The "Italics Award" Trophy Design Challenge was by far our fastest challenge. From start to finish it ran only one week, and wow did the community deliver - we received 58 submissions in only 3 days! First prize of $500 went to Onur Aytekin for his stand-out submission, the 'I-Trophy' Shawn commented,... read more →
Jun
10
Jun
08
Milling machine by GrabCAD engineer Benjamin This very impressive milling machine is detailed and complex. Renders or even an animation anyone? Torsen differential mechanism by GrabCAD engineer Sudhir Gill This is one awesome differential design mechanism! Mack by GrabCAD engineer Nemanja Petkov Very impressive and detailed big boy Mack rig. (more…)
Jun
07
The Krimelte Sealant Applicator Challenge was one of our most successful at GrabCAD. With such a large variety of unique designs, Krimelte's design problem was resolved. I had a chat with one of our jurors from Krimelte, Meelis Klimov, to talk about the challenge. (more…)
Jun
06
A professional engineering community deserves a professional 3D printer. And sometimes, peering at a model via renders or our 3D viewer doesn't cut it - we want to have the physical model of it. So GrabCAD is setting out on a quest to find the best 3D printer out there!... read more →
Jun
05
PlanetSolar, a solar powered catamaran, became the first ever solar electric vehicle to circumnavigate the globe in May after 584 days (19 months!) at sea. The impressive ship departed from Monaco on September 2010. GrabCAD is lucky to have caught an interview with Christian Ochsenbein, a lead engineer with PlanetSolar. Lauri:... read more →
Jun
03
In recent times, the Internet has enabled groups of engineers to work together with the sort of depth and breadth undoable years before. The Bleriot Project is a special example. In December 2007, Frenchman Stephane Bouye began working with a team to recreate the famous 1909 Bleriot XI airplane to... read more →
Jun
02
Vincenzo Ricci was our 1st place winner on the Kinoca-Minolta iPhone dock Challenge, so we decided to sit down with him and have a chat about himself and his work. (more…)
Jun
01
GrabCAD and Generat, an innovative motorcycle design company, have partnered to bring our community an interesting challenge-- Design a tire changing tool that works flawlessly with dirtbike tires and you can have a piece of the $2,200 up for grabs. Changing tires with tire levers can be a difficult challenge for... read more →
May
30
3-BMW by GrabCAD engineer warp. We welcome Warp to GrabCAD with his very impressive first upload. Ed-209 by GrabCAD engineer Onur Aytekin. Onur always impresses the GrabCAD community with his awesome CAD work and realistic renders. (more…)
