CAD Intergration

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How do you intergrate CAD more into the design process? Currently in the team I am on despite having a dedicated cad team (3-6 people) we can never seem to CAD before the build team actually builds. In a few situations, it ends up we have a design and the build team takes some inspiration from it, rarely do we design something that the build team actually uses, and most of the time we end up cadding after they build. I think I have come up with a list of problems:
1. How do we divide the CAD work up? It seems like a few of us do all the cadding and then put it together. How do we divide the work up more evenly so the work gets done faster and more efficiently?
2. How do we work with the build team more? Currently, the build team is not very interested in what we are doing and spends a lot of time prototyping on their own. How do we get them more involved in what we're doing?
3. How do we get ready for the season? Is there any precadding the team can do to get ready?
4. And to a much lesser extent, how do we get acess to CNC machines? I feel that if we're able to have use of those machines, mechanical will pay attention to us more.
edited for adding a new question.