X9 Beta wrap up

[gcode]

For those of you who don't follow this new Mastercam forum

 

http://forum.mastercam.com/Topic7952.aspx

 

 

 

Now that Mastercam X9 has been officially released, I just wanted to take a few minutes to thank all of you that participated in the beta program. We very much appreciate your efforts and feedback that helps us produce a better product.

The X9 project was shorter duration than recent releases,but still contained more than 4000 discrete work items and that adds up to a lot of new and updated code inside the product. We made approximately 300changes to the Mastercam X9 software  over the course of the public beta program and around a third of these changes originated from our customers and reseller community.

Our beta program spanned two phases, a closed beta through a series of technical previews which are issued to registered beta testers and a public beta where anyone with current maintenance can download and try the new version. We are welcoming more participation in the closed beta program so if you would like to get involved earlier with the latest software, please contact your reseller. The first technical previews for X9 were made available in Fall 2014 and the final PC shipped in mid-May 2015. More than 2500 of you downloaded the beta releases.

Mastercam X9 will be the last of the X series of releases.Future releases will reflect the year in the version name. The next release is scheduled for the Spring of 2016 and it is going to look quite a bit different,so keep an eye for more news on this later in the year.  Technical previews will be available in the Fall followed by a public beta program early next year. That is the plan at the moment, but like anything in the future, the details could change.

Our forum has been a big help in allowing us to interact directly with many of our customers so thanks for your posts here . We’ve also issued surveys with each beta release and you have given us some great data that will help guide what we do with the product in future releases, so please keep it coming.More than 500 of you responded to our surveys during the X9 cycle and more than2000 have responded to the more general customer satisfaction survey(also see the link from the Help menu in Mastercam). There will be one more X9 wrap up survey coming along in the next week or so.

During the course of the Mastercam X8 release we issued 4updates containing a total of about 45 changes to respond to maintenance and support requests from our customers. In terms of updates for Mastercam X9, we expect to follow a similar pattern. Small incremental updates will be made available via the Auto Update Service and also on the download area at Mastercam.com. We do not expect to issue a formal MU at this point.

The Mastercam X9 What’s new videos are up on the Mastercam channel on YouTube and whatsnew.mastercam.com has more detail on the new features in the release.  Take a trip over to these sites and find out more. 

Once again, on behalf of the entire development team here at CNC Software, please accept our thanks for your feedback and help in delivering Mastercam X9. We very much appreciate your input and ,even if we can’t act on it immediately, we do factor this into the planning for future Mastercam releases.

 

Regards

 

Dave

David Boucher | Director, Product Development

 

 

So the next release will not be X10, it will be Mastercam 2016

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

And in keeping up with the times, interface will be by touchscreen and Microsoft Kinect only.  

[Newbeeee™]

And in keeping up with the times, interface will be by touchscreen and Microsoft Kinect only.  

Hope not - have you seen the size of my sausages...

[Mick]

"and it is going to look quite a bit different"

 

Biting tongue

[Newbeeee™]

"and it is going to look quite a bit different"

 

Biting tongue

Ohhhh he of little faith

[Guest]

Ohhhh he of little faith

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[gcode]

I've seen an alpha version of a new interface and it's very nice.

I have no idea how many years out it may be though or if it's even in development

At any rate I'm looking forward to a new beta cycle

[Newbeeee™]

I've seen an alpha version of a new interface and it's very nice.

I have no idea how many years out it may be though or if it's even in development

At any rate I'm looking forward to a new beta cycle

G - are you a cyborg?