] 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.

For years I've had to put off projects because while I had access to a rather complete wood shop, and didn't have access to a metal working machine shop. Nice to technology filling this niche.

Internet machine shop offers custom tooling