On Mon, 5 May 2008, steve wrote: > I looked at emachines a few years back for doing some custom car parts. The > CAD tool was a bit funky. The price was not hobby friendly as you note. > My friend owned a machine shop so he just CNCed the thing since he wanted it > too. I never tried a plastic part with emachine, but its all about the set > up cost and the tool you use. material is immaterial ( or should be)
The material (between metal and plastic, anyway) greatly affects your tool choices, and there are big differences on whether the cost is dominated by set-up costs or per-unit costs. If you want just one of something, I think the "rapid prototype" process for an ABS plastic part is way cheaper than anything that you can get for metal. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community