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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday February 26, @07:35PM (1 child)

    by mhajicek (51) on Thursday February 26, @07:35PM (#1435054)

    There are a few practical alternatives to Mastercam, but they're all similarly priced, and they're all Windows only.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 26, @10:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 26, @10:04PM (#1435065)

    Thanks for the correction. I probably took the machinist I mentioned in another comment too literally when he said there are none. He could also have meant it as a "none worth using" sort of sense as everyone there already used Mastercam, the new people coming in from college know Mastercam, and they are all similarly priced anyway. But what do I know? I can just relate what he told me before I stood there watching like an amazed child as the almost-million-dollar machine turned a rod of metal into usable parts identical to fractions of a millimeter in a matter of minutes.