Chris I think a lot of your answer will depend on your experience with cad in general and with Rhino in particular. I am in much the same boat and am at a point that it is not profitable for me to make my own models.......and I think my stuff is much simpler than what you are wanting to do. I have about 2 good years of "self-teaching" on Rhino and I simply cannot practice on Rhino, model my parts, cam the program, make the parts etc and etc....and any of it justice. My problem boils down to money. I have so many parts I need models from that I could easily spend $30,000 just on additional programing. I don't really have $300 to spend but my intention is do one project at a time.
I have email enquiries from around 30-40 potential customers for one product. As soon as I can scrape the $$ together I'm going to have that model made and then use some of the income from it to finance the next and on down the line. I will be better off running my cnc machine 8 hrs a day than spending 6 hrs in front of the pc to make a model, only to find I did it wrong! Been there....done that.
Mike
ps I don't know if Brian is affilated with the company that posted in the product announcements or the employment forum but if he is.....they are good folks. If not.....that doesn't mean he isn't good folk too!
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