Comment by linsomniac

>If I haven't created it myself and yet still have an end product, how have I accomplished anything?

Maybe what you wanted to accomplish wasn't the dimensioning of lumber?

Achievements you can make by using CNC:

    - Learning feeds+speeds
    - Learning your CNC tooling.
    - Learning CAD+CAM.
    - Design of the result.
    - Maybe you are making tens of something.  Am I really achieving that much by making ~100 24"x4" pieces of plywood?
    - Maybe you want to design something that many people can manufacture.