What are the necessary tools and equipment do you need to make a building? And can you find these on GrabCAD? Hell yes. If you're a professional Architect or a Structural Engineer creating a presentation for clients, it's nice to have a number of beautifully rendered images of your project... read more →
Mar
06
Mar
05
At first glance, this seems like an uninteresting challenge. We couldn't disagree more. Sunstar manufactures electric motors that can be attached directly to the crankshaft of a bike to power it. The problem is that they haven't perfected a fixture for the motor unit to be attached to any bike... read more →
Mar
04
Imagine taking home some new 'self-assembly' furniture. No, I'm not talking about an IKEA chair you assembled yourself. Rather, something that will slowly reconstruct itself. Although it takes out the fun part (or frustrating in the eyes of a few engineers that would say, 'I can make this better'), the... read more →
Mar
03
GrabCADr Luis Cordoba has become quite noticeable in the community as well as outside of GrabCAD, getting quite a lot of attention for his award-winning design for the Firanse R3. We’ve been talking lots about his work and how to make GrabCAD better, which warranted a little spotlight. (more…)
Mar
01
As we improve GrabCAD Workbench (known as Beta-tools and Teams) we've been working closely with beta-testers like GrabCADr Tommy Mueller. By putting our work through the motions we can figure out what we've missing and what we're doing right. Last month some 37 GrabCADrs donated time to create their own... read more →
Feb
28
Ah 3ds Max. It's better known as a tool for Game developers and CG artists, but 3ds Max is beloved by Aerospace Engineers, Architects and Product Designers as well. It's a bit of surprise, but there are lots of engineers using it and uploading their work on GrabCAD. So this... read more →
Feb
26
We experienced an outage with our uploader for 15 hours yesterday. It is now up and running again. First I want to apologize for our error, which caused a poor member experience for many. Some members were not able to upload at all yesterday, which is just not acceptable to us... read more →
Feb
26
In order to have the best CAD library out there, we need to know what quality means when it comes to CAD models. This is a tricky question and becomes even harder when you add open engineering to the equation. What qualities does an open source CAD model need to... read more →
Feb
25
Industrial Design Society of America challenges the GrabCAD community to redefine the use of colour in design. Take any model in the GrabCAD library and re-render it in a fresh and exciting way. It's not as easy it as it seems - our jury consists of the top designers and... read more →
