DUDE!!! CNC machining, check it out.

[trains are bad]

Welcome to eMachineShop - where you can design, price, and order your custom parts online!

eMachineShop is the remarkable new way to get the custom parts you need. Download our free software, draw your part, and click to order - it's that easy! Your part will be machined and delivered. Even better, your cost is low due to the Internet, software, and automated machines.


Why waste time traveling, calling, faxing or emailing to conventional machine shops? Reduce your total time up to 90% and open doors to new products and projects. Intelligent design software gives instant exact pricing, expert feedback, and unrivaled convenience
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http://www.emachineshop.com

[RRfireblade]

Why did you post that here?

Try the Dealers forum if your looking for business.

[trains are bad]

You got the wrong idea

It's just something I found!

I'm not affiliated in any way, and frankly I want to know if it's for real i.e., I want someone who can afford it to give it a try! It looks cool to me.

I thought it might help someone out with a project.

[WickeDKlowN]

Sounds pretty cool. Someone should try it and see how good they are.

[Big'n slo]

I have the program and have fiddled with a couple of designs. The pricing isn't that bad for a large count order, but if its a one off piece its expensive.....

Just like anything else

[P8ntBallBoom]

That would be interesting to mess with if i had the time.

How complicated can the designs be?

[kapaintballman]

next project i start ill check them out and get them to make something for me

[Big'n slo]

That would be interesting to mess with if i had the time.

How complicated can the designs be?

From what I've done the designs can be fairly complicated. The interface seems to be setup more for 2D design but is capable of 3D. Takes a bit to figure out the program, especially if your used to a specific CAD program.

[_KFC_Chicken_]

From what I've done the designs can be fairly complicated. The interface seems to be setup more for 2D design but is capable of 3D. Takes a bit to figure out the program, especially if your used to a specific CAD program.

What if you have no experiance?

[SLICEnDICE]

My opinion

I personally would not deal with this shop. I have never dealt with them, but a shop that is not even willing to take CAD models from other well established programs like solidworks, pro/e or, UG is not even worth even dealing with. Any shop that is worth anything should be able to deal with any CAD file format including step and iges files. Every customer and vendor that I have worked with can send/recieve almost anyfile format and if they were not able to no one would get any work done.

my2cents

[Southparkrocks]

Someone on PBN posted this, and they said that they only worked for companies and stuff.

[Cristobal]

I think this could be a good deal for someone who needs a few simple parts and doesn't already have a CAD program. I also have to give them credit for providing an "instant" quote once you submit your drawing with their software. I just wonder how capable it is for more complex parts.

But for anybody else, I'm going to have to echo SLICEnDICE: if you've already invested in SolidWorks, Pro/E, AutoCAD, etc. you'll probably want someplace which will take your files natively. At least they allow you to import 2D .dxf. There are plenty of online machine shops where you can submit your drawing without needing you to learn and redraw your parts on their own proprietary software.

[Lurker27]

Theres a free program called millplus that translates dxd dwg and similar formats into programs for the machine. its freeware done by some guys from battlebots, but I'm heard that machining costs will go waaaay down if you know someone who will give you the time with the machine (off hours basically free) ...I'll try to find a link for you guys.

[Jack & Coke]

here's an article...

Design software comes with machine shop attached

By PETER SVENSSON -- AP Technology Writer



It's the Internet Revolution meets the Industrial Revolution: a new program that lets people design 3-D objects like car parts and door knobs in metal or plastic then order them online.

Programs for computer-aided design, or CAD, have been around for decades, but eMachineShop.com appears to be the first service that checks whether a design can be made, tells the customer how much it will cost. If the customer wants the item the design goes to a "real world" machine shop for manufacturing.

The key to this enterprise is free design software provided by eMachineShop that aims to be simple enough for hobbyists and other non-engineers.

Prices won't be competitive with Wal-Mart, but Wal-Mart won't make ten copper door knobs, then sandblast them for you. EmachineShop charges $143 for that.

The company was created by Jim Lewis, a programmer and self-professed "tinkerer." One previous credit: "the world's hardest sliding block puzzle."

Lewis' software company, Micrologic, designed eMachineShop and contracts with machine shops all over the world to do the manufacturing.

Even though the Midland Park, N.J., company, which has 19 employees, doesn't advertise, it has handled more than 1,000 orders for things like door signs, motorcycle seats, robot frames, car engine covers, guitar plates and camera parts.

The most expensive item it's sold since it began beta testing last year is a $4,011 aluminum, 26-inch diameter part for a high-powered laboratory magnet.

The customers range from large companies that make prototypes to hobbyists including Dennis J. Vegh of Mesa, Ariz., who had the company make metal parts for an airplane he's building after a 1929 design.

"I had to have the pieces made because they do not exist anywhere," Vegh said.

He found the software quick and easy to use. The quality of the finishing has varied a bit between orders, but has been acceptable, he said.

"Being able to sit at you home computer, draw up some parts, submit them and 30 days later they are on your doorstep, all without human contact, is mind-blowing," Vegh says...

Read the rest of the article here:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/TechNews/BizTech/2004/08/19/591202.html

[Jack & Coke]

I just submitted my first CAD drawing!





I hope they can make it...