# need a custom part?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-a-custom-part/168657
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [August 27, 2004, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-a-custom-part/168657 "2004-08-27T06:25:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Black\_WS6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Black_WS6)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2004, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-a-custom-part/168657/1 "2004-08-27T06:25:19Z")
> **[CNC Manufacturing, Prototyping, Fast Quotes & Free CAD | eMachineShop](https://www.emachineshop.com/)**
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You design the part, they make it and ship it to you. Pretty cool.
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### Author:  [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-a-custom-part/168657/2 "2004-08-27T06:33:13Z")
very cool.
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### Author:  [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2004, 8:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-a-custom-part/168657/3 "2004-08-27T08:31:38Z")
you can do that here on the Pitt campus…they have a machine shop…just fab up some cad schematics and they will do it
back when i was in the engineering school we used to use the program pro engineer on a unix box, and they could take stuff right from that and make it.
that was years ago, so i don’t know what they use now but they can probably help out.
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### Author:  [@silvrhand](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/silvrhand)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2004, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-a-custom-part/168657/4 "2004-08-27T08:34:52Z")
Pro/E is still very much alive and kicking, it’s what we use here for all the boards we engineer and produce…
> **[Global Leader in Product Lifecycle Management Software | PTC](https://www.ptc.com//)**
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> [@showtime](#):
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> you can do that here on the Pitt campus…they have a machine shop…just fab up some cad schematics and they will do it
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> back when i was in the engineering school we used to use the program pro engineer on a unix box, and they could take stuff right from that and make it.
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> that was years ago, so i don’t know what they use now but they can probably help out.
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### Author:  [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2004, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-a-custom-part/168657/5 "2004-08-27T08:44:40Z")
> [@silvrhand](#):
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> Pro/E is still very much alive and kicking, it’s what we use here for all the boards we engineer and produce…
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> [http://www.ptc.com](http://www.ptc.com)
Pro/E is a great program…after you learn the capability its a very powerful cad program…i spent may hours in the comp lab working with that program
…ahhhh the good ol days…
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### Author:  [@S10Blazed\_Si](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S10Blazed_Si)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2004, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-a-custom-part/168657/6 "2004-08-27T08:46:38Z")
Wow, thats awesome program. Do any of you guys still have access to a machining machine? I’ve had an idea to get something made and doing a real quick draw up in that program (the topic of this thread) it ended up being $91. I dunno if thats a lot or not for a custom machined emblem?? I used to have acess to a plastic milling machine in high school. maybe its time to give my old teacher a call.
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### Author:  [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-a-custom-part/168657/7 "2004-08-27T15:10:38Z")
I give PTC 5 years to stay in business if they don’t get their sales department straightened out - it’s like dealing with retards.
Also check out [www.extrudehone.com](http://www.extrudehone.com). They have a place in Irwin. Obviously they do honing by an extrusion process, but they also do 3D printing. It’s like a stereo lithography process, but with powdered metal instead of plastic, so the pieces are usable. The porosity of the powdered metal piece is filled with bronze to make it 99.x% solid, and it retains a high percentage of the mechanical properties. You can make pieces that are impossible to machine or cast. They did a presentation for our company and had a sample piece that was a meshed sphere with a little ball trapped inside - can’t machine that!
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### Author:  [@S10Blazed\_Si](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S10Blazed_Si)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2004, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-a-custom-part/168657/8 "2004-09-14T08:49:03Z")
did anyone actually try to use this program? It’s not real good for 3d work. I have my emblem all done in 2d plus the thickenss of the material (basically how it does 3d) and I need to add pegs to put through the holes. I dont see how to do that in this software.