eMachineShop

// October 29th, 2005 // Technology Bits

Cliff pointed me at eMachineShop months ago. I’ve been patiently waiting for him to blog it so I wouldn’t steal his thunder.

Anyway, they have downloadable CAD software that you can use to mock up any part you want. Then you can instantly get a price on what it would cost to get any number of those parts manufactured. Prices drop substantially if you large quantities.

Having worked next to the engineers at Ruger Pine Tree Castings for a couple years doing computer support, I have a reasonabe understanding of how complex their jobs were. I am amazed this company can run a real machine shop, do engineering, casting, etc for parts on a potentially one off basis. I would be curious what the quality of their merchandise is.

To me this appears to be a great example of a company using long tail as their business plan in an area that was previously reserved for large companies with big clients ordering lots of parts.

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6 Responses to “eMachineShop”

  1. NoSheep! » Design Your Own PCB says:
    November 10, 2005 at 9:03 pm

    [...] Alan recently pointed me at Pad2Pad in response to my article about eMachineShop. [...]

  2. raj says:
    January 21, 2008 at 2:53 am

    i want to have business for machining of components

    raj

  3. raj says:
    January 21, 2008 at 2:54 am

    any one can contact me

  4. eko says:
    May 1, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    raj what can u make

  5. Bob McDougall says:
    November 13, 2008 at 1:49 am

    I’ve been using the eMachineShop software for a few weeks now, but I’ve decided not to stay with it. Why? Simply because some of the features shown on the menus and toolbars simply do not work at all, and when this was pointed out to their support group, their response was basically, “you’re right, that function doesn’t work, but we’re not going to fix it, nor will we list it as a known issue.” It’s too bad.. the program is otherwise quite useful and easy to work with.

  6. Fremond says:
    December 16, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    There’s no reason to use emachineshops free cad software if you can use solidworks or autocad. Also I don’t like built-in quotating function. Their prices are too high for me, delivery is very slow. I prefer design with solidworks then send to other online machineshops (iitmetalfab, quickparts or machinepier etc.). iitmetalfab is very fast, sometimes they can delivery in 24 hours. quickparts is good at quick prototyping process like SLA, SLS etc. machinepier offers very good quality and the price seems to be the lowest, but the just can’t delivery anything less than 3 days.

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