Good machine, assembled and ready to use, comes complete with Mach3 software. This little machine has earned a positive review as I've worked the product hard and produced some amazing little carvings and components and am exceptionally pleased with the results. Tomorrow I will be making Wonder Woman her Valentines day card on a 200 x 200 x 19mm reclaimed Oak tile and that is the beauty of this machine in that it can produce wonderfully personalised gifts to loved ones, it can re-produce photographs onto wood or plastics, it can carve 2.5d plaques of text and pictures, it can carve 3d models if you ordered the chuck as well. You can do signwriting and be as functional or ornate as you choose to be. As a footnote: the item was delivered next day. Enjoy, in my retirement I am! thank you Mr Seller.