Wheels are the predominant way to get around in the World according to GrabCAD. Wings are a common way too. But walking? Believe it or not lots of Engineers and Designers have been putting a lot of effort into designing machines that can walk, like you or I, from point... read more →
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Nov
17
Everyone has ideas. A better this, a better that, the idea being that there is a need, and that people's lives are better when it's fulfilled. But Making your idea a reality is not terribly easy. Whatever product it is, it has to be cheap to make, reliable, easy-to-use and... read more →
Nov
16
Remember earlier this week when we wrote about GrabCADr Greg and his CNC machine. Well he just sent us another piece he just made. Behold! Mathematics, incarnate! It's really quite beautiful - a single drop in a slug of wood. I was tinkering with another Solidworks milling project that I cut... read more →
Nov
15
Before you can make a single car, a single part, a single anything, you need the right tools. No I'm not talking about GrabCAD. I'm talking about Powertools. A CAD model of a powertool isn't much use when you need to drill a hole into something in the physical world.... read more →
Nov
13
The sanctions between Iran and the rest of the World over Iran's alleged Nuclear weapons program have come into full effect. As a result, it is illegal for us to send prize-money to anyone in Iran, a fact that we find pretty unfortunate. But instead of letting it go to... read more →
Nov
12
If you're an Architect, an Industrial Designer or a Mechanical Engineer, you're heard of Red Dot Design Awards. If you've handled an iPad, or a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Coupé, you've interacted with a Red Dot winner. Every year since 1955, Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany has received tens of thousands of... read more →
Nov
10
More and more often, Engineers are ushering in GrabCAD models into the physical world. Greg downloaded a copy of a P51 by GrabCADr Sorin and CNC machined it out of a block of wood (read about the P51 here). What was simply a long set of codes, voxels and compression algorithms... read more →
Nov
09
Hi, this is the first time you have heard from me and I’d like to say thanks for welcoming me to the GrabCAD community. I’ve been a full time member of the GrabCAD team for a couple of months now and it has already been a tremendously exciting ride. I... read more →
