Yet again, we had an awesome Design Challenge for the GrabCAD Community to design and deliver their best work! This time the 500 Group needed everyone to develop a new dash for their Supercar, seen here on rocking the Nürburgring and destroying the competition. Now that the Challenge is over,... read more →
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Few weeks ago I had a wonderful opportunity to take some time off of my everyday job in GrabCAD and pick up my backpacks for a little adventure with my two companions. I’ve always wanted to go to India to discover its rich culture, religions and different landscapes. Not to... read more →
Jan
24
This is an open invitation to the GrabCAD Community in the greater Boston area to come by our office and discuss all things CAD, open engineering and of course, community. Come by, have some light refreshments and meet the team. This meetup we will focus on discussing quality CAD -... read more →
Jan
24
Layered Labs is a new 3D Printing company that aims to crowdsource a basic design for a 3D Printer. The greatest tool for the Engineer and the Designer since the Computer, the GrabCAD Community will have a chance at modelling the appropriate concept. However, there are a few constraints -... read more →
Jan
23
Today a new space-exploration group, Deep Space Industries, announced in Los Angeles that they intend to capture an asteroid and mine it for valuable resources. This is not the stuff of Science-fiction, but of Science-fact. The keystone of this entire venture is fabrication in Space rather than on-the-ground. DSI has... read more →
Jan
22
In an unusual twist, we've teamed up with 3D Scanning, Measuring and Engineering firm Creaform to ask all 400,000 GrabCADrs to come up with a challenge project for them. Yes - the hard work is for Creaform, not you! The ideation, or creating an idea, is your job. Last year's... read more →
Jan
21
CATIA has been around for longer than most of the GrabCAD Community has been alive. Originally developed internally to assist French engineers design, manage and manufacture the Dassault Mirage in 1977, it's now widely used to conceptualize, engineer or machine products, planes, cars - you name it. So it comes... read more →
Jan
20
Iruba Innovations out of Kronach, Germany has developed a unique solution to a difficult milling problem. Creating 'fir-tree' gear profiles and turbine blade-roots is remarkably difficult, requiring multiple toolsets to create a particular shape. But then you see a picture like this..... ....and wonder how they did it. First check... read more →
Jan
19
Telecommunications giant Nokia just released today that they are releasing a few of the CAD files for their new Lumia 820, free of charge. With a good 3D printer, or even a CNC machine, it's possible for any GrabCADr to download, redesign or remix the case, fab and then reattach.... read more →
