Help design new tap fittings concept
We are looking for new fresh ideas for tap fittings.
The challenge is to come up with new concepts for their one-handle tap fittings. The results do not have to be 100% finalized - they need innovative ideas and new creative approaches. New fittings must follow the elegant design as well as functionality and user-friendliness from a customer perspective.
Thank you to GrabCAD member Sylwester Blajer for the above image: Kitchen tap
Requirements
There are no hard requirements, Be creative and show what you can come up with.
Design doesn't have to be finalized. We are looking for a design and functionality suggestions.
You should follow the elegant design line as much as possible.
Functionality and ergonomics are important.
You don't have to design the whole lineup, one fitting is enough to participate.
Rules
Winning design will be chosen based on the design and functionality
The competition is open to everyone
Team entries are welcome. In case of team win, prize money will be transferred to team leader who is solely responsible for splitting it among team members
You can submit several designs
Only models uploaded to GrabCAD library will participate in the competition
Only models uploaded through this challenge page here will participate in the competition
You may upload a private model but you need to share access to indrek@grabcad.com
Privately uploaded models will be made public after the competition deadline
Models can be done in any CAD software as long as a STEP or IGES files are also uploaded
Competition starts: 31st of October, 2011
Competition ends: 29th of November, 2011
Competition winner will be announced in GrabCAD’s blog no later than 6th of December
Prizes
- 1st prize
600 USD
- 2nd prize
400 USD
- 3rd prize
200 USD
- 4th prize
100 USD
- 5th prize
100 USD
- 6th prize
100 USD
About the jury?
Most creative design will be chosen by GrabCAD engineers and experts.
About GrabCAD
GrabCAD is the largest online community by, and for, Mechanical Design Engineers.
Whether you are an engineer looking to share your talent and designs with the world, a customer looking to crowd source solutions to your toughest design problems from our hundreds of thousands and growing membership, in need of contracting directly with an engineer for ad-hoc design work in lieu of a full-time hire, or you simply wish to download from our extensive catalog of free models, GrabCAD brings the power of the web to all your mechanical design needs.
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Deadline Passed
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Total entries 258Private 7
- Who’s in the jury?
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Indrek Narusk
GrabCAD
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143 comments
ALI over 1 year ago
here you go guys
another chance to shine
Good Luck
William over 1 year ago
This looks like it should be fun
:)))
with some wicked models
getting uploaded good luck all
:)))
Alireza SKH over 1 year ago
ofcourse that is. i will do my best too.
Danny Tasmakis over 1 year ago
I feel for the judges for this challenge, looks like we're going to get a lot of entries.
ishimoto over 1 year ago
Damian,
all you need is a PayPal account.
Hevi over 1 year ago
"Competition ends: 29th of November, 2011"
"Competition winner will be announced in GrabCAD’s blog no later than 14th of November"
??? :)
Alireza SKH over 1 year ago
maybe thats 14th november 2012. lol
Lauri Poldre over 1 year ago
Thank you Hevi, we have updated the rules.
Kira over 1 year ago
i'm just really really curious, does it matter if we model it in a student version CAD software, as long as we can upload it via STEP/IGES format?
Kira over 1 year ago
I intended to address this issue to all of GrabCad's challenges.
Why i ask? Because before I downloaded the free student edition of SolidWorks, they slightly mentioned that this is ONLY for educational purposes... long story short, I want to make some money. =D
Shridharan over 1 year ago
No kira,its not a problem at all..jus you want to upload it in STEP/IGES format.
Anthony Samboer over 1 year ago
I have a question for Berit form Damixa? Do the winning entries become the property of Damixa? In other words is the Intellectual property transferred to Damixa or does it still belong to the designer/engineer. Also what about the entries that haven't won anything? Does entering the competition automatically mean that Damixa has claim to all the designs?
Chris Duncan over 1 year ago
What exact time does the contest end on the 29th?
Alireza SKH over 1 year ago
i couldnt upload my model.i dont know why but its about 1 day that my browse bottom in upload part doesnt work so icouldnt upload any of mymodels for domixa.can i send them to one of the juries email to ttake participate in copm?
Maarten_Dominicus over 1 year ago
I had problems with exporting to IGES format from 3ds max 2010, any tips?
