A hammer is better at putting nails into wood than a screwdriver is. Hobby CNC mills like the Xcarve or the shapeoko only have a 3"~ Z axis. That's on top of

A hammer is better at putting nails into wood than a screwdriver is. Hobby CNC mills like the Xcarve or the shapeoko only have a 3"~ Z axis. That's on top of the normal limits of carving out of a solid block of material vs printing from nothing. I don't disagree though. Much of what people demonstrate with a 3d printer would have come out better with a hobby CNC mill.