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Some of you may have noticed some engineers receiving badges in the Most recent updates feed. It's time to announce the new feature that recognizes talent, activity, contribution, achievement and other characteristics that make some engineers stand out from the rest. The cool thing about the badges is that you can get all of them. Although some are given automatically and some personally by GrabCAD staff, some are easier to get, some require top-notch work, every single one can appear on your profile page if you're active, show off your talent and let everyone see how good of an engineer...
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GrabCAD received funding for the internet marketing and communication concept development that will help the company to make GrabCAD website more visible and accessible for everyone looking for solutions to CAD projects, engineered models, collaboration opportunities and everything related to mechanical engineering. The programme helps to collaborate with international experts in the internet marketing field and improve the in-house knowledge and experience.
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Our next much awaited Spotlight interview is with the first crowdCAD challenge winner Danny Tasmakis aka Danny Tas. Danny took home the first prize of the Amarok triple clamp competition, not an easy task among the 150 high quality entries. He’s been an active community member, and was happy to answer our questions about his background and more. He will be one jury member of the newest Exo bike fender challenge as well, so if you are participating, you might want to take a note or two reading the interview. GC: The first natural thing to ask is about the Amarok...
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Leaving the plants, bushes, trees and inflatable swimming pools aside, there are some edgy things you can do to a typical 4-bedroom family house garden that not only leave any mother-in-law speechless, but earn a few coolness points from even the most anti-gardening friends around. The first thing you can do is to dig a hole to the other side of the world. This extra-terrestial installation was actually created by a German landscape architecture company Topotek1 for the 2011 Xi'an International Horticultural Exposition. But the actual drawings of the masterpiece...
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3D humans are some of the most sought after CAD models out there. Useful in so many different ways, finding a good free model seems to be such a challenge. Here are the human models that GrabCAD has to offer. For free, of course. These poseable human figures from Gee are not quite human but for any kind of ergonomic studies they should be more than perfect. Plus they look super cool. The model is available in SolidWorks 2011 format but the zip file also includes STEP file. (more…)
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FlyNano is the brainchild of an aviation consultant, designer an enthusiastic pilot Aki Suokas who first dreamed of an aircraft to weigh less than 70 kilos over 7 years ago. This magical weight limit determines how an aircraft is classified - below 70 kg is unlicensed fun-fliers territory. FlyNano single-seater was officially launched at Aero 2011 in Friedrichshafen in Germany in April and photos from the test sessions are to be believed then you can orders yours soon. Technical details and more photos at the end of the interview. I had the chance to ask Aki Suokas a few questions...
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Outsourcing CAD and engineering services sounds like too much of a hassle, there are the technical aspects, specifications plus normal concerns related to using outside help for certain functions of the company. However, the fundamental points of what’s important in outsourcing are the same no matter the area and industry. Making outsourcing work isn’t rocket science. Here are my top 10 tips for successful outsourcing. #1. Know your reason to outsource. Knowing and remember whether if you outsource to save money, to focus on core competence, to balance out seasonal highs and lows? Remember your reason as this will help...
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Birds are the most efficient flying "machines" in the world. I had the opportunity to talk to Markus Fischer, Head of Corporate Design in Festo AG & Co. KG, German based engineering-driven company in pneumatic and electric actuators industry. Festo’s SmartBird is an innovative mechanical bird that they recently built to explore bird’s flight and challenges in the lightweight construction. See SmartBird in flight, check the video. Lauri: Why Smartbird? What was the idea behind this project? Markus Fischer: The objective of the project was to construct a bionic bird modelled on the herring gull. The fascination of building an artificial...
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Some of you have noticed that during the last 24 hours our website has experienced some stability issues. At times our site hasn’t been its usual snappy self and we have experienced some short downtime too. I wanted to take a minute to explain what’s going on. We are rolling out a major update to the infrastructure and backend code of our site and the stability issues have been an unintended and unfortunate side effect of this process. Content of our site, the CAD models, comments etc, user data, client projects and everything else is intact (and naturally we have...
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