Thanks
Mickey Gole over 1 year ago
i can't find my 2nd concept "Harmonarc" which was uploaded about more than 30 min before the deadline among the contest entries. did i do something wrong ?? if i did can it be remedied ?
Harmonarc
Johannes Alderse Baas over 1 year ago
Awesome entries!
Let the best man win!
smmoosavian over 1 year ago
we are still waiting for the results ! :D
Pierre over 1 year ago
^^
Branko Stokuca over 1 year ago
who won this contest?
Radu Stoleru over 1 year ago
it is december 6th
Josef Snabb over 1 year ago
Yes, they should announce the winner anytime now. Exiting!
Radu Stoleru over 1 year ago
anytime now
smmoosavian over 1 year ago
I uploaded a design for it and it has not been downloaded yet !
Azhar over 1 year ago
anytime now
Maarten_Dominicus over 1 year ago
they failed their deadline
berzer over 1 year ago
They should say that on the blog... :/
chris napier over 1 year ago
Any word on the winners?
Voibor over 1 year ago
Has anyone ever won?
Where to see the results of the competition?
Победил ли кто нибудь ?
Где посмотреть результаты конкурса ?
Vasiliy Lapa over 1 year ago
Результатов пока нет((( Странно
Stuart Marshall over 1 year ago
Any news on the winners?
Maarten_Dominicus over 1 year ago
taking so long :(
Seb Parkes over 1 year ago
I suppose it takes alot of time to asses over 300 entries : /
Radu Stoleru over 1 year ago
it hard to decide when there are so many great models
Nuno Felix over 1 year ago
Just give me the 600.00 dollars and get it over with... lol
smmoosavian over 1 year ago
lets divide it felix !! half for you and half for me !! :-)
Sönke Dierks over 1 year ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuABhumm6fY&feature=related
just for the waiting time...
Maarten_Dominicus over 1 year ago
Thanks for the music Sönke
:D
Kaspar Kiis over 1 year ago
As Damixa did not agree to pay the prizes then GrabCAD will pay it and select the winners. We ask the community to pick the winners by liking the entry models. The models gathering most likes will be the winners. Deadline for voting is 15th of December.
Nuno Felix over 1 year ago
vote for me!!
smmoosavian over 1 year ago
I changed my private model to public
vote for meeee !!
Damixa X3
Sönke Dierks over 1 year ago
i´ll drink one beer for every like i get! i´m serious.
please have a look at my files and hit "like it"!
Radu Stoleru over 1 year ago
there has to be few judges
this isn't facebook
anyway
I swear I will do a tripple-backflip over 20 carjunks with a spaceship if you like my model
I know you can, just do IT! I know I can!
Seb Parkes over 1 year ago
I'm screwed. : / ...
Radu Stoleru over 1 year ago
I ask for the 322 people who have worked for a damixa cad to help for a old motorcycle restoration.It's damaged man and she ask for more miles, and where I work I don't get enough money not even for a holliday break. I am writing this to ask you to support the dedication of a true motorcyclist who has a chance to meet the rebirth of his bike.
Info in my files, some pics.
Sorry if I annoyed anyone
Just hit the Like button
Thanks!
Hevi over 1 year ago
@Kaspar Kiis - What can I say... for me it's stupid that "Like" butten will tell who is the winner ;)
It should be few other judges - not all of us; judges should not be in this contest...
Hevi over 1 year ago
@Kaspar Kiis - and... what is going on with Damixa?
Hevi over 1 year ago
@Kaspar Kiis - more thing that people will not respect rules for this contest but they will just hit "like button" because this or this model is futuristic, because "it's f**n awsomeee", etc... lat of people made models regarding rules of this contest and now they will lose becouse someone else has freakin awsome futuristic not from this wolrd model which is runned by cryptonite ;) ...what you think?
Hevi over 1 year ago
@Kaspar Kiis - last thing (I hope), If you want to choose by "like button"; for this contest entries you should restart every "likes" that everyone have same chance to win. I someone put jhis model on 1st day of contest then I suppose he has few "likes"; what can say someone who put his model in the last day of contest???
Johannes Alderse Baas over 1 year ago
Hey there,
I agree with Hevi.. I don't think that people will take a look at all the 322 entries to decide wich one they like most..
