A little off topic but I come from an Adobe background where a program seat is about 1000. Are CAM software that costly to produce? Could they be so much more complicated than After Effects, etc. These extraordinary cost likely help guys rationalize using cracked versions. Afterall, not every man with a VMC profits 10,000 a month. I am lucky that I am in tech school now and was given a 3 year Educational Inventor/HSM Pro by AutoDesk. My VMC is really just a learning tool as I dont make money with it now. Very generous and smart as I will surely buy what I know when I get out. Just my worthless .02$