Featured Resources

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  Webinar: How to Manage a Student 3D Printing Lab

  Most mid-sized schools have a few upper-level student operators running their 3D printers. The problem, however, is that they have so many students requesting 3D printing projects ALL AT ONCE! To make matters even more chaotic, some students send in their projects using email, FTP files or USB thumb drives. This puts a lot of unnecessary stress on lab operators and teachers to try to keep print requests organized. In fact, it can take up to 15% of an educator’s day! That’s time a teacher could have spent: Creating lessons plans Engaging with students Maintaining 3D Printers The solution? GrabCAD Shop. In this webinar you’ll learn why GrabCAD Shop is the solution educators and lab operators rely on to manage 3D printing requests. Be sure to watch until the very end so you can learn how you can sign up for a free trial at your school for the rest of 2020. Watch the webinar

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  Using GrabCAD Shop to Streamline 3D Printing in Schools

  Download the case study Jefferson County Schools, located in Golden, Colorado, offers additive manufacturing programs with the goal to prepare students for the industry. Matthew Brown is the S2TEM Instructor who has been teaching the programs for over 17 years. When the program first started, one 3D printer was enough to handle the print requests. However, as the program grew in popularity, so did the requests and printer usage. Brown soon realized he needed a solution to help him manage the multiple additive manufacturing project requests he received across the schools. GrabCAD Shop became that solution. Read this customer success story to learn how GrabCAD Shop both helps Brown manage the multiple 3D printing requests, and also how it helps students prepare for a future in additive manufacturing. Download the success story

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  How to Set Up GrabCAD Shop for Your School Lab

  GrabCAD Shop improves the 3D printing workflow between shop operators, teachers and students so the focus remains on learning. The all-in-one 3D printing lab management software helps students submit their requests while offering an easy-to-use dashboard for operators to organize orders by project, course or class. GrabCAD Shop is a web-based application that doesn’t require IT assistance. Administrators can set up multiple shops by courses and classes, assign which machines and materials are available for those shops, and start inviting students to use in less than 30 minutes. And now, GrabCAD Shop is FREE for schools for the rest of 2020! Learn more on how GrabCAD Shop can help your school’s 3D printing programs by downloading this free guide: Download the GrabCAD Shop for Schools guide   Ready to sign up for a free trial? Sign up for GrabCAD Shop today!

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  GrabCAD Shop Security Whitepaper

  GrabCAD Shop is a 3D printing order management application used by model shops: those organizations with dedicated operators that provide 3D printing and other model making services to engineers and designers throughout the company. GrabCAD Shop is a web application that is supported on Google Chrome and Firefox browsers. This whitepaper will outline the industry-leading measures that Stratasys has taken to ensure that our users’ data is secure. Download this GrabCAD Shop Security whitepaper

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  Best Practices: Setting Up a 3D Printing Shop

  A poorly organized shop can waste time and lead to expensive accidents. In addition, the average shop of engineers and one operator wastes $15,000 a year updating Excel documents, communicating via email, and getting lost in order paperwork. With all the pressures listed above, it’s no surprise that these pressures lead to poor communication and workflow. We at GrabCAD understand these problems and all that goes into running your shops. Between managing employees, to managing work orders, to managing all the 3D printers – there’s a lot to juggle in a single day. That’s why we created this eBook. This eBook will provide best practices on how to run your 3D printing shop: How to organize your workspace How to choose a work order management software How to improve workflows with departments and employees Click here to download A 3D Printing Management Software like GrabCAD Shop can rid shop owners of productivity pains. GrabCAD Shop helps simplifies the hassle of receiving and requesting, tracking, managing, and fulfilling work orders by providing a seamless all-in-one workflow solution.

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  The Ultimate Guide to Starting and Running Your Internal 3D Printing Shop

  When was the last time you processed a new work order and thought, Wow, that was easy? It’s probably no secret to you that running an internal 3D printing shop and managing orders isn’t always a walk in the park—there are frustrations and inefficiencies for you, the shop operator, and for the engineers and designers who order from you. Those challenges can take many forms, but the bottom line is this: the current (typical) workflow for internal shops is too manual. We estimated all the waste this process causes and, for the average shop of one operator and about ten engineers and designers, as much as $15,000 and 10-20% of the operator’s time gets wasted on inefficient order management. When you look at all the pains, challenges, and waste inherent in the typical shop management process, it’s obvious there has to be a better way. And that’s where an internal work order management solution comes into play—a solution like GrabCAD Shop. This whitepaper offers everything you need to know about our cloud-based production management software, GrabCAD Shop, and how to start and run your own internal shop, including: How GrabCAD Shop benefits internal 3D printing model shops, university and high […]

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  GRABCAD Print: The Why

  Before we officially launched GrabCAD Print, we wrote monthly “teaser” blogs that either described something that frustrated us about the current 3D printing process or alluded to a feature that would appear in the Beta release. For the sake of argument, let’s say that you didn’t read every single teaser blog over the course of five months. No problem. We’ve compiled those blogs here so you’ll have a metric ton of context before you dive in and download GrabCAD Print. Go on. Get after it.