A professional package at a reasonable price ( 600 usd If I remember ) but it was a disaster , full of bugs
Even worse they refused to admit the evidence
I suppose that they disgusted many clients, me for sure
I bought it cheaper (maybe half of the price you mentioned) but experienced a similar story.
I liked the way of modeling very much. It worked great and fast. I could do a lot with these little gizmos. But uv-mapping was bad and animation crashed it a lot. There was no way for texture baking and baking or rendering normal maps was not possible. So I left it and switched to Lightwave at that time. And recently I added Modo. Both are working great together.
When I posted any questions and problems in the Caligari forums then the posts just got ignored. It always felt like a dead and no more supported tool. I was happy to make the switch.
Even a free software will not help in this matter. I need a tool that simply works.
