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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
We don't have any mentors with current CAD experience. Our main mentor has a lot of paper drafting experience and experience with older versions of Autocad.
Our waterjet sponsor is pretty awesome. He has a pretty crazy machine at his place from what I hear. Is there anyway to make them easier?
I have also been helping him convert .STEP files into .dwg files for cutting. Apparently thats a big problem for him, and with solidworks it only takes a minute.
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Try to minimize tool time and material usage.
A good way to minimize tool time is to cut down on the length of the tool paths.
For example, those fancy belly pans (a la 254) takes up a lot of time that could be used to cut many other parts
As in material usage, I would try to minimize the parts that have are awkward in geometry. Your sponsor would probably like to pack as many parts on a given area of sheet.