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I personally pretty much abandoned manual milling. Takes me no longer than a minute to make a simple shape in CamBam and output the G-code file.

Same here. I also find find that the Mach3 wizards let you quickly set up many jobs that would normally be done manually.

Still once in a while I run into something, mostly when modifying or repairing something. Just the other day I had to widen a clearance slot in a part for a bolt head - clamped the part in the vise, quickly zeroed it in. and then used the pendant to manually control the cut. The whole process didn't take more than a couple minutes.