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Originally Posted by frcguy

Also, as far as CAM goes, we're probably going to have the design team pass the part to be machined to fabrication and then they make and generate the CAM. We're also having all of our fabrication team become moderately proficient in SolidWorks as well.

This is the method we use. One thing we did this season was to have the student that was going to machine the part sit down with the designer and check the part for machinabilty and fix stuff before they send over the model. They caught a lot of small issues which in the end saved time.