Looking for the impossible? A cnc router for 1k? is it possible?

[Swarfing]

Lee does this mean that all post must now run with 10mm pitch screws and run at a thousand miles an hour?

[Jonathan]

Just to add,cost of the machine is one part of the equation, software is the other.

There are sufficient pieces of free software for most things. Two extremes are the free edition of CAMbam, which will only do 2.5D and CNCtoolkit which does anything up to 6-axis for nothing...

CAD sotware, used Sketchup for a while for other use

Can't really help on CAD software as I just use what I got from school, 2D Design V2. It's very user friendly and can draw pretty much anything in 2D, but I don't think you can buy it outside of education.
Just look for one that you export files as a DXF.