I bought the upgrade to V20 and they also sold me on the Bob-Art. I don't know how often I will actually use the Bob-Art, but it will be nice to have it if I do decide to do some of that kind of work. The importing of files is dead right, I imported a couple of different files that I couldn't import into V17 and they were awesome, not a line or arc or even point out of place.
One concern I have is the documentation, how detailed is the manual? The manuals I got with V17 were ok, but left me with a lot of questions that I had to answer on my own thru trial and error. I downloaded the demo, and from what I can figure out it will be a vast improvement over trying to do 3d work in V17. Seems that creating surfaces is now an easy thing to do. I haven't gotten too deep into toolpaths, but from skimming thru it, it reminded me a lot of Mastercam, with all the tool details, roughing and finishing passes and such.
How much modification can be done to the post processor? Can it be completely modified for anything you need or is it limited to only certain variables? (I need to change the Peck Drill, Peck designator, from a Q to an E, can that be done in the post?)
I'll try and let you guys know how it works out for me. BTW, I am mainly going to be using it for Moldmaking, 3D milling mostly.
Jim