Excerpt from Haydn Shaughnessy on Forbes.com: "When large companies get it, you can be sure the momentum has some pedigree. Large companies have been shocked by the rise of crowdfunding and the capacity of small companies and start-ups to fire up consumer passion on the back of an idea. Let’s... read more →
Nov
04
Nov
04
The jury spent many hours poring over the GrabCAD Lightweight Portable Trailer Challenge, and the top three designs for the Catfish trailer each spent some time as the top choice before discussions and debate changed the final order. They are currently en route to take the Catfish to the annual... read more →
Nov
01
My last post was about the integrations of different SaaS applications. My pen-friend Oleg shot back with another article - Why cloud won’t solve CAD/PDM/PLM integration problem tomorrow? He made a very interesting point about integration - that the last product moving to the cloud is the CAD software. Is... read more →
Nov
01
Haydn Shaughnessy is a respected writer, speaker and advisor on the topic of enterprise innovation. He has a popular column dealing with the subject on Forbes.com and has an upcoming book entitled "The Fluid Core: How Smart People and Smart Companies Are Responding to Crisis and Opportunity". Last week he released a report... read more →
Oct
30
Engineers love to guess what other product developers will come up with next. There is no better example than the Apple following, which extends beyond engineers into the general public. There are major sites and journalists dedicated purely to predicting what Apple will come up with next, like macrumors.com. It... read more →
Oct
28
Matthieu Lapeyre is a CAD guy who recently started a new project where he had to work closely with a software team. In the process, Matthieu learned that the tools and processes in the software world are more capable and evolved, because software engineers use tools written by software engineers... read more →
Oct
28
As XYZ Workshop says, "The proof is in the print." The XYZ Workshop team, formed in early 2013 by Australian Architects Elena Low and Kae Woei Lim, rallied support for their 3D printing competition entry on GrabCAD. Thanks to GrabCADr support and an amazingly creative design, they were able to... read more →
Oct
24
We are testing your speed, branding, and ingenuity with our most recent group of design Challenges. Lomography needs accessories for their DIY SLR camera while URBEE 2 needs an insignia. The next GrabCAD Challenge launches new speedruns in the Library. (more…)
Oct
24
One of the early adopters of the integration between Workbench and Fusion 360 is Aurel Estidial, creator of Microgeneration Concepts. The objective of Microgeneration Concepts is to design energy conversion systems for small scale power generation. Aurel is a huge advocate of open source projects so the open engineering capabilities... read more →
