Chris,
With that budget you might have eliminated my entire list with the exception of CAMWorks. CAMWorks is made by Techsoft. Techsoft is a main stream CAM package on par with MasterCAM. MasterCAM is expensive we paid $17K for 3-axis mill and 2-axis lathe....we might have some other options but I don't use it on a daily basis because it's nod locked to our R&D mold makers machine. I have no idea what GIBs CAM currently sells for. I worked at a company that used Gibs and they were not happy with it's functionality but again it was not supported and I have no idea what revision it was. The bottom line is with your budget I think you will be happy with CAMWorks. I've seen the demos and it's impressive....just make sure you keep the tool locations constant. Tool location control is my pet peeve
Best Regards,
Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
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