We're talking 1000's of parts.
Some of the techniques I've come accross have been tumbling a batch in a basket under near cryogenic temperature, blasting with a softer material... Something that would lead to the thin flash breaking off, but not the thicker regions.
My company is using a Chinese manufacturer to produce the small polycarbonate parts we use in our prototype mechanical devices.
The parts are intended to work closely with each other, where tolerances in the micrometer range are important.
The production quality parts made by the our...