cam filed knows exactly what I mean I was used different software to do my job but really it is the best software in this filed **What do you dislike about CAM350?** just only one thing we need to add tool allows us to save our libraries if the dev team add this feature this software will be the master **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** many I was using it to design the stencil for electronics board for many years and it is fast and easy ### 9. As Fresh engineer or New Start up group, CAM350 is very useful tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** VINOTH K. | Manager - EE R&D, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Netlist checking is very easy and also with mutliples layer . Viewing the Gerber generated by supplier . Able to perform layer to Layer comparison . Silk Screen Verification . importing ODB++ databases . Verification of complex printed circuit boards is very easy . Easy to use . Easy to learn . Inspecting defects in engraving, soldering, thermal and observing distances in orbit . Easy to to ensure that the Gerber layers are aligned or not. provides a complete set of tools for easy transfer of engineering data to printed circuit boards ability to review the scientific rules in the design to ensure that the Gerber layers are aligned with the CAD design rules **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Making a panel Gerber using the Mouse Bite concept is very tough but should need in CAM350 continuously received "Not responding" message if working big size files editing. Need to improve panelization methods and options in better way. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** Automated process for making Panel Gerber Automated process for DRC Checking Auto Mapping of the layers **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gerber related like Placement review, thermal and clearance Directly import design data for the actual display of what you designed Optimization and testing of devices performance Inspection, preparation and validation of printed circuit board designs prior to the production is very easy Determine and preserve the integrity and design goal ### 10. Great gerber generator and editor. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivan T. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Can do the step&repeat; increase, create and delete features on any layer; overlap layers for proper alignment; change type of exports for proper imports on specific gerber viewers/editors; can generate specific solder mask shapes; create PDFs, DXFs, and more. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Nothing. I have used it for 12+ years and it has always been very helpful. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** Nice package to own. Helps solve all needs related to gerber data, panelization, and import/export from/to different PCB Design packages, as well as mechanical packages like AutoCad. Can also generate PDFs, ODB++ and more. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most described above. In addition, can easily verify size and location of drill data as well as other layers, like copper, solder mask, and silk screen. Can edit drill table, notes, special board numbering after doing the panelization (another good tool of the package). Have also enlarged/downsized specific features in solder mask. Have overlapped, corrected size and aligned gerbers that open up -or come from different sources- with different line thickness, misaligned or with different size. ### 11. Helps me to do my job but not for hdi pcbs **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Cam 350 is easy to use, is user friendly and quick **What do you dislike about CAM350?** There are not steps for handling and difficult to find blin over burried vias **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Checking pcbs, Dfm checks ### 12. 4 + years experience in designer and DFM inspector **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mareeswaran v. | Printed Circuit Board Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** I personally used for DFM validation and GERBER file Editing. Very easy to load GERBER files in tool and have simple options to validate the GERBER files and the final result also satisfied. Also I am used for IPC Netlist comparison and validation. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** 1) Mill data not loaded properly. Every time I changed the units (metric 3,5 or above) and load it manually. 2) Need to improve panalization methods and options. 3) continuesly received "Not responding" message if working big size files editing. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** Easy to use Cool options Easy to learn **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1) Very easiy to run DRC and result also satisfied. 2) netlist comparison and validation result very satisfied compared to Genesis 2000 ### 13. Usage of streams automation checks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2021 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Well its very easy steps to involve in the set of constrains that can be loaded at a time, all the checks can be done with in a span of time. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Which required different license for 14.0 & 14.5 **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** Need 100% Quality output package i would recommend CAM is the final solution **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many things like solder bridge, AR, min gap of different , same net, IPC netlist checks and cross probing with corresponding tool. these are all the really benefits to the user. ### 14. Tools for PCB CAM Engineering **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arumugadurai C. | Project Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** 1. Cost effective tool for PCB CAM Engineering. 2. User friendly tool for design Engineer to do the DFM and panelization. 3. Easy learning software. 4. No need of networks to run the software. 5. Data conversion to the 2D formats. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** If possible please provide the easy options for run the clean up or edit operations scripts. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** In OEM organizations product development and R and D team work for multiple iterations for the same design and product. We will easily check the MRC and DRC feasibility by using the CAM 350 software. ### 15. It is very user friendly software. Easy to process data.Good performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SAURABH P. | CAD/CAM Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2021 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Editiind is so easy.We can process data in very less time. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Nothing to dislike.Over all I am very satisfied with this. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** No **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** PCB CAD/CAM DRCs and creating route and test program for PCBs. ### 16. Validation Tool -- Very useful before FAB the PCB. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** duvaraga n. | PCB Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2021 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Most power tool and user friendly and easy to learn **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Difficult for the penalization to make Gerber **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** yes will recommend **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** DFM issue solved ### 17. It is user friendly to review gerber file **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edzon M. | Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** it allows you to import different gerber file formats **What do you dislike about CAM350?** For some reason I encountered drill format need to manually change settings to make align on the patterns. