Instantly design, price and order your custom parts online!

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

eMachineShop is the remarkable new way to get the custom parts you need - the first true online alternative to a machine shop. Download our free software, choose a machine or process, draw your part, and click to order - it's easy! Your parts will be machined and delivered - at low cost.

Why waste time traveling, calling, faxing or emailing to conventional machine shops - and waiting days for quotations? Reduce your total time up to 90%! Open doors to new products and projects, to inventing new things, to reducing the cost of parts and more. Quantity 1 to 1,000,000. Look what we can do for you! eMachineShop's FREE Intelligent design software gives instant exact pricing, expert feedback, and unrivaled convenience.

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Its fairly expensive actually for most things. But I guess it is cheaper than going to a machine shop.

 

Of course it cost money but you get to skip so many steps.

How many machine shops give you free software to design your own part?

Most wanna charge you for that part too.

Even hire someone to draft up drawings for parts?
That what stops most stuff.


All machine work cost, them folks get paid mucho buck per hr and use million dollar machines....... stuff ain't cheap. But if you can skip the inital cost and just get the parts made............

 

Yeah like I said, its probably cheaper than a machine shop. I laid out a template for my buddies gaguge cluster that I made for him and for a simple piece of sheet with 3 holes in it was a lot of money. I know Dean has priced some stuf out from there too. If you can get a few people to go in and buy what you want to build the price becomes more reasonable as you can divide up the initial set up cost.
Im not saying I want stuff for free, but it isnt "cheap"

 

It's great if you make a design that over 100 people will buy, the more pieces the lower the price gets.

 

visit the video how to page

http://www.emachineshop.com/audio/index.htm

like the first general bracket video is here

http://www.emachineshop.com/audio/01-bracket/video.html

change it to video.swf and you can then download it. Though rename it so you member as everyone one is named video.swf

Makes it allt oeasier when on dial up, plus your down using up their bandwith all the time.

The movies show allot and are great.
Program is kinda like old PSP real simple to use.
Plans it spits out can be taken anywhere not just there.

 

I used them when I needed the aluminum spacers for the LS1 rear brake conversion on my 9 bolt. They are a little pricey but it was fun drawing up my own part, e-mailing the drawing, and 2 weeks later bolting them on for a perfect fit.

 

I was going to use them to make me some custom tone rings when I was going to do ABS in my 87 LS1 swap. Price was reasonable. Very reasonable if I would have gotten like 10 guys on board to order some more...

Justin

 

Kind of expensive. Drew up a couple flanges and was a bit shocked at what they wanted. I've had some work done locally and so far the only issue has been getting the shop to make one offs, they like to make multiples. I'd do it myself but I cant flat mill accurately enough for what I want to make right now.

I have cad so drawing the stuff up is no issue for me at all, and the software they have is... frustrating. But, its free.

 

If you've got no experience in machining or mechanical design, the software is useful in that it has a better idea of what the various machining operations can accomplish than you do. If you do have CAD experience though, then its frustrating that it doesn't work the way that you expect.

If you're looking to make a part that needs CNC work, then it's usually the drawing and tooling that's expensive. Their prices might be comparable to getting something done locally then. If you're looking for something simpler that could be done manually, then you might be better off finding someone local who can work from a sketch.

 

Amen to that. I was pulling my hair ou trying to draw a tone ring. I wanted polar array so bad!!!

Anyway, if you are making something, and plan to sell it, and you order a higher qty, its actually pretty cheap. I think the tone rings that I had drawn up were like 100 for a pair of them. But once I said I wanted 10 of them, it was only 55 a pair or something.

The other nice thing is, there arent many machine shops around here that have good machines for making quality parts. So its a great option for those of us with out a local shop that is willing to help.

J.

 

I have used them twice in the past. They have now gotten more expensive. Fortunately for me, I now have access and am learning to use a friends $50,000 CNC milling machine in his garage. Oh whAT FUN!!!! This opens a whole new realm for me. It may take me a good years time to get proficiant at it but in spare time I will be learning it and how to program and load files.My next project is billet aluminum center caps for my IROC wheels.Dean