dilly -
First - Welcome aboard! This is probably the most friendly and helpful forum on the web!
Second - Some of the members here have CF experience - so you may be at just the right place! (If not check out werksberg - a lot of CF experience there -- google it)
Third --to your question -- If you can --flood the CF when cutting/milling. The slurry can be captured - but still a MESS. I have done some cutting, trimming, and basic machining of CF parts - and find the water flood works to keep the dust down. I may "hire-out" some water jet operations - when we get beyond prototyping and into manufacturing. Again another good approach to machinging CF.
Sorry, I have no links to offer on HEPA filteration/cyclone dust collection systems -- I believe they still keep the offensive dusts as an airborne particulate -- and not a satisfactory approach. You get one set of lungs -- keep 'em (I just -30 minutes ago- did an annual respirtory CT as a monitor -- consider getting a baseline before beginning CF work and an annual thereafter)
MASKS - Body suits -- and consider blown air filtered hoods.
Again best of lucK,
Cheers - Jim
Experience is the BEST Teacher. Is that why it usually arrives in a shower of sparks, flash of light, loud bang, a cloud of smoke, AND -- a BILL to pay? You usually get it -- just after you need it.