Your first description is not CNC. The tracer type machines have been around
for a very long time..

"Steve B" wrote in message
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What is the price range for CNC routing? I mean the type of routing that
is
done by a sensor that touches/reads the pattern, then transfers it to wood
and carves out what it senses. Or that follows a CAD type program. Are
there any pantogram types of apparatuses that do this manually rather than
by CNC?

Thanks

Steve