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Not just for .edu accounts, we hobby machinists could really use a decent CAM facility that's fully integrated with OnShape and doesn't require the bad hybrid workflow with Fusion hobbyist edition that we have to put up with now. A $2.5K subscription is a complete non-starter for home machinists. I hope OS can figure out some reasonable plan to support the hobbyist use case. XYZA, basic tool changer, and Acorn/Mach4/LinuxCNC posts would make a lot of people happy. And please not the crippling of rapids that Fusion saddles us with…we already have relatively slow moving machines.

"Also AutoDesk just sent out to HSMWorks customers that they are retiring it on March 25th, 2028"
That's what I hate with subscriptions (Onshape not counting as a cloud native service where even access to old versions would mean ongoing costs for PTC - there subscription is unfortunately the only realistic option).
HSMWorks would probably perfectly well continue to work for the next 20 years if you keep a compatible machine. And in many cases it probably can do everything needed for the job. But still, it will cease to function, just because of that business model and a company wanting to enforce to buy their new stuff instead. This is just artificial, planned obsolescence without any technical need, making something non-functional that would otherwise perfectly continue to work. Which should imho be forbidden.