free CADCAM

For anyone wanting to explore FreeCAD I would highly recommend using the latest development versions. There are nightly builds available through a ppa but I personally would (and do) opt for the near weekly builds of the AppImages from here - github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bundle/releases/tag/weekly-builds - Linux, Mac and Window$. No worries about dependences and if any given build has a showstopper bug, you can still have the last weeks to keep going until the next build that will, 99% of the time have that bug fixed. Lots of advanced and more complete features keep showing up. Especially in the CAM workbench.

This is worth reiterating, IMO. Folks seem to be offput by the risk of bugs/crashes in the "weekly" builds, which is both fair and overblown. It's fair in that individual weekly builds occasionally have large issues/bugs (hence Spyderbreath's sound suggestion to not delete your known-working version until you've verified the very latest works). It's overblown in that most of the time they're actually less prone to crashing than 1.0 and have a lot of improvements.

This isn't Microsoft- you can find a weekly build that works for you, and then just not update it if you want a middle ground of getting some of the newer improvements while avoiding most of the instability.

What is the status of blendercam ?

I have used AutoCAD V13, Catia V4 and V5, Inventor, and Onshape in the past. I have been using Freecad for a while now. For simple stuff I find it just as good as any CAD program, once you become more rigorous with your use of reference plans rather then sketching on existing geometry.

With the castings I am drawing up for my antique motorbike engine project, where everything has draft angles and fillets,  I am definitely hitting the limits of it's filleting engine. I normally end up deleting my extrudes, and fillets multiple times, and changing the order I do things, and sometimes find an order which leads to most of the fillets I need. Luckily the time consuming part is the sketches, so there is not too much pain involved in backing up on extrudes and fillets, as the sketches get reused.

There is some issue with MacOS's latest release 15.4 which breaks access to numpy, which the CAM workbench needs. There is a workaround which works for some, but didn't for me.
forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?p=824067#p824067.

freecad seems to be under very active development.

Slight correction: Apparently the FreeCAD-bundle repo is being phased out, weekly builds are moving to releases in the main repo: github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases

And yes, stuff is regularly improving in FreeCAD.