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Not explicitly stated anywhere on the page, so let's be clear - this will only do 2 layer PCBs (top/bottom copper), correct? Also, what can it do without any "addons"? It looks like an addon is needed to do anything useful (etching, drilling, pick&place). What am I missing?

I reckon anyone willing to spend ~€3000 on hardware will be designing significantly more complicated PCBs than this will be capable of making.

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It doesn't do plating for vias so it's less of a two layer board and more of two 1 layer boards sharing a piece of FR4.

You are not missing anything that I see. They allow it to be as expensive as the person's needs requires it to be.

However, I spent less than this machine's total cost on a bench top CNC machine that has a larger work area and can be easily adapted to do this functionality. I just have to swap the spindle out for the correct attachment.

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