I won't discuss price with you, buy you have some misconceptions about Mastercam.
It is not expensive, when compared to ANY comparable product. We're not talking about a few dollars either.
The design package that comes with Mastercam is incredible for a CAM package, and not bad compared to many CAD packages.
There is a ras2vec converter that you can get with Mastercam, for a reasonable price.
You MOST ABSOLUTELY CAN write your own posts for Mastercam. So much so, in fact, that I've seen posts that CREATE, MODIFY and OPEN excel spreadsheets RIGHT FROM THE POST PROCESSOR! It's almost unlimited what you can do with your posts. And Mastercam ships with tons of them right on the CD, that will usually do an acceptable job for the machine they were designed for.
Those other shops have Mastercam for a reason.
'Rekd teh enlightenment
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San Diego, Ca
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