And I'm also afraid that the most futuristic design wins.. Just because it looks cool..
To bad I chose for a producable prototype I geuss..
Requirements
"Functionality and ergonomics are important"
Rules
"Winning design will be chosen based on the design and functionality"
@ Kaspar Kiis Isn't it better to make a jury..?
Johannes
JS over 1 year ago
Sounds a lot like a popularity contest versus a design contest. It would be cool to see someone judging the design itself.
David Dearing over 1 year ago
Wait, the sponsor backed out? Am I reading that right?
Azhar over 1 year ago
this is not a fair method, not a fair method at all
Azhar over 1 year ago
new comers like me will not get many likes compared to people who are on it for months/years
Carco over 1 year ago
@Azhar:
Tell it at Damixa....
Carco over 1 year ago
No more designs without leaving their money in GrabCad for a sure winner. It is my opinion, because scoundrels as Damixa there are too many in the
world, and now even more.
If they want cheap designs that grasp them of which we have loaded on GrabCad, that they are free, but we design that we want design, we musn´t do favors these persons.
Sorry. I´m very angry today...
I propose that in our blogs, on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin .... all these sites, we talk about Damixa to prevent other colleagues laugh at and maybe make it clear that his behavior toward more than 300 people have been nasty.
I will not participate at this time in any other challenge until this issue is not resolved. I hope and wish that my colleagues do something similar or explain here their opinion.
Greetings to all and I feel that these things happen.
Josef Snabb over 1 year ago
Did Damixa backad down? What seriously? This feels really unproffesional and doesn´t look good for Grabcad.
A competition needs a jury. Let some of the Crabcad staff take like the 20 models with most likes and than pick the 6 winners considering best design and function. That would at least be more fair I think.
Pierre over 1 year ago
like facebook ? no thanks...-_-
Andrey Jasiukaitis over 1 year ago
Come on guys! That is a very stupid idea to select a winner by counting "likes".
Pierre over 1 year ago
yes
Chris Duncan over 1 year ago
Winner should be selected by a competent professional design engineer or engineers. "Likes" might reflect a valid winner and it might not, it seems like more of a popularity contest. If you go by likes then you may be adding fail on top of fail.
Disappointed with Damixa to say the least. If they weren't 100% committed to paying then they shouldn't have wasted everyone's time. It's probably an in-house design engineer feeling afraid of losing his job and telling the CCO that none of the designs are workable when he really knows that they are. Recently I've seen some resistance to crowd sourcing from in-house designers I wouldn't be surprised at all if that was the case here. We need to keep an eye on Damixa for the next year or so to make sure none of our design ideas show up in their line-up.
Seriously though, compared to stuff that sells in the states, some of Damixa's current line looks downright ugly to me, including their award winning ARC. If they really want to expand into the world-wide market then they need to open up to some new and different ideas. Maybe it's just that they have such a narrow myopic idea of what a "good" design is they can't see anything else.
I still love this web site. It's just having some growing pains and some hard lessons. 2nd the suggestion that contest holders should leave a deposit and maybe they should be encouraged to look at some of the past contests to see if they think the caliber of designs is going to live up to their expectations. I wonder if this CCO even bothered to do that, or if she just thought, oh well if there's nothing I like then I'll just back out of my promise.
Hardi Meybaum over 1 year ago
Hi everyone, we are really sorry about that, we will definitely work harder to choose customers for Challenges more carefully. Indrek just wrote the blogpost to describe the situation here - http://blog.grabcad.com/2011/12/grabcad-damixa-challenge-vote-for-the-winner/
The good news is that the winners will get the prices promised and we will pay from our own pockets. We didn't want to be the judges and thought that it would be great if the community can choose the winners.
Azhar over 1 year ago
i would like it if the garbcad team picks the winners from all the entries
John Huizingh over 1 year ago
Like-Dislike system does not work in this case. Do you really think all the participants will download the datat and take a close look at the more than 300 entries. No, they will not. So this means that the winner will be kind of randomly picked which is totally wrong in this case. And like what was already mentioned before, some have uploaded at the first day and have already started with more likes than others.
It should be a jury, GRABCAD staff jury only is fine for me.
I will never ever buy a DAMIXA product anymore by the way. Even if they say now there is nothing that they can use (which is offcourse not true) they still should pay the prices and take their loss. This is commercial also very bad for DAMIXA because it will gain a lot of negative messages on the internet.
