"okay", I will tick someone off here with this comment but lets be real for a second. It takes months to learn the in-outs of scanning and designing, and to say different means the truth isn't in you. Then once you learn that, you have to learn the milling software, add in those variables with the machine itself and it could be a full year where everything is running smoothly like you want. If I were just starting, I'd get a scanner, take the months to learn that, then once you have that down, feel comfortable, then reaccess into the milling side of it and what you want to mill. It's one thing to say have passion, own what you do, but until that person pays my payroll, will I give them a seat at my board table. Being smart is owning what you do, and leave the passion for the bedroom