GrabCAD
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| Public | |
| Traded as | NASDAQ: SSYS |
| Industry | Mechanical Engineering |
| Founded | Cambridge, Massachusetts (2009) |
| Founder | Hardi Meybaum (CEO / mechanical engineer) |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Key people
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Jon Stevenson (VP of Technology) Armen Zildjian (VP of Sales and Marketing) |
| Products | See "Products and Solutions" |
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Number of employees
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81 (2017) |
| Website | grabcad.com |
GrabCAD, Inc. is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup that has created a free cloud-based collaboration solution that helps engineering teams manage, view and share CAD files.
GrabCAD was founded in Estonia in 2009 by current CEO, Hardi Meybaum, and Indrek Narusk as a marketplace to connect engineers with CAD-related jobs. GrabCAD evolved into a community for engineers to share CAD models and moved its HQ to Cambridge, MA in 2011. In 2013, GrabCAD released Workbench, a free cloud-based collaboration solution. Workbench is used by companies big and small to support the design of physical products of all sorts - from basic screws to jet engine brackets at GE, to robotics that zap germs. According to the company site, GrabCAD was founded with the goal of bringing together all the tools engineers need to manage and share CAD files into one easy to use platform.
On September 16, 2014 GrabCAD was acquired by Stratasys.Stratasys Ltd. is a manufacturer of 3D printers and 3D production systems for office-based rapid prototyping and direct digital manufacturing solutions. Engineers use Stratasys systems to model complex geometries in a wide range of thermoplastic materials.
GrabCAD began as a Community where engineers could upload and download models from a free CAD library. Today, the Community consists of over 3,890,000 users and is nearing 2,110,000+ open source models. The Community also offers a range of challenges with prizes, from Ultimaker's "3D Printer Toy Design Challenge" to GE's "Jet Engine Bracket Challenge", as well as pro bono challenges like ModVic's "Steampunk Wheelchair" and the "Eyes to Hear" Challenge. There is also a large and growing number of engineering tutorials available on the Community site.
In April 2013, GrabCAD released Workbench, a free cloud-based collaboration solution that helps engineering teams manage, share, and view CAD files. The idea behind Workbench is to replace costly and complex solutions that engineering teams often use when versions and revisions become hard to track. Workbench allows multiple engineers to work on the same files at the same time without overwriting each other's work. Workbench also lets engineers share files externally and with non-CAD users, without having to set up or maintain a server.
Workbench is hosted on Amazon's S3 secure server cloud architecture, and has a range of useful features including:
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