It's a great move for Alibre. MoI will bring powerful, easy to use modeling features to their package....An advantage of Alibre software is it has parametrics and assemblies.. Although it's not top of the line, I dont think it's fair to call it second rate. I dont think it will hurt MoI in any way either... I think it will intoduce MoI to a wider CAM market. So far, many artists in their communities know about MoI.. It's still largley undiscovered in the Machinist industry.

Normally I dont speak about/promote softwares in other peoples forums... I think I will introduce MoI in a couple I participate in now!!!

Good luck Michael! :)