Yotatech- Just ran across a website the other day that blew me away, thought I might share. Check out emachineshop a short run down to tickle your fancy, they are a state of the art machine shop utilizing all of the modern CAD and CNC milling, lathes laser cutting etc. etc. the cool thing is that you can download a program from their site that allows you to design, draw, blueprint, and view in 3D any piece you can think of, and they will take your design and mill it anyway is necessary out of materials like stainless, aluminum, ABS, high density plastics and polystyrenes. I tried it out playing around and it sure floored me, I thought it was pretty cool. The program also automatically detects any design flaws structurally that may occur and corrects for them, then it will estimate the cost. I thought this would be great for something like a billet switch panel or hell you could even have your own spring spacers made. The only down side I see is that it is not real cheap, but is on par for the market as far as custom machined pieces would cost, the plus is that you design it yourself. So anyways just thought I'd share some of you has to find this useful. Check it out, play around with it a little. Good day!

Matt Rogers

 

Repost, but a worthy one It's been a couple of years since I saw that.

 

That is great, but seems like it'd be too expensive for shipping large plates of steel, which is what i need.

 

It is very exspensive for simple one off type type things, a simple 5" by 5" by .25" with two holes was $110 for one.

If you have a part that you need lots of, then it is reasonably priced.

 

Yeah thats about what I figured, but it was cool never the less kinda like engineering without the degree and years of school...kinda figured it might be a repost too but it lets some of the others who havent seen it find out about it.