GrabCAD Community User Group

Created by Anna Skopenko on 10 January, 2018

As you may have noticed, the user profiles got a new redesign yesterday.

I wanted to take a moment to point out some of main changes here:


  1. Mobile responsive layout. As we keep seeing more and more users visiting GrabCAD using their different mobile devices, it was important to redesign the page to a totally new layout that works well no matter what screen size you are using. The new design goes hand-in-hand with our most recent new functionality - Groups.
  2. Custom select your best models. This has probably been the most requested feature from our users. So far the profiles didn't show any of your models at all, and on the engineers page you could only see automatically picked recently uploaded models. We changed that! Now you can go to your profile edit view, scroll to the very end and change the default order of all your content, or pick 6 of your best models manually. They will be displayed on your profile about page as well as on the engineers search page.
  3. Who is following you? The second most requested feature has been: how to see who is following you, or who have you followed. Now you can. Go to your profile and click on the "followers" or "following" count in the sidebar and you are introduced to 2 new pages with lists of users.
  4. Tagline. The tagline has always been there, but now you can use it to give a short summary about yourself in the engineers search page. With the custom selected models, this gives you much more control about how other community members see you in the engineers list.
  5. More links to your social accounts. In addition to your website and Twitter links, you can now also link to your LinkedIn resume and Facebook profile
  6. Total count of models and tutorials. You can now easily see the total count of models and tutorials when browsing an engineers profile.
  7. My followers count. We introduced followers count in the engineers list some time ago, now you can also see how many followers an engineer has in the header of their profile. We think this a good social proof from the Community itself to show who has been active and sharing knowledge and good content.
  8. New edit form. To make it easier to update your profile, we created a new edit page to bring all the information together in one place and also give you a quick preview in the sidebar of how your profile is represented to the Community. You can access it through the "Edit profile" button in your profile header.
  9. plus many other small improvements and tweaks...


Go check out your new profile and let us know what you think!