Novedge Pulse™ of Lauri Põldre

Congratulations to all engineers who participated in the Solid Edge tutorial challenge. Here are the 10 engineers who each earned $50 with the best tutorials (with feedback from the jury)! 1. GrabCAD engineer Marek with “Solid Edge Frame Tutorial“ “A  [more...]

Most of the time people don’t really appreciate engineering underneath what they get when buying something. Only a few realize the work that was put into the engineering process, all done with the aim of making sure it will work the right way. For instance when looking  [more...]

Another great week for GrabCAD Engineers; Models we browsed through this week had so many great features, were super high quality and displayed many engineer’s superior CAD skills. Chevy by GrabCAD engineer Ignacio Abarrategui This old classic Chevy oozes charisma  [more...]

Konica Minolta 3D Scanning Labs launched an iPhone dock design challenge on GrabCAD a few weeks ago. With over 160 design concepts to choose from, it was a challenge for Michael Bernero of Konica Minolta labs to select winners. Nevertheless, the results are in! Vincenzo,  [more...]

500 Group’s Supercar body challenge is officially over! Results have been tallied and $3500 will be handed over to the winners today. In one of our most exciting challenges yet, around 200 unique concepts for the body of a predetermined chassis from 500 Group  [more...]

GrabCAD engineer Neil Louw took a little time out of his busy schedule to talk to us about his work, his life and what motivates him. Neil lives in a Nelspruit, South Africa, very close to the world-renown Kruger National Park. It may seem far away to most of us around  [more...]

Figulo’s Ceramic Home Décor Design Challenge generated a lot of submissions – 330 by last count. Prizes included $100 cash plus 50% of total profits. Now we just received word that now you can go to Shapeways and buy any of the winning designs! These are  [more...]

Our fellow GrabCAD workmate Gabe happens to attend MIT and borrowed their Makerbot for the Summer break. We’ve been fooling around with it and finally have it working. We want you to suggest or make something for us to print off for our Boston office! Have a  [more...]

In case you’d hadn’t noticed, GrabCAD has two new challenges up and running! Team-up, bring your best ideas, make an elegant design and have a chance to win it all! Dampening Device for Windbreaker doors for large Mega-Yachts -Under heavy winds, doors are  [more...]

Another awesome week for GrabCAD and the community that uploads so many great models each week. Scaled figure by GrabCAD engineer Rory This very impressive model of a human looks great in any renders– next to a car design, building, machinery. It’s available  [more...]

I had the pleasure of attending the “Sustainability – Innovation Services for a Smarter Economy” conference at the Nokia headquarters in Copenhagen to present the GrabCAD story, and our vision for the future. I enjoyed many of the other presentations  [more...]

Quattro Eco Mechanics, a team of several young Greeks, is developing the Dominator prototype vehicle which is bound to race in the Shell Eco Marathon in the Netherlands from May 17th-19th. The team has uploaded many CAD files onto GrabCAD and is open to suggestions  [more...]

Consumer 3D printer company Makerbot, UK rapid prototyping firm Econolyst and charity group Techfortrade have set a challenge to the world: How can you use 3D printing to help the Developing World? The prize: $100,000 dollars. It’s called the 3D4D challenge and anyone  [more...]

Hardi recently asked me to write a little something about what GrabCAD means to me, a task that is worth more than a few thousand words but had to be written in a few hundred. Simply put, I love GrabCAD because it is a truly revolutionary synthesis of a learning environment  [more...]

Red seems to be the colour of Friday. At least in this part of the hemisphere as the temperatures are rising, lot of interesting stuff is cooking in the office and there are some fun things that came live today. It’s quite appropriate to start off with GrabCAD’s  [more...]

Another awesome week for the GrabCAD community. It seems there is no end to the talent and skills on display! Hydroplane by GrabCAD engineer J E Paz In the air, on the sea with this awesome model it is just another fine example of quality uploads from J E Paz Ar-15  [more...]

I was lucky to speak with Mr. Dirk van Braeckel, Director of Design & Styling at Bentley Motors. Here’s what he had to say about his job at Bentley, the tools he uses to do the fine work, and the future of the luxury automobile business. Mr. Dirk van Braeckel  [more...]

Another day, another update – this time it is ranking replaced with more fair scoring system. Many of you have been climbing in the ranks of GrabCAD from the day one since joining the community. The ranking has been relative and dependent on how other member  [more...]

GrabCAD’s newest feature? An official GrabCAD iPad app that allows you to keep up to date and in the loop on the newest and neatest models uploaded to GrabCAD! So what are you waiting for? Download your GrabCAD app off on the App store right now and check it  [more...]

Konica Minolta and GrabCAD are teaming up to offer an automotive-related design challenge. Konica Minolta is asking our community to design an iPhone dock integrated into the dashboard of a Toyota Prius. The competition begins on April 17 and will close on May 3, 2012. We  [more...]

There has been one small improvement made for all users – configuring profile and account settings. Something that looks like a tiny change, yet something that can make the life much better for many. Since yesterday evening, the profile info that all community  [more...]

500 Group’s Supercar Body Design Challenge ended last night. Almost 200 designs were uploaded during this insanely popular 40 day challenge! GrabCAD is pleased to announce 500 Group’s extremely popular supercar body design challenge ended last night with  [more...]

on my last browsing session on GrabCAD a War Chariot Model got my attention. I checked the profile of Chuck Ridley and was amazed by great models on his profile. I sent private message and asked more. This is the inspiring answer I got ” I am a robotics systems  [more...]

We’re excited to announce a new challenge tasking the community to design creative and intricate 3D models with ZW3D CAD/CAM software. The winning entries will have the chance to be featured on the cover page of the ZW3D 2013 brochures, and a $2594 prize purse.  [more...]

The supercar challenge for the 500 Group hosted on GrabCAD is proceeding well with over 70 entries already. With 11 days left, we expect to see many more models and designs uploaded for consideration in the $3500 prize purse! There are 2 separate body challenges–  [more...]

Another great week with hundreds of impressive models uploaded to GrabCAD from engineers worldwide. Here are a few of our favorites. Tangye horizontal twin cylinder steam engine by GrabCAD engineer Tony An awesomely detailed engine model! Alfa spider1931 by GrabCAD  [more...]

Here are the results of our second tutorials challenge in GrabCAD. Top 10 entries were selected based by the number of “It worked” clicks. We are very happy to see 45 new tutorials made of models that can be found in our library. Thank you to all the participants.  [more...]

If not already, GrabCAD is getting serious now. Since this morning, many of you have likely spotted the changes for Home feed and the new Notifications feature. Some changes are obvious, some less, hence a more detailed explanation of the updates are in order. Popular  [more...]

3Dconnexion wants 3D mouse users to show non 3D mouse users what they are missing by creating a demo video! $5400 is up for grabs in this challenge, which ends on April 18th. Why do you like using your 3D mouse? How does the superior 3D navigation and two handed work-style  [more...]