Fate of G-Wizard?

[Jon@NOWHERE]

How good is Volumill now?
I'm still on their sales email list and occasionally get a sales email from them.
From the tone of the emails and such I'd guess they are struggling... or at least not thriving.

It works as well for me as I remember it had in the past.  I do use NX's dynamic toolpaths more now, but I don't believe they slow the tool down any when entering the cut like I believe Volumill still does which is one of the things I like.

[MIL-TFP-41]

How good is Volumill now?
I'm still on their sales email list and occasionally get a sales email from them.
From the tone of the emails and such I'd guess they are struggling... or at least not thriving.

I remember years ago they had to pay royalties to Surfcam for copying the truepath engine. If they are struggling and still have to do the royalty thing....ouch. That coupled with almost every CAM system out there has developed their own flavor...lets say it wouldn't be a good time to invest in that company.

[Brian]

Hasn't Celeritive (makers of VM) been purchased by Moduleworks?

https://www.moduleworks.com/moduleworks-announces-successful-acquisition-of-celeritive-technologies/

[CNCAppsJames]

Hasn't Celeritive (makers of VM) been purchased by Moduleworks?

https://www.moduleworks.com/moduleworks-announces-successful-acquisition-of-celeritive-technologies/

I wonder if a human owns the patent on the Volumill algorithm as opposewd to Celerative.

[CNCAppsJames]

IIRC what differentiated them from everyone else's strategy was tool angle of engagement which is MUCH different than step-over. Personally, in difficult materials I think angle of engagement is a better strategy at least on inside corners. A step-over engagement can spike % of tool diameter up close to 100% depending on the inside angle of the corner which Mastercam does give you some control over as to where it goes and how it goes there, but still, not quite as good. Good enough? Usually.