Staying focused on your core expertise is the key to success and when you’re employing highly paid engineers then you want them to work on things that really matter. Instead of spending their time on repetitive routine drafting and file conversion let them work on product development and innovation. Leave... read more →
Apr
26
Apr
20
Company: Wermo Industry: wooden furniture Services used: photorealistic images and technical drawings Benefits of using GrabCAD: 2-3 weeks shorter sales cycle Increased customer satisfaction Lower costs for product development About Wermo Wermo is one of the oldest and best known custom furniture manufacturers in the region making wooden furniture for... read more →
Apr
20
GrabCAD's first library launch on 10th August 2010 was exactly 253 days ago. To celebrate the 100 000 downloads milestone reached today, we did a little bit of magic with the numbers and pulled out some interesting data about our growing community of engineers and the library of models. The... read more →
Apr
20
At first sight fishing and computer-aided design or CAD don’t have that much in common but even mechanical engineers are people and some of them are bound to be fond of fishing and everything related. Going through the keywords that bring traffic to Grabcad.com I noticed one curious phrase -... read more →
Apr
20
With the release of Portal 2 all the gaming fans have gone a bit turret crazy. And for a very good reason - they’re deadly, yet perfectly adorable. Want to own one? We have the models - Portal turret for Solidworks and same turret for AutoCAD. Sign up, download, 3D... read more →
Apr
19
I had an opportunity to interview Andreas Spieler, Product Manager of SolidWorks at Hannover Messe. Mr. Spieler had something cool to show us when demoing their n!Fuze software solution that brings real-time collaboration into CAD software and puts parts of it into a web browser. For the sake of convenience... read more →
Apr
19
If you’ve been clicking around grabcad.com then you’ve probably noticed that a number of pages look different than what you’re used to. It’s a bit confusing, we know, but instead of waiting for a month to get every single page prepared and launching all at once we decided, true startup-style,... read more →
Apr
12
During the 5 days at the world's largest industrial trade fair I spoke to over 200 people from different manufacturing companies. We mainly discussed engineering trends in today's global era, about the most critical topics in product development cycle of these companies and whether GrabCAD and our 2500+ engineers could... read more →
Apr
12
It’s been a little while since our last competition but here goes again - our good friend and advisor Josh Mings over at SolidSmack.com (you are subscribed to his excellent site, right?) has pulled some magic moves and has 3DConnexion’s SpacePilot PRO up for grabs. SpacePilot PRO isn’t just any... read more →
