thanks for everyone's input... As far as smartcam not running on future hardware, I still have an old version of smartCAM from about 15 years ago that is still running well and still producing code for the latest machines around. I think your fears of some new type of hardware making hard drives obsolete is not very realistic. And if in another 15-20 years that happens then we will undoubtedly upgrade to a new super-MasterCAM or whatever, and we will not have been paying for maintenance upgrades for all those years and we will still have a software with macros and ease of use that still surpasses the present crop. Any new improvements to new software seems to be in the area of solid modelling and 3-d, which I don't need anyways... as for re-creating programs, the new super masterCAM or whatever of the future will undoubtedly be so easy to use that it will be a joy to re-program the existing parts when drawing changes are made... just my thoughts, I could be wrong as well...
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