A couple of points.
philbur - SprutCAM is not a full 4 axis solution it is only 3 + 1 (positional).
3. VisualMILL Professional (PRO) 6.0 with the 4th Axis Module (does anyone know the price in Sweden or nearest agent?). Do I need Visual CAM with this? Any yearly costs? Any imported file type limitations?
VM6 Pro automatically has 4 axis (it is not an added module).
You can however buy VM6 (standard) and add 4 axis to it.
VisualCAM is more or less a "menu" or "index" where you chose which MecSoft program you wish to run (if you have more than one of their products). So VisualCAM is no additional cost and is automatically included with any purchase of MecSoft.
There are NO yearly costs, SPs and tech support are free.
It will not import EVERY file type, what specifically are you interested in?
MecSoft also confuse me with (parallell?) products such as all the Rhino products. Which are the best? VM or Rhino?
Rhino has nothing to do with MecSoft (sort of).
Rhino is a CAD program that has decided it wanted to provide it's customers with CAM. MecSoft provided some sort of version of VM to them that they integrated as a plug-in. I do not know it's capabilities.
IMO a program designed specifically for CAM will do the BEST CAM with the most features.
What does "best" mean to you?
If you already have great CAD why would you pay for another program with CAD when what you want is CAM?
As mentioned above AlibreCAM uses VM5 as it's plug-in. VM5 was great but VM6 is better.
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