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** recommendable software for PCB cad files **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problem on missing and some unreadable gerber files. When using CAM350 I was able to import the files and review it. ### 18. Best tool for PCB Fabrication **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjay P. | CPU Silicon Validation Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** I use this tool in my early career. CAM350 can easily load Gerber files process with top and bottom layers **What do you dislike about CAM350?** It is the license based tool. Not available for students. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** This software is very high price if you are going to purchase premium. If you have big scale business then you can purchase one can earn from it . **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAM350 can solve line spacing , design error, it has script features that can done our work easy. ### 19. Its too easy and reachable for everyone **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Easy to start up, fast to use, easy for bigenners and experts **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Importing dwg files is missed, i think if it available, the software would be great. And if it can be updated to has database so we canbuild libraries and import them once needed and edits table **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** Its a professional software to use **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its faster than any sofwatre and easy to use and i can draw and design from scratch using shortcut keys thats not available in other softwares ### 20. Good for gerber editing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2021 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Gerber editing , making panel ,exporting dxf **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Not taking the centre of pad ,while creating the drill table do not make the proper symbol for drills as in altium. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am editing the gerber ,making dxf file by it . ### 21. CAM350 is the best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** I lIke the classic layer view of CAM350, its so easy to navigate **What do you dislike about CAM350?** may be more drafting like function, similar to autocad to help in editing gerber files **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** I like the gerber compare of old and new layers of a certain rev up files, it gives you confidence about your files to be fab. I Like also how you can modify / edit your padstack and drill file for minor revision needed before fab. It is also easy to check for shorts after netlist extractions. ### 22. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Priyanshi B. | PCB Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** The layer importing and exporting all features are very useful. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** It's difficult to identify drill format when not known from drill file. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** If I get a chance I will surely recommend because it is very comfortable to use. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Components can be viewed layerwise so it's easy to identify any footprint issues related to paste and mask. By exporting Gerber's from CAM 350 it's easier for some software to load. ### 23. CAM 350 review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bilfred E. | PCB Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Checking Post processed data checking- Gerber validation **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Assigning layers after import. Setting and parameters **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** It is simple tool to verify the gerber files. I use this tool from several years back and it is stable, robust and user friendly with numerous options **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Foolproof ### 24. CAM 350 is cheap an usefful software for PCB industry. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Igor T. | Acting CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Upsides of using CAM 350 is his simplicity. You can check design really quickly, wich helps a lot, especialy if you are in sales department and when clients need your offers in short notion. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Only downside for CAM 350 is that he is not specilized for HDI designs. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working in sales department in PCB industry, CAM 350 was very beneficial for fast checking of the design from customer inquiry. You can defintly finish more inquirys using CAM 350, then with other softwares like Incam or Ucam. ### 25. Cam350 is a versatile version for all the cam checks and. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ranjan D. | Printed Circuit Board Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** About NC editor drill we can verify easily **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Nothing like that everything is fine and you can add negative plane to positive plane conversion in single click **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** Nothing at all **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Main with the Gerber verification it will helps us to solve the errors from manufacturers ### 26. PCB CAM Software **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Graphic Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** It’s very good to input the data for CAM engineer (Standard gerber, Gerber 274X, Gerber X2, ODB++ & etc.) If use script it’s very easy to work with standard simple Job’s. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Its little complex to edit the data for HDI, complex mask, copper, special technology job. Drill, copper, mask, & silk editing is little complex with other software (UCAM, Genesis 2000, & Incam) If data found any problem in net list, Its kill time to identify the netlist problem (broken or short) **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** overall Ok **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** script need to inbuilt ### 27. Best tool to review gerbers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2021 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Netlist verification Min Copper spacing Pcb comparison **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Not responding message if working big board size files **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inspecting DFM issues ### 28. PCB Layout Engineer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** It is easy to learn and use. I've been using CAM350 in my entire PCB Layout career. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** I never seen anything I dislike since it was my software since then. It's just so easy to use **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** it's a very easy tool. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** It just helps us to verify our gerber file so easily. ### 29. Review of CAM350 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Checking each Gerber with manual MINIMUM spacing details and double hit via IPC CHECK **What do you dislike about CAM350?** For big boards like ATE boards with 44 layers loading more time to check the result **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** I advise to use the CAM350for electronics design pcb boards for validation **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Shorting net open nets neck down of traces check and intentional shorting error ### 30. It is simple and user friendly tool. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jayaprakash J. | Lead Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** It is simple 2D tool to have complete overview of PCB. Shortcuts in this tool are very helpful while working on it. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** I feel all is good with this tool. No issues or concerns. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was creating fixtures for PCB using CAM350 ### 31. DFM Review using CAM350 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Easy user interface and best options for essential manufacturing verifications. Results are not lesser than any expensive tools used by manufacturers. