there are a lot of people buying and using cnc's who don t have a clue of what theyve got in front of them a 10,000 dollar machine is a toy ,
the machine and the software is only as good as the guy using it period . we just went thru a hotshot mastercam programmer i was ready to kill , try explaining to some moron why you can t plunge a 3/4" endmill .5 deep into a 4140 $ 5000 part with tons of time thats been spent on it ,i can go into a huge rant over clowns who learn a piece of software that have never cut a chip in their life , people tend to think its a magic ,the magical software creates the magical toolpath and the magical metal eating box spits out a perfect part , nothing hard about that , hobby is one thing but a professional is a professional , which means finding the most optimal economical process of creating a good part , choice of tooling , forsight into future problems between operations ,tool breakage , chatter etc ,etc , and there is no piece of software that will give you that , we rarely have spare setup pieces it s done right the first time or your the idiot of the day if not longer ,
what really kills me is how people tend to minimalize the expertise it takes in this profession , you can have the best software the best tools the best machine , if you don t have the skill ,youve got JACK