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The first production Pro Stock version made power equal to the best thus far by the OEM and third party cast heads that have been on the market for two or three decades. It is highly sculpted to leave only enough material to preserve the head’s structural integrity while reducing its weight to a mere 20 lbs. I am not on the Autodesk payroll.yet, haha.The new billet head starts out as a solid 100 lb. If you are or employ dummies, retaining resellers may be wise. In my opinion, if you have intelligent users, resellers are a waste of money. Mastercam and Solidworks force you to use resellers per my experience which is where most of the cost comes in. Fusion 360 can be bought directly from Autodesk right now for $668 or so for 3 years. Solidworks Standard will cost you $4k up front plus $1k per year. All of those numbers are from experience, not research.

A comparatively functional seat of Mastercam will cost you $13k up front plus $1.5k per year and if you want help with a post, they may charge you $3.5k. It does most of what those two softwares do for a true fraction of the cost. On top of its functionality, it doesn't have locked posts like Mastercam, you aren't forced to work with a reseller like Mastercam and Solidworks. I am just beginning to move into Fusion 360 from an in depth recent history of Solidworks and MasterCam usage and management and can advise that Fusion 360 is a very good product. If Autodesk Sales is telling you HSMWorks is being phased out, I'd take it as gospel.

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