for those of us who need to make parts but don't have leet friends there is
http://emachineshop.com/ .
Their software is okay and their prices are a lot less than what I worked out with local places and you won't need autocad or have to hash it out with ther machinists on limits because their cad software is designed to have a good correspondence with their toolchain.
I designed this crap with their stuff, havn't had it made as it turned out that a pick and place approach made this part irrelevant.
Sorry if this post comes off like a spam, its not intended. I just think this place has some good deals and some easy to use software if you need to make a specific part for a machine.
