Hi! I'm new here but have been using mastercam for roughly 10 years. That is, up until 5 months ago when I started at the company that I am currently employed at. They have CamWorks and a 1 year old Okuma HMC. They made a somewhat uninformed decision to buy CW over MC primarily because management looked at CW and it looked more "user friendly" over mastercam. CW is just a plain old PITA. Now to be fair, we have the basic 2.5 axis mill software. None the less, It sucks. It really wants you to use the FBM machining in it which doesn't work well. The tool database in it only comes with about 15 tools in it (total). You must draw or import all tool geometry for everything you use. Get mastercam.