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Gerber editing can be better. Can be more controlled on editing section **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** Best tool for PCB designers for Gerber viewing and DFM verification **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am Designer using Cam 350 for DFM reviews right after I generate manufacturing files. So when it goes to manufacturing will go to manufacturing line without delay or change request ### 32. For Gerber Data analysis and design rule check and for CAM work for pre production of PCB best. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Gerber Data Analysis. Its detect files automatically and load in tool is best. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Some basic gerber modification are possible but for multi-tasking and DRC solve some critical then other cam software. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** Pcb cam engineering services **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automatically define gerber layers and it's support scripting. So we can work easily with this tool. ### 33. I am using it for many years and I am very pleased by it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** the simplicity of the interface and stable work **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Not always is able to import gerber file generated from Altium. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** Pretty easier to use **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am involved in pre production process of the PCBs, from DRC checks to prepare the data for production. ### 34. Good software for Gerber review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** 1.Very easy to review the gerber files by layer wise and can easily find any kind of error before releasing to the manufacturer **What do you dislike about CAM350?** *Can improve settings and parameter *Guideline required **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** *It's one of the good software in the market to review the gerber files ### 35. My view on Cam350 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** A complete design and fabrication integration help to get products quickly. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** As a cam engineer, the features cam 350 offers little less than Frontline genesis. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** We perform starting from DRC to panelization. ### 36. Wonderfull CAM tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** DXF conversion to CAM fiml and NC drill data **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Nothing. I like all the options in CAM350 tool. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** Nothing. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gerber files review. DFM verification. Panel preparation. DRC checking. ### 37. This tool very useful for can checking. Review the gerber is very easy **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** This tool very use for panalaziation the board. DFM and assembly checks very useful **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Need more video in public. Some time it is too slow **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** For gerber release it is more useful tool other viewer ### 38. Excellent tool to perform DFM checks for PCB designers to ensure the quality of the layout **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** DFM Analysis and Panelization. User friendly to use. Can generate different kind of outputs **What do you dislike about CAM350?** To ensure the IPC netlist. Minimal usage of DFM **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basic DFM analysis with respect to guidelines. Netlist verification, Outputs generation, Panelization ### 39. User friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2020 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Panneling is easy as commands are user friendly. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** File size is very large................. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** Best tool for Gerber **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Whenever issue occurred, we get nice support from customer care. ### 40. Best gerber viewer and editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anshul G. | PCB Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2019 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Cam350 is best tool available in market for editing panelization of our gerber files..easy to use ......we can alter design easily using this tool. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** It must have net name property that will be more helpful **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Opening of Center hole of gerber files for manual drill purpose.. ### 41. Interface is friendly user **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander JR L. | IC Packaging Design Engineer III, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2019 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Gerber overlay of my pcb design, can use for checking **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Zoom in zoom out function of cam350, suggest to have mouse scroll function **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** Great tool for gerber checking of pcb artwork **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gerber file check for manufacturing ### 42. Great Gerber Checker Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ILLIA S. | Sr PCB Design Engineer / ECAD Hardware Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2019 **What do you like best about CAM350?** Easy to use, a lot of settings and options **What do you dislike about CAM350?** Hard to make panel for your pcbs. Not usser friendly panelization interface. **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Checking gerbers, small modifications, panelization ### 43. User friendly tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2019 **What do you like best about CAM350?** The tool was user friendly and avoids manufacturing issues during PCB fabrication. Detects thermal issues. **What do you dislike about CAM350?** GUI could be more easy to access. More free trails so that we can have hand on before we purchase. **Recommendations to others considering CAM350:** Advisable for beginners **What problems is CAM350 solving and how is that benefiting you?** We create PCBs for automotive infotainment. ## CAM350 Discussions - [Panel Gerber in different Concept like Mouse Bite or V Groove, etc.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/33955-panel-gerber-in-different-concept-like-mouse-bite-or-v-groove-etc) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How much does CAM350 cost?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-much-does-cam350-cost) - 1 comment - [ODB++ copper Shapes comes out from the board out line why ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/33755-odb-copper-shapes-comes-out-from-the-board-out-line-why) - 1 comment - [View CAM350 pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/cam350/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+09%3A19%3A32+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=c7f7fd38-7d51-4fc3-8f86-0dc56ff814d6&secure%5Btoken%5D=0d8d2e201c891cca23a5723fec6e7f663c3df3cecb5b667f8a5fa6d18b3c28dd&format=llm_user) ## CAM350 Features **Design** - PCB layout editing - Schematic editor **Tools** - 3D modeling tools - Component placement **Library** - Component libraries **Platform** - Board size - Layers **Customization** - Custom commands - Custom interface ## Top CAM350 Alternatives - [Altium Develop](https://www.g2.com/products/altium-develop/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (974 reviews) - [Autodesk Fusion](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-fusion/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (507 reviews) - [SOLIDWORKS](https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (628 reviews)