Another video interview by Lauri Põldre, GrabCAD’s Sales Director, from the Hannover Messe ’11. This time he asked couple of questions from Volkswagen’s Head of Research Group, Prof. Dr. Werner Schreiber. They talked about the principles of innovation in Volkswagen, engineering trends and car design. Lauri Põldre: This is GrabCAD... read more →
Apr
08
Apr
07
Our preferred on-demand 3D print service i.materialise launched a new service today - Sketch to 3D - and we’re happy to have a helping hand in it by being the CAD service provider for this new service. 3D printing has become more accessible, more cost-efficient and in general more popular... read more →
Apr
06
Without any hesitation, we're totally awestruck and simply have to introduce the greatest blog post ever - crowdbuilding the most amazing Goldberg machine, by all Grabcadders. 100% of the credit goes to Scott Bruins, one of the community's most active and talented engineers who just came up with the idea... read more →
Apr
05
Lauri Põldre, our Sales Director, had an opportunity to interview Eric Sterling, Senior Vice President, Marketing for Siemens PLM software yesterday at Hannover Messe and Mr. Sterling had something cool to show us - Teamcenter Mobility that runs on iPad and other mobile devices. Transcript of the short interview below... read more →
Apr
03
Anyone remembers cassette tapes? And what you could do with them besides pushing the fast forward button on the player for some funny sound effects? While feeling somewhat nostalgic, I dug out a couple of entertaining videos that could actually legitimately use 'mechanical engineering' as an award category for commercials.... read more →
Mar
31
There is a lot of inventing going on in the world. The U.S Patent and Trademark Office granted 219 614 patents in 2010 alone. This is 602 patents a day, 25 patents and hour, one patent almost every other minute. Americans are the champions, but there are thousands of inventors... read more →
Mar
31
The slogan for Hannover Messe this year is "Smart Efficiency" and it sounds like a chapter from our playbook, GrabCAD is all about offering efficient engineering solutions. And since it’s the place to be for European small, medium-sized and large manufacturing and product development companies then we’ll be there. We... read more →
Mar
29
The beginning of 2011 has been great for GrabCAD and there have been some important changes that I wanted to share with you. Firstly, we want to welcome two new partners to GrabCAD - Seedcamp and TechStars. In January we annonced that we won Seedcamp London and just last week... read more →
Mar
18
Our site search got a nice little improvement - when searching for something you immediately see suggestions based on what you’re typing. So when you enter "engi…" it already shows you a list of engine models and you can either select one to check it our or refine your search... read more →
