Mastercam 2023 Released?

[gcode]

It's amazing how far things have come in just the last 11 years.

Try the last 30 years
I remember trying to bring a 1 meg file home from work back in the 5" floppy days (126K capacity)
They had utilities that would break up and zip a file into segments that would fit on your floppies
The one meg file zipped down to 6 discs.
Then you take the 6 discs home and unzip them back into one file.
I tried for 2 weeks. In the end I gave up, took my work pc home hooked them up and transferred the file.
This was in the DOS days and my PC's had 10 meg hard drives which were considered massive.

One of the reasons I dropped Procad was because I couldn't get an update.
I'd spent months dealing with ProCad 97, (aka Crashfest 97)
One day I get a post card announcing a new version available for download
File size was 40 meg. It was broken into eight 5 meg files that you downloaded then unzipped
to produce one 40 meg install file.

I was running a 56K modem and had a teen aged daughter in the house.
I could not successfully download a 5 meg file no matter what time of night
I started. She would invariably pick up the phone, or someone would call and break the connection.

I tried for a month before I gave up and called Procad.
I asked them to ship me the install and offered to pay any reasonable fees.
They refused. After a month of failure trying to down load the install package
their refusal made me very angry.

About that time I got a call from our local Mastercam dealer inviting me to a V8 rollout event.
Procad was kicked to the curb shortly there after.

Mastercam was delivered via mail on 5 or 6 3.5" floppies. Moving to CD's was a huger improvement.
Today I download a 2.7 gig Mastercam install in 2 minutes via a 1gig Spectrum cable connection and just laugh.

 

[beej]

the first version I worked on was v3.11 IIRC. 1991. dos version.  there were no surfaces then. lofted tool paths (which were called Ruled) and swept toolpaths, etc. and they came out with a really cool toolpath called COONS. You had to trim 1 toolpath to another to keep them from undercutting a floor or wall. or a couple versions later, you could generate a path, backplot as geometry, edit the geometry and chain it. Once you created a path there was very little ways to edit a parameter, after the fact. We used to call it "One Time Through"  If you made a mistake you had to rewrite the program or edit the Gcode.

[Brian]

Mastercam was delivered via mail on 5 or 6 3.5" floppies. Moving to CD's was a huger improvement.
Today I download a 2.7 gig Mastercam install in 2 minutes via a 1gig Spectrum cable connection and just laugh.

LOL about installing large programs from floppies, etc! I think CADKEY7 was (7) 1.44MB floppies, and around the same time am pretty sure a copy of MS Office was 23! Topsolid was a couple of DVD's until recently, and is now download only. It looks like it's up to about 12GB!

[gcode]

MS Office was 23!

Windows 3.1 was about 23 discs and a days work on a good PC
I can remeber frantically calling everyone I knew looking for a disc #17
because my disc #17 was defective and failed right in the middle of the process