Vectric Price rises

[davo453]

Autodesk have always been expensive I was an 8086 assembler coder for them in the 1980's (pre Windows) and they were even more expensive then (had to be to afford me).

Just a shame Vectric are using the fall in the value of the pound as a reason to put the prices up when it's developed and marketed from here.

[Boyan Silyavski]

The way i see it anything higher than 100-150 euro is not meant for hobby. That should be clear. And if its business, then the price of 699$ is not so big. Just another tool. That's how i think and that's how they think. And that's how it will be or the other scheme:pay 30-100 per month till the end of the days

What exactly were you going to use Vcarve for?

Fusion may be good for general machining, but specialised signmaking programs like Vectric are simply way ahead for their purpose.

i would suggest that ESTLCAm for 50 euro can do as much as vectric, if not more in some details as having the ability to generate trochoidal toolpaths. It has some small drawbacks and details that have to be further polished too, but nothing to worry on signmaking and general jobs.

Recently i had started to use it alot. Especially for the reason of the trochoidal toolpaths. I can do the same in NX but it will take me an hour just to program a pocket job, that's why i have difficulty learning the CAM part of it. I am telling you- it will be 50 euros well spent, believe me on that

[John S]

Autodesk have always been expensive I was an 8086 assembler coder for them in the 1980's (pre Windows) and they were even more expensive then (had to be to afford me).

Just a shame Vectric are using the fall in the value of the pound as a reason to put the prices up when it's developed and marketed from here.

??? How can Fusion 360 which is free for small users be expensive ??

I can understand Vectric move as their biggest market is the States. They do two, sometime three 2 day seminars over in the States every year but we only get a one day event and that is never over subscribed. It's done more to keep the natives in line.