The Mastercam X6 interface is a top priority. As is finishing up the Espirit interface, the Surfcam interface, and the Catia V6 interface. With any luck, they will all make it into the 7.2 release. And to find out when version 7.2 will be released, you will have to show up to the annual VERICUT User Exchange March 5, 2012 in Irvine, CA. That is when I, and more than 100 VERICUT users, will hear about the projected release schedule for 7.2.

I work for CGTech and have been selling VERICUT in CA for 18 years. As has been already pointed out, most shops that buy VERICUT have multi-axis machines. But, we do sell to smaller shops. What often gets misunderstood is that the cost for a base seat of VERICUT (US Price) is $7,000. That will process very complex 3-axis g-code data. Most shops do not think $7,000 is expensive. It is when you add the many additional modules of VERICUT that the price can get expensive. One of those modules is OptiPath. And we do sell VERICUT and OptiPath to smaller 3-axis only shops. And this is why...If a shop has 8 machines that run 10 hours a day, they have 80 hours of machine time a day, 400 hours in five days, 1,600 hours a month. If OptiPath can save just 10% of that time, this company will save 160 hours of machine time a month, 1,920 hours a year. If the shop charges $50 per hour for machine time, that shop will save $96,000 in machine time a year. The cost to buy VERICUT, even for a small 3-axis machine shop, can be justified in just a couple of months. And the assumed 10% savings using OptiPath is very conservative!!!!! And who charges just $50 an hour? Nobody here in CA. So, the real world savings are much more than in this example. In this economy, we are speaking with shop owners that are trying to save money every way they can. More than half my time today is spent with companies looking to implement OptiPath.