To understand the market share gains and losses better, you’ll want to drill down on some of the other survey analysis such as Share of Mind, Top Features, Top Frustrations, Conversions Rates and Product Strengths and Weaknesses. Notable share losers were GibbsCAM, SurfCAM, Catia, and Pro/E. Below the Top 5, Edgecam, Alphacam, Esprit, TopSolid, and Hypermill all made good gains in market share.Apparently the merger with Autodesk has been a good idea for the product. Powermill and Solidcam are tied for the #4 and #5 places, but Solidcam has lost a little overall share while Powermill is coming on pretty strongly.OneCNC is hanging in at the same #3 position and even picked up some share, moving from 6% to 8%.These are the full-featured versions that integrate with Solidworks and Inventor. Note that this is not the inexpensive Fusion 360 version. HSMWorks has made stunning gains-moving from #5 and 5% share to #2 and 17% share.

NX fell from #2 to #6 and is no longer in the Top 5.Mastercam remains the #1 player and even gained share-moving from 22% to 27%.Here are the highlights of 2015 relative to the 2014 results: The market is indeed gradually consolidating. There are still a great many players, but the Top 5 account for 5% of the market while in 2014 the Top 5 were 51%.

There had been predictions of consolidation, but consolidation was not apparent in the data. The High End was the largest part of our survey and accounted for 47% of adoptions.įor our 2014 Survey, we remarked that the High-End CAM Software Market was crowded, fragmented, and somewhat confusing.

Low-End: Thees are inexpensive packages most commonly used by Hobbyists, but as we’ll see, they’re starting to come up-market to the Professional World.

Tiered: Modular packages available in a range of configurations that span from the Low-End to the High-End.

High-End: More expensive packages with more functionality.

We’ll be doing one every year from now on–the market is just changing too quickly to look only every other year.

We’ve just completed our 4th CAM Software Market Share Survey, and the results are fascinating.

Hypermill vs mastercam