Ever heard of General Electric? It’s one of the largest companies in the world. Chances are there’s a few things around your house designed and manufactured by GE, and now you have the chance to design a GE product of your own.
It’s been over a month since we first announced the challenge to create a set of glasses that display closed-captioning for a movie, and the results have been overwhelming! All twenty-eight entries we received were amazing, and when it came time to pick ten finalists, we chose them based on creativity, design, and the use of an app (powered by WiFi/Bluetooth technology) to transmit captions to the glasses.
We’ve now ranked these ten finalists based on which are most parallel to our vision, and we’re now thrilled to announce the challenge winners! Read the rest of this entry »
If you participate in a “digital” design and manufacturing process you are probably sharing or receiving product data in digital form – usually a CAD file. Physical products seldom consist of a single part and are rarely designed and made by a single individual. Engineering is a team sport.
However, sharing CAD files often means translating the file or converting CAD and its contents from one format to another. Why? Read the rest of this entry »
Crowdsourcing. It’s a hot topic right now thanks to developments in technology. Before, there were barriers to asking a large group for input and ideas. Now, these barriers are quickly falling away. The Internet is always on, which makes it faster and easier to connect the world’s talent. Books like Makers and Decisive are bringing the practice of open and cooperative design and decision processes to the mainstream. Below are some different examples of companies using crowdsourcing in new and interesting ways.
Search and mentions of “crowdsource” have sky rocketed as interest grows. Read the rest of this entry »
Get inspired to create new, inventive bike accessories for the Velodroom product line! Their current lighting system, watch this video, is smart and practical, they start when you start and stop when you stop. They rear light even turns on when you brake. What would you create in Velodroom style for the daily bike commuter?
We are happy to share that we have paired up with Nokia to give our Community the chance to dream up some cool accessories for the Lumia 820. They are brainstorming what they could create to take advantage of their new wireless charging system and need your help. What do you imagine?
Here at GrabCAD, we want to fight the status quo of the manufacturing industry. We see how technology has driven innovation in industries like IT, travel,and e-commerce. This kind of disruption is desperately needed for the people in our Community, engineers and designers who develop and make the physical products that we all use in our everyday lives.
Some people tell us that the tools engineers use today are ok and that they get the job done. These folks do get one thing right. Engineers are amazing people! They never complain and always find a brilliant workaround to complete a design. This is one of the reasons why I am, personally, so passionate about improving engineers’ lives.
Despite their ingenious ability to make “just okay” tools functional, okay is not good enough. Read the rest of this entry »
