Bob Wolcott has several in his shop and would be a great source. But alas it will take the all mighty Daniel to send Bob an email and let him know he can now log in since he got locked out when emastercam changed the system a while back.

Hi Matt, We have 3 generations of Makino 1 series machines and currently already have 5 NX-B machines (PRO 6). If you would like, PM me and we could talk next week. I think I could get you some pretty good info for getting started. Mike

Inventor HSM is a good program and so is Mastercam. Price is just one part of evaluating a software. How easy is it to get help? How easy is it to get a custom post processor? AutoDesk did themselves a huge favour by giving free software to all schools and students. Every student that graduates will have some AutoDesk experience. They also purchased some great software companies as well such as PowerMill. I think everyone should evaluate their software periodically to see if it still fits their needs.