I actually don't utilize the feature recognition as much as I could, I use it mainly to recognize holes, tapped, reamed, counterbore, etc. Well it takes time to make it work how you want, everyone programs differently, over 15 years and I'm still making adjustments, adding to my TechDB to 'perfect' the way it does things. One thing I've noticed over the years reading forums and seeing new users try it, they are 3 days in and cant figure out why the feature recognition isn't perfect. You can go to both the websites listed above and and view their partners and see all the CAM partners they license toolpaths to. I tell everyone looking at CAM software to keep this in mind, IMO ones is NOT better than the next, what makes a software better is solely opinion and how well you can comprehend and understand how the toolpaths were implemented within the software's settings. I found that a majority of these CAM software's license their toolpaths from ModuleWorks and MachineWorks, so behind the scenes the software is generating the same toolpath, the only thing different is what you see and how CAMWorks implemented 'Toolpath X' into their software lay out.

And after doing a lot of research one thing everyone should do when looking at software (any software) is research. The only thing IMO I found comparable to CAMWorks was Siemens NX. I wanted to give everything an option being I was about to just drop over $10k on a seat. It was about 3 years ago I bought my own seat of SW/CW and had been a long time CAMWorks user, and have had experience/used other software, MasterCam, SurfCam, BobCad.

I have the CAMWorks Milling Professional Package. Recently SolidWorks released their SolidWorksCAM that is included with SolidWorks, that is essentially CAMWorks, from what I've heard and can tell its pretty basic though. I've been using CAMWorks for over 15 years and have not had any issues, I program quite complex parts daily with it.

Camworks student version