Has anyone made pasta with a kitchenaid mixer?!

The spaghetti and linguine turn out really good. The ravioli making attachment seems very complicated and unwieldy. It seems that making sheets of pasta (which is really easy to do with the roller attachment) and then laying it on the counter and stuffing the ravioli by hand would be much easier.
Also, the instruction booklet that comes with the roller attachment has a recipe for pasta. It tells how you should fold and roll out the pasta several times at the thickest setting, then gradually crank the rollers closer together, re-rolling the dough each time until it is the thickness you desire. To me, it seems that doing this made my dough very tough. Plus, I saw a chef on Guy Fieri's show (Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, Food Network) who makes ravioli every day, and he said to roll the dough only once at the thickest setting, then skipping a couple of settings before rolling it again, and rolling it only one time at each setting. He also said it is important not to stretch the dough as it comes out of the machine.
I'm going to try this method in a day or two, and see if the spaghetti (or ravioli sheets) come out more tender than before.
One thing for sure, with the KitchenAid pasta attachments it is certainly easier than making pasta by hand on the counter with a rolling pin and a pizza cutter!

Shildga, I have the Kitchenaid, and I also got the hand pasta machine. With the Kitchenaid if you have the right attachments it comes out just as good as the hand made. For instance for taligtalli, or lasagna you still have to keep adjusting the thickness setting. You don't go from a thick mass to a thin dough sheet.

I haven't but I had some and it was really good ,so I'm planning to purchase the attachment for it soon. i usually make pasta with the crank pasta maker , with the attachment to the Kitchenaid it will be much faster ,if you can purchase all the cutters that they make from spaghetti to ravioli.

yes I do it all the time.

Do you have the pasta cutter attachment? or are you going to cut yours by hand?

It works great!!! I have the attachment for mine to cut the pasta