Call Ross Goble at DES in North Carolina.
My competition that uses auto cad, alpha cam does fine.
I only know what I know works, as I use it day in and out.
There is a lot of misinformation out there so get a system in place that works for you. We still use tons of clamps and da’s. We use a belt sander to level out grossly misaligned work, but the point is not to go there in the first place
I would say your biggest conquest is the cutter and there are a lot of suppliers that can help.
We reintroduce tops into the machine after glue up and that is a game changer to say the least. A hydraulic chuck keeps the cutter true enough to avoid a wobly descent destroying your edge.
If I were to do it all over again, I would have hired a consultant and cut the learning curve.
We just started digital templates and that is going well.
Just remember cutting is one aspect.
In our approach to cut saw time, and loose parts being thrown, i onion skin the edge and route it apart with a bevel trim bit in a hand router. We cut it face up. The “Corian canyons” are rarely flat on the back as much as the face, so this strategy has to change when it comes to how we approach it