[Madison]

I design as much as I reasonably can in the time I have available. Usually, I'm able to take care of fit and function for major assemblies and parts and create accurate drawings for parts that require milling or laser cutting. Beyond that, though, we still use paper drawings to quickly communicate requirements and intent. In a lot of cases, I make paper drawings of parts I've modeled since it goes faster, but sometimes we'll develop parts on the fly and I add them to the CAD model later.

If we had a more efficient manufacturing process in place, we'd assuredly rely more on CAD models than we do even now. But, because most of our machine is made from laser cut parts, or with a drill press and saw, I can get away with being lazy.

In fact, so far this year, we've not used our milling machine for anything at all.