Startup CNC shop

[Garage Dog 65]

Hi all,

I'm thinking about starting up a small cnc shop here at my home in Brownsburg IN. Brownsburg is quickly becoming the motorsports capitol and has recently grown rapidly with NHRA, INDY and sprint car equipment manufactures and teams.

I'm hoping some of you that have cnc shops and/or are employed at those shops could give me some basic info on a small foot print cnc workcenter, the types of CAD/CAM software you use and maybe some of the support equipment you need/use ? (I noticed in a cnc search of the forum that BadMatt, Kwhizz and Charley had some preferances on machines and such - could you share ?)

Any thoughts, help, guidance or links to other information will be greatly appreciated.

Thx, Jim !!!!