GrabCAD - site for publishing 3D-projects came to a new stage of development

Company GrabCAD, which opened three years ago, the eponymous service for easy publishing and other amateur 3D-projects, has announced a new phase of its development. Success of the service received a weighty assessment of investors - in the life of the company announced the second round of funding. At this stage the company GrabCAD received an additional 8 million from Charles River Ventures Fund and personally from David Sacks, head of the company Yammer.

What if you draw on the computer design stunning two-seater with a great body, a beautiful landing and lights from a fantastic film exactly? The problem is that the model exists only on your PC and there is no available way to present it in all its glory the engineers car companies. The solution may lie in the service GrabCAD. The total amount of venture capital investment in the company has made more than $ 14 million, that is in itself evidence of the reputation of a young company.

Hardi Meybaum, founder of GrabCAD, describes his service as analog repository Github, for mechanical drawings. According to the creators GrabCAD to become strong community of mechanical engineers who will create and demonstrate computer 3D-model, and for enthusiasts who will hone their design skills and to turn out the portfolio.


Subscribers to the site can post their own CAD files and download files from other users. Companies and private users can post here his drawings, both in the private cloud storage. For example, if you have a promising design smart phone, you can send an invitation with a link to a closed file from strangers online GrabCAD. Built-in 3D-view model works in Chrome and Firefox, providing a full rendering drawings without installing additional software on the client side. Earnings of GrabCAD, presumably, will be built on a paid placement of closed files for the private exchange.

Another potential service GrabCAD - competitions. Manufacturing companies will pay for the service for and service competition to design something, and subscribers can post their work, winning prizes and money, without compromising the basic work.

The creators of the service GrabCAD sure that their service can become something more than just a place for communication engineers and designers and exchange projects. In particular, the service could become the largest library of ready-made drawings of parts and products for 3D-printing. Right now the site has GradCAD over 280,000 subscribers, representing about 10% of the global audience engineers. Of course, this is the number of users of social networks, but with a narrow specialization site results are quite good. For further information about the service GrabCAD available on the official web-site at http://grabcad.com .