I visited Italy several times as a young child and was fascinated by the Italian technique of paper marbling. I begged my parents to buy me the marbled-paper-covered notebooks and pencils sold in Italian stationery stores.
There’s no need to “dumb” your CAD files down to an STL format any longer if you’re a 3D printer user.
Building upon GrabCAD Print’s ability to read CAD files natively, our new Advanced FDM feature enables fine level control over how FDM parts are manufactured. Advanced FDM enables highly customized control of part builds by simplifying the process and eliminating the need for highly skilled application engineers to build high-quality parts.
As you know, we recently launched GrabCAD Voxel Print, an innovative and groundbreaking way to digitally design and fabricate more complex composite materials on the Stratasys J750 PolyJet printer. We had help in creating this feature rich software enhancement from the rapid prototyping group at LAIKA, the production house that brought us the creative works of Coraline, Kubo and the Two Strings, Boxtrolls, and many other wonderful animated film productions.
After its acquisition, the GrabCAD team took on a new challenge: to develop software that could streamline and simplify 3D printing for Stratasys printers.
Evan Hochstein is a passionate STEM education supporter and long time FIRST Tech Challenge team mentor, volunteer, and alum. He currently works with the Applications Engineering Lab at the North American Headquarters of Stratasys located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Most weekends, you will find Evan working with FIRST teams or trying out a new 3D print on one of Stratasys’ PolyJet or FDM technologies.
Spencer Wright is a designer and writer based in New York City. His work on metal 3D printing has been widely shared throughout the industry, including on the GrabCAD blog. He also writes a weekly manufacturing newsletter called The Prepared and works on research & integrations at nTopology.
It’s been a little less than a year since GrabCAD Print launched in November of 2016. With our monthly update schedule, we’ve now made 10 rounds of enhancements to the software to improve your 3D printing experience. All these improvements were based on feedback from our customers.
Here at GrabCAD, we love talking with members who are doing extraordinary 3D printing things to hear more about their projects and the benefits they have found using the GrabCAD suite of products.
As an 18-year-old senior in high school planning to study business in college in the fall, you would think I’d have no connection with engineering whatsoever. It’s true, I really don’t, but with an eye in business, I see great potential for the 3D printing industry. As 3D print technology becomes more accessible to people of all skillsets, it wouldn’t surprise me if the technology changed the way we build and innovate in the future.