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Originally Posted by asid61

Can CAM do this for you or do you have to put in all the radii manually?
What size endmill would you normally use as a minimum for something like this?

You should just use the fillet tool in solidworks/inventor/whatever and add .010+ to the nominal radius when you create the fillets.

I dislike using anything less than 1/4" diameter in 1/4" plate. with 1/4" cutter diameter you can go full depth (with a reasonably rigid machine and good chip evacuation). 3/16" and smaller won't allow you to do that.