BB,
Thank you for the info, this does explain your latenight posts as not being a symptom of insomniatic time to fill. There's a nobility in always being second and I will take solace in that.
As for the interface. When I first saw the changes, I resisted it almost as much as the legions who despised MasterCAM X when it first bowed. After a few hairpulls (not much left to go), I am now much faster with it than I was with the old one. I am now willing to admit that it dovetails closer to SolidWorks as well.
I still don't get certain things like why Indexing is called "Indexial", and why I have to enter the previous diameter of my tool for rest machinng (deosn't it know?), but I can live with it.
I don't know if the interface is close to Visi as I am not familiar with it, but as long as it is on the right path and it doesn't morph into MasterCAM X, I'm good! Cheers,