At least in the US, Alibre very quietly changed their terms, so while they still advertise it as costing $97, they require you to buy the first year of maintenance at $100. Annoying, but considering that it was $995 and I think $300 for maintenance for the same package not too long ago (not including the translation package which was an extra $300 I believe), it's hard to complain too much. I haven't heard that they were dropping the Translate package as of April, but judging by how often they change their pricing, it wouldn't surprise me.
However to get usable CAM, you still need to spend an additional $1k for either AlibreCAM or Visual Mill for a really easy to use package, or $150 for CamBam, which isn't really, designed for working from solid models. Alibre is annoying enough that either the non-commercial version of Pro-E ($250, but only if you are a hobbyist) or the bundle of Rhino and MadCAM ($1400, http://www.novedge.com/products/1121) are pretty tempting. On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Andy Pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 March 2010 00:17, Mike Payson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Alibre CAD (which is only $197) > > Alibre CAD was $97 unsupported last time I looked, or £89 from the UK > distributor. But when I looked again yesterday the US price was $197 > with 1 year support and included and no sign of an option to skip the > support. So I bought the UK version. (As my work IP address looks to > be in the US (19.X.X.X) I could probably have bought online from the > US) > > The reason I bought in a hurry was that currently Alibre comes with > the Autodesk Inventor and Solidworks import/export options included, > but as of 1st April this will no longer be the case. > > I have used Alibre CAM in "demo mode" and it looks like it integrates > well with the CAD, but I have had a lot more success using SheetCAM > for my 2.5D stuff. > > As has been pointed out, none are free or Linux native, but I run them > all in VMWare on my Mac anyway. > > -- > atp > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
