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Re: Getting SolidWorks

Dear Mr. Lim,

I noticed that VisualMill is a commercial program. Can you tell me about how much it costs. We currently use a commercial program, MasterCAM, and it does what we need.

Like most of y'all, we're a team working on a tight budget, and anytime we can find an "open source" program to fulfill our needs it's great. Or, bless the big guys, when companies like AutoDesk and SolidWorks provide copies of their software for robotics students it's equally great. But getting a lot of commercial programs, with their yearly update / subscription / maintenance agreements, stretches our resources...

Doc
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