A few drawbacks of all-in-one software...
so you have an salesman/estimator, a draftsman, and a programmer/operator, who are all specialized in their fields. You replace that with a software which can only be as strong as it is programmed and is usually very limited or very time consuming. This is fine if you are producing very simple jobs with little variance.
Is that why you bought a CNC? Didn't you get one to open up doors to more complex jobs? cant you produce these very simple jobs with a saw and a few jigs maybe an outdated horizontal boring machine? after 30k for software and 100k for a machine (on the low end) PLUS who knows how much time and money spent "learning" how the software wants you to use it. Sheets wasted on screw ups. time spent designing "library cabinets" in 3d so you have a rendering for a client who is probably a designer and has made their own drawings in some other software.
I am speaking in general terms here, but I think I have made my point. A cnc is only as strong as the cam software you use. A "jack of all trades:" software is going to set limits on what you can produce, or how efficiently/effectively you do it. If you want to open doors you will have to get a more powerful and expensive software.
I work in a millwork shop where I do things from signage to giant canopies to stairs, doors,and solid wood furniture. Yes I also produce boxes. The boxes Are the least time consuming thing. I have my own cabinet library in autocad and it takes me a few minutes to modify existing cabinets. It takes me one minute to program a sheet of cabinet parts and I do that while the machine is running. I can program 20 sheets while the first few are running and then move on to doweling and edge banding for the rest of the job. I can use my offcuts and after 5 years and thousands of sheets of black melamine I have under 20 offcuts. If a part is messed up I can throw it on another sheet and reprogram it or put it on an offcut or a new sheet in a few minutes.
I can program in 3d, I can program c-axis, I can program engraving and reliefs. I can cut brass, copper, aluminum, plastic, foams, solid wood, and sheet goods. There are zero limits to what I can do and that is because I use the most powerful cam software in the business.
I can easily go from cutting boxes to making jigs and templates from autocad drawings. I can make fixtures fast and efficiently. I can easy draw a new profiled tool, load it into mastercam, and verify a tool path with that profile.
Not every shop is as demanding as the one I work in and I can understand that, but it all starts with capability.
end rant.