Last September I had the opportunity to attend the launch of Solidworks 2013 and see a few things coming down the pipe. One thing that throughly impressed me was their augmented reality app for mobile devices or tablets. Presented by one of the original developers of eDrawings, Rick Chin, the... read more →
Feb
15
Feb
13
Admit it, it's every Engineer's favourite view. Orthographic? Isometric? Transparent? Nah.. Exploded is best. Every part in the air, arranged perfectly so one can see how even the hidden pieces work together. What a surprise - GrabCADrs have uploaded lots of great work with this specific rendering as well. So... read more →
Feb
12
The future is a difficult thing to predict - unless your obsession is cars and you're an Engineer or Designer. You'll likely be making these very vehicles a reality! But one thing that was hard to predict was which one would be the winner. According to Bre Pettis, CEO of Makerbot.... read more →
Feb
11
Three things get me excited every day at GrabCAD: Our Members. Their creativity and passion for design and building physical products is contagious. Our Product. Building a quality product for the manufacturing industry and engineers is so rewarding. Our Team. People make a company. All 36 people in US, UK and Estonia bring their... read more →
Feb
11
This here is The Cavator, a futuristic vision of your standard Evacuator and the 2nd place winner in Polish regional Solidworks Design competition organized by CNS Solutions (all winners can be seen here) Created by GrabCADr Mariusz Jablonski, it does away with the single arm and replaces it with two in order... read more →
Feb
09
If you're a professional Designer or Engineer, GrabCAD Workbench Beta is for you. GrabCADr Extraordinaire Tommy Mueller has been a tremendous asset to us by actively working with actual clients to bring their products to market quicker than before. Like what you see below, the first phase of creation of a... read more →
Feb
07
Pure gas means pure power which means pure speed from A-to-B. BioConsult has been developing better and better filtration systems (like de-watering systems seen below) and need your help in creating the perfect filter housing. Usually air bubbles are caught and can coalesce to form an 'air pillow' that disrupts... read more →
Feb
07
We have a soft spot for Steampunk. Who doesn't want to combine the wonders of the steam-age with the present day World? Today all the interesting mechanisms of anything mechanical or useful machines are hidden behind injection moulded plastic. Back then, everything was bared for everyone to see (and fix).... read more →
Feb
06
3D Laser-scanning just got a whole lot cheaper. California-based startup Matterport plans to release their own scanner soon, having raised $4 million in investment to manufacture and sell an inexpensive and easy-to-use scanner (priced at around the cost of a nice SLR camera). Based off the same sensor technology that... read more →
