Table of Contents

Introduction the Digital Revolution Gets Physical vii

1 Gearheads Get No Respect 1

2 Since the Potter’s Wheel, the Most Important Tool in History 13

3 A Million Engineers on the March 35

4 New Culture, New Tools Converge in the Cloud 79

5 Design Challenge: Break Down the Monastery Doors 93

6 Here’s My Prototype; Please Kick the Crap Out of It 125

7 Manufacturing: Here You Go; Make This 149

8 Marketing: Engineers Can Do It Better 181

9 The Puzzle Pattern Emerges 199

Appendix 213

Acknowledgments 219

Index 221

About the Author

Hardi Meybaum is a mechanical engineer, and the cofounder and CEO of GrabCAD Inc. Hardi's vision of how manufacturers, engineers, designers, and students could work together online led him to create the GrabCAD Community for engineers and designers, bringing together more than one million members who have shared more than 350,000 projects.