Interesting!!!  As a former employee of Services Four Automation, which was sold to Cimquest, I can't help but wonder.  What happens to Cimquest employees?  SFA's founder, Steve B. was made an employee of Cimquest when it was bought.  Will ALL Cimquest employees be welcomed into the Mastercam fold?  Are they just changing the name on the face on the building?

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10 programmers 10 user licenses. 10 machines then each user has to pay per machine 100 machine license no way to float them between users.

As always, it is best to contact YOUR software provider regarding policies and pricing rather than rely on Reddit, eMastercam, Practical Machinist, CNC Zone, etc... for accurate up to date information. Many unlisted factors go into pricing and policies.

Yes there is a per-user license, there is no "per-machine" cost to the best of my knowledge. We have a number of customers with 5+ machine tool builder variety with multiple machines from each builder and they only pay the per user cost.

The AD haters were predicting doom and gloom for the product. They pretty much look like we all did when we predicted SolidWorks' demise... WRONG!

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What the Autodesk sales person started quoting us to keep being a partner and that has been many years. Either way I have what I need to get work done.

I was part of the S4A > Cimquest transition.....That was just technical on the business side.....no real early changes to the customer experience except several other AE's and services coming available...

I know nothing has changed substantially for us as end users, but I fear the day will come. You know... the 'buy now' button beside the recommended tool for your operation based on the AI's suggestion from the Sandvik library.

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Several updates per year now is how it is as opposed to how it used to be, but, I haven't run into any show stoppers so it's fine. There's always a work around... just like Mastercam.

I see it creating more issues for all Mastercam customers. Happy for Rob and the people at Cimquest they are all good people, but what kind of signal does this send to customers and other resellers? Are we seeing this turn into another Auto Desk or Hexagon power play for the market share?

From all I have heard, early on, no big changes other then how the business end is handled....currently Cimquest is running as it has....

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They missed "leverage", you shouldn't announce something like this unless you've added how it will help us end-users "leverage" something or other against our "solution" needs.

While true there is no actual "floating" license, I personally manage 12 (IIRC) licenses between 15 to 20 users. I have no trouble or issues doing it. I assign and revoke as needed. It takes maybe 30 seconds.

10 programmers 10 user licenses. 10 machines then each user has to pay per machine 100 machine license no way to float them between users.

Several updates per year now is how it is as opposed to how it used to be, but, I haven't run into any show stoppers so it's fine. There's always a work around... just like Mastercam.

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Thanks for the info John.  I can't help but think Mastercam may look to acquire all resellers in the future.  Or at least the US ones.  How many are there in the US?  Did they acquire MACDAC too?  I know for years MACDAC answered their phones as if they were Mastercam.  That was under the OG management though so maybe it's different today.

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Yes there is a per-user license, there is no "per-machine" cost to the best of my knowledge. We have a number of customers with 5+ machine tool builder variety with multiple machines from each builder and they only pay the per user cost.

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From all I have heard, early on, no big changes other then how the business end is handled....currently Cimquest is running as it has....

My suspicion is several other resellers will be purchased, though not all and Sandvik will take sales and support in house....I have zero info to base that on just how I think they'll move ahead over the coming years

This company will NOT utilize software that is subscription based.....Autodesk was already dropped...Materialise is about to hit the curb...if a perpetual license isn't available it won't be here.

So far the Autodesk acquisition of CAMplete has been no factor. The only kind of negative so far is bug fixes and feature enhancements are mostly on a schedule now. That said, the subscription only model isn't great. I like to own stuff, not lease it. However the product is phenomenal and is a way better posting solution than anything else out there.

10 programmers 10 user licenses. 10 machines then each user has to pay per machine 100 machine license no way to float them between users.

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The AD haters were predicting doom and gloom for the product. They pretty much look like we all did when we predicted SolidWorks' demise... WRONG!

I merely wanted to correct you in case someone took what you stated as policy and were prepared to make a decision based on that statement.

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What the Autodesk sales person started quoting us to keep being a partner and that has been many years. Either way I have what I need to get work done.

No floating network license anymore cost per machine plus per user account yeah that doesn't have highway robbery written all over it.

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I know nothing has changed substantially for us as end users, but I fear the day will come. You know... the 'buy now' button beside the recommended tool for your operation based on the AI's suggestion from the Sandvik library.

As always, it is best to contact YOUR software provider regarding policies and pricing rather than rely on Reddit, eMastercam, Practical Machinist, CNC Zone, etc... for accurate up to date information. Many unlisted factors go into pricing and policies.

So far the Autodesk acquisition of CAMplete has been no factor. The only kind of negative so far is bug fixes and feature enhancements are mostly on a schedule now. That said, the subscription only model isn't great. I like to own stuff, not lease it. However the product is phenomenal and is a way better posting solution than anything else out there.

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I merely wanted to correct you in case someone took what you stated as policy and were prepared to make a decision based on that statement.

Thanks for the info John.  I can't help but think Mastercam may look to acquire all resellers in the future.  Or at least the US ones.  How many are there in the US?  Did they acquire MACDAC too?  I know for years MACDAC answered their phones as if they were Mastercam.  That was under the OG management though so maybe it's different today.