The amendments also align with the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST), which require the SEC eliminate duplicative, outdated, or otherwise unnecessary provisions. These amendments are part of a broader initiative from the Division of Corporation Finance, a branch of the SEC, to review and update disclosure requirements in an attempt to improve them to benefit both investors and issuers. The amendments became effective on November 5 2018. These amendments are designed to ease regulatory burdens on issuers, while facilitating disclosure to investors. These amendments were aimed to get rid of disclosure requirements that appeared to be duplicative, overlapping, or outdated. The 3D tool paths are also VERY useful, even for 2D parts.The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted in August to adopt amendments designed to simplify and update disclosure requirements. The regular versions (HSMWorks and Inventor HSM) do not have this limitation and nor does Fusion, so I would recommend trying them. I've made many hundreds of parts with HSMXpress and very rarely has the lack of direct stock simulation been an issue. This is quite annoying but considering that the (E)xpress versions are free (literally you never have to pay for them) it's really not that bad a deal. Instead it uses a rectangular bounding box of whatever the solid shape is. But it's usefulness is quite limited because the tool path simulation won't use it directly. I know in HSMXpress (Solidworks version) there is an option for 'stock from solid' in the job setup. PS: This is for Inventor, if that matters.

My boss has asked me to evaluate CAM packages, and for what we do HSM Express seemed to be the ideal solution (95% 2.5), but if we can't load up the starting stock shape and show the cuts on it in simulation, it seems far less useful. Are you saying that HSM Express won't show material removal from stock at all? I just downloaded it to try it out and immediately tripped over the stock issue, so I haven't gone any firther. I'm not sure I understand your comment about Stock Simulation not being available.

Our work is with extrusions, it's a rare job where we start with a simple block or cylinder, hence my desire to find a cam package where I can load up the starting material whatever odd shape it might be,

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