Lee Cronin, a Professor at the University of Glasgow spoke at TEDGlobal about his work on 3D printed 'reactionware'. These specially CAD-crafted containers are designed to induce specific chemical reactions, by the interior shape and number of cavities, channels and size. Tailoring the architecture of these reactor wares means totally... read more →
Jun
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Jun
27
This was a difficult challenge for everyone involved with a tough and unfamiliar design problem. It worked out in the end - we had 67 entries. Of these, we chose 5 winners. Congrats to Marcin Otreba, Grant Griffin, Joshua Shepherd, Patrick Hughes and Ramses Chavez! (more…)
Jun
26
This was a fun challenge. How appropriate that a social network like GrabCAD gets to work on designing a bracelet that augments ... social networking? Completely appropriate. Sean Eliseev, Director of Torvare and developer of the Amico Bracelet was blown away by the end results. 105 entries. None of them... read more →
Jun
26
Tobias Mattsson has been one of GrabCAD’s most helpful engineers, answering questions, sharing reference models for competitions and rendering everything he happens to see. In short, legendary. We managed to have a nice long chat about Tobias's work and his thoughts and experiences with GrabCAD. (more…)
Jun
22
Best practices for teaching design and manufacturing? MIT's department of mechanical engineering believes in hands-on learning. The top engineering undergraduates must sketch, model and manufacture a robot and then compete for prizes (and glory) at the end of the semester. This year, Professor James Frey kicked off the class (called... read more →
Jun
20
It's been said that invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, and there was no better place to find it than this GrabCAD challenge! All the winners here worked hard to design something useful and 3d printable, complete with user manual - so a big handclap to the submitters! But... read more →
Jun
20
Shaun Johnson of Boston Startup School approached Hardi, our CEO at GrabCAD, with a problem. "We need a trophy to present in less then a week, and we don't have a design yet." GrabCAD had never launched such a short challenge -- Was our community up for the challenge? The... read more →
Jun
19
That's right! Figulo loved how well the last challenge went in March that they decided to run the Figulo Ceramic Challenge. It's not going to be anything like our last challenge. Users must come up with either a vase, a table lamp or a candle holder, with $500 going to the... read more →
Jun
19
// Chemical reactor by GrabCAD engineer Flaviano Crespi Porsche flat 6 gt2 by GarbCAD engineer Jeff Lord Wall-E by GrabCAD engineer Luis Ricardo (more…)
