Why Hsm pro (not 360) beats bobcad? Well I'd say it's much faster to create toolpaths, learning curve is about 1/8th of bobcad, simulation crash detection is much better, tool library/setup is better layed out, it creates professional looking setup sheets and most of all it is user friendly and looks great on screen. But this is my opinion, Bobcam may be your preference but end of the day a cad cam solution will always potentially be a faster route from idea to part if that is ever a requirement, purely due to better intergration, with no translation of formats, Switching of software etc
Fusion 360 ultimate, ok I hadn't heard of this but I can say I regularily have conversations with my autodesk representative about saving money who will openly tell me that if I do not require certain functions to close the membership and go with the free version of fusion 360, but he makes it pretty clear that if I want these functions it is autodesks business model to offer the free versions to increase interest in the full version. giving away full functionality for free isn't going to happen, infact I would be fuming if they did having spent a lot of money on it. So keep on dreaming guys.
Hi mark, thanks for the link, yes it says it has some of the functionality of Hsm works being added and list of just a few gives it away really as what it doesn't tell you is that there are infact many versions of hsmworks, I'm now on my third version, the pro version.
If I find the same functionality is one day made free, I for one would cancel my license imediately, and pretty sure many would follow suit so it would be pretty poor business sense