Support is what you want with your CAM, for training tips & post-processing mods.

I've been looking for quite some time and now are about to spend 40k on SolidCam, which is the best option for me as it is also well supported in Australia. Not straight forward to use, always having to sketch contain and avoid areas - though its been a couple of years. I have used Camworks at my last company and it was pretty poor. If your looking at buying a premium CAM addin for Solidworks look around a bit more. Facing the “Price War”, Steeltailor Says “No” to Price Reduction.That brings the yearly fees up to 43% which is BY FAR the highest I have ever heard of for anything. Out of this is the first years fees which leaves basically $6,550.00 for the software. What is even scarrier is that my quote was a total of $11,400.00 - $2,000.00 discount to $9,400.00.

It costs more but runs right at $1,600.00 for $13,000.00 of software. Are these guys for real? What have you paid and just how badly are they trying to gouge me? Or even worse is this their standard offer? I am thinking here about Featurecam for instance which is a fine program to. So we have $8,550 for the software and this takes me to 33% for annual fees. OK, I am being given an initial quote of $11,400.00 for 3axis with SW core concepts and CW mill fundamentals.

Solidcam price