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Originally Posted by Beth Sweet
I would love to know where you guys get your math! The real cost of the KOP? Probably around $10,000 by the estimates that I've heard. The software alone is around $2,000. Perhaps we need to take one more look at what is in the kit and its market values before we give what we might value the kit at
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I can't remember where, but I've seen the $16,000 in print and it may have been FIRST literature.
Consider this, even if you estimate the material kit at $10K, the autodesk software alone if more then $2000. Inventor 11 lists for $5295 on Autodesk's website (non-educational version). You can get the student versions for much less, (probably about $750 for Inventor and 3ds Max) but what we get are more then single license versions, and usually ship with more then the retail educational editions.
Ayway you look at it, the KOP prices individually are much more then we pay. The question I would pose is this, just because you don't need it this year, how can you say it won't come in handy in the future? My team collected 6 years of pneumatics kits before using it heavily one year... All those fittings and such suddenly because very useful.