TRENDWATCHING.COM: Taking it one step further is US-based eMachineshop.com, which lets ordinary consumers download free, easy-to-use software which they can use to design objects like car parts, door knobs, in metal or plastic. They can then get a quote, order the product online and eMachineshop will forward the design to a ‘real world’ machine shop for manufacturing. Suddenly, MINIPRENEURS have injection molding, milling, turning, laser cutting, waterjet cutting, wired EDM, tapping, bending, blanking, punching, plastic extrusion, thermoforming, and casting at their fingertips. Who’s going to set up local competitors to service MINIPRENEURS in Asia, Europe, South America?
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Only one BIG problem with this e-Machine Shop. They only want Microsoft customers as their customers.
So if you don’t have Windblows, you don’t get any software to design your parts. Machine screw them.