We’ve recently made a few changes to the profile section on GrabCAD in hopes of making it easier for our Community members to show off their best work, see who follows who, update their profiles, and more! This redesign allows your profile to not just be a profile, but a professional and social portfolio. Here are some of the best new features:
Metal 3D Printing is undoubtedly the next big thing in the fast-moving realm of 3D printing.
Put simply, it’s a quick and effective process used to create three-dimensional metal parts from a digital file. Using 3D CAD technology, metal 3D printing techniques use binders, lasers and heated nozzles to create products that are robust and boast intricate internal features (channels, undercuts, inner tubes, internal voids). Components that wouldn’t have been imaginable a few years ago are now a reality due to the various industrial applications available for metal 3D printing today.
It's that time again where we show off some of our favorite CAD models recently added to the GrabCAD Community Library. Here's what we picked out this week:
Jenni Stuart is a Boston-based jeweler who specializes in high-end fabrication and custom fine jewelry design. All of her pieces are uniquely original, and meticulously crafted – mostly by hand, but Jenni also started using CAD a few years ago to help speed her design process.
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.
We thought it would be fun to ask a few of the more active members of the GrabCAD Community to share some of their favorite models with us. This week we picked FredSWUG, a CAD expert who first joined the GrabCAD Community in 2013 and whose models have been downloaded over 13,000 times, pick out some of his favorite models from the Library, who tells us why he selected the models that he did.
The world of 3D printing is constantly evolving and expanding, and one area in which we are seeing a technological renaissance of sorts is the footwear realm. 3D printing technology has now enabled product customization of sneakers, not only with regard to aesthetics but with the aim of physically helping people. Sneakers can now be printed and tailored to a runner’s biometrics or to the individual’s low or high foot arches.
GrabCAD is a Community where members come together to share ideas, inspiration and, probably above all, their favorite CAD models online.
Enes Hodzic holds a degree in mechanical engineering. He currently works as a mechanical project engineer at Galvatech in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has been a member of the GrabCAD Community since May of 2016.