GrabCAD just may be the latest and greatest resource in the world of CAD – a massive online community of engineers and designers building a user-generated CAD library with a litany of features to encourage collaboration on design projects. GrabCAD bagged a cool $4 million in venture capital recently. Now, they’re looking for the top brass to join GrabCAD in creating the future of collaborative and open engineering.
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After pulling a little April Fool’s prank about “3D Printing your Pets” , The Economist returned to true form with a feature piece analyzing the future of manufacturing, discussing at length advances in capital and informational technologies. It’s a stellar read – if you have time, definitely read the entire piece. Here is the key takeaway.
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What do you do after growing an engineering community to 70,000 users and 20,000 models? You snag a massive 4 million in series A funding to add to the 1.1 million seed round previously achieved. The GrabCAD engineer and design community did just that to kick off the new year, with plans to grow the bustling model sharing site to the largest online engineering community in the known universe.
There are five reasons I just dropped what was doing to check this out *looks down at fist, punches face*. Fortunately, I didn’t have machined titanium rings on each finger or my face would be a bloody, unrecognizable mess. What’s exciting me to punches is a self-initiated competition going on over at GrabCAD. Put on by user Scott Bruins to design the ultimate Titanium Mens Wedding Ring. Scott is getting hitched next year and since he works in a machine shop, where he’s designed some other (quite fancy) Titanium Rings, he thought he’d offer up a challenge to the GrabCAD community for one of his very own. The challenge is on. Some designs have been submitted and engineers and designers of all sorts are getting excited about wedding rings.
A lot of people tell me there are “better things” to do with compact electric scooter fenders than strap them to my body and run through a crowd of cake-vomiting children at a birthday party wall of fire and punches. One of those activities which is said to be better, is tossing the existing fenders in a scrap heap and designing some completely new fenders; Fenders that scream supreme scooter style. You can do just that with the latest CrowdCAD project at GrabCAD.com. The best fender wins a GoPro HD Camera, but you don’t have much time left!
Some people call it a car. I call it pure awesomeness wrapped in a shell of pure awesomeness. It’s a Bugatti Veyron. And since it’s the most expensive car of modern history, it may be slightly challenging to even gaze upon it’s sleek frontal area or run your fingers along it’s hydraulic-powered rear spoiler. Chin up. A free Bugatti Veyron model is within your reach. Even better, there’s a SolidWorks surfacing tutorial that goes along with it. Punch it.
If 10,000 engineers in a single room makes you a bit nervous, you’ve not seen anything yet. GrabCAD is growing like hotcakes… Yes, hotcakes grow, ON HOTCAKE TREES. And it’s a well know fact that engineers can sustain themselves for hours on nothing but hotcakes. They also enjoy sharing models and providing input on models other people share. GrabCAD happens to be the perfect place to do that and the fancy infographic they’ve put together shows you exactly why. With knowledge of 161 different CAD products and versions, these engineers are bustin’ the seam of software-handling skill and making a name for themselves at the same time. Check out what the most popular CAD software is and what’s going on with the GrabCAD community.
You may have thought it, you may have sensed it, you may have felt it rub up against your ear and frighten you slightly. GrabCAD has closed another round of funding. This time, the 3D model-pumpin’ engineering community means million dollar business. Filling the roster of investment firms, they have Matrix Partners, Atlas Venture and NextView Ventures. Up alongside this group sit 4 other angel investors, John McEleney (former SolidWorks CEO), Jon Stevenson (Shape Data/Parasolid development), Alex Ott (QLIK,Siebel,SAP) and Angus Davis (TellMe). All together, they’re bringing $1.1 Million to the bank account of Boston-based GrabCAD. But even more, they bring industry knowledge and start-up experience to help push this start-up to the next level.
How would you like to stand dangerously close to the most light-weight superbike in the world as it flew by you? Yes? Well then, how would you like to be part of the team that design a wee, light-weight bit of it? HECK YEAH! If you’re game, then you’ll want to jump on the challenge from GrabCAD and electric motorcycle racing Amarok. The challenge is to “re-design the triple clamp for the Amarok P1 zero emission race bike that is competing to win the International Formula 75 TTXGP Championship.” The winner receives an iPad 2. But hurry, the contest ends June 1st!
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