Last remark: If DAMIXA feels that they did not get the right result, first of all the assignment is totally wrong and secondly they have had enough time during the process by putting a message in the challenge to guide the designs in the preferred direction. But there was never a comment or remark from this COO.
John Huizingh over 1 year ago
Other possibility: Do not announce the winners but give every entry a t-shirt. Then you will have 300 happy and understanding engineers and otherwise 6 happy and 294 unhappy...Hopefully 1500 USD is enough for 300 T-shirts...:-)
Pierre over 1 year ago
Hihi john good idea ! :-)
Hevi over 1 year ago
Idea is very good. GrabCAD judges or TShirts :)
Like/dislike is not fair :( I think that people deon;t even read the rules for this competition... they just hit like like like like...
Philip Gilbanks over 1 year ago
I agree with the majority, GrabCAD T-shirts for all entries is a much fairer way in this case. It is con siderably noticeable that the entries on the final page have far less Likes than those on the first page, purely because people get bored of going through the Designs.
Carco over 1 year ago
I also think that perhaps should be a jury in charge of getting GrabCad winners for this contest, but what of the shirts is not a bad idea and they would be cheaper, of course. But we ourselves get bored looking at our designs is something that comes and I do not mind:
If someone is bored deep to see our own designs can leave and take better good Call of Duty games to avoid boredom ... Be serious for once, colleagues.
Regards.
Sergiej over 1 year ago
I think Philip is right. First few days and ppl like to see other designs, comment them etc... but then there was new contest, news etc so newcommers have problems with geting "likes" ;)
skan over 1 year ago
Though I haven't taken part on this contest I share your feelings on Damixia's rudeness.
Even if they didn't want to produce any of the models they should pay the prize. It's a small amount for a company and they can get plenty of coold ideas.
Maarten_Dominicus over 1 year ago
Vote for me pls :D
Wont regret it :D
Radu Stoleru over 1 year ago
Hello again
I ask for the 322 people who have worked for a damixa cad to help for a old motorcycle restoration.It's damaged man and she ask for more miles, and where I work I don't get enough money not even for a holliday break. I am writing this to ask you to support the dedication of a true motorcyclist who has a chance to meet the rebirth of his bike.
Info in my files, some pics.
Just hit the Like button (For the Damixa model)
Thanks!
Sorry again
It a good ideea with the T-shirts too.
And I will wear it !
Thales Araujo over 1 year ago
And who guaratees they just don't wanna pay and are stealing our designs?
William over 1 year ago
I have been going through all the words that people have to say about this comp and terrible that it is that Damixa done what they have done. I do congratulate the GrabCAD staff on honouring this comp but that is just the staff that work with GrabCAD in general doing what is best for the community total respect to them for it. There is one small problem this contest is not fair any more and I totally agree with what
John Huizingh has said - about 12 hours ago
Other possibility: Do not announce the winners but give every entry a t-shirt. Then you will have 300 happy and understanding engineers and otherwise 6 happy and 294 unhappy...Hopefully 1500 USD is enough for 300 T-shirts...:-)
This would be a great idea and then this way everyone is happy as I can see this comp getting talked about with in the community for some time just like that happened with the Saare Yatch comp.....
IF I HAD MY WAY AND GRABCAD WAS WILLING ALL THE PRIZE MONEY THAT WAS SUPPOSE TO GO TO THE WINNERS WOULD GO TO SOME CHARITY FOR KIDS THAT HAS NOTHING AND GIVE THEM KIDS A BETTER CHRISTMAS.
Pierre over 1 year ago
yes Thales maybe it's possible ! :/
Kir Ari over 1 year ago
To me it sounds rediculus, that the company decided to back off. Completely insane.
Well, first of all, and this is quite obvious, a lot of companies are spending billions to establish a good name, but those guys just SOLD it for 600 quit!!! Like I havent't participated in this one, but I will never ever in my life have anything to do with them... I think this descision indeed ruined all their branding to nothing... for 600 quit...
Second thing is that this competition, among others, has the greatest outcome both with quantity and quality point of view. I have never seen such outcome and could clame this particular crowdsource as an example of THE Great Success. Besides, that was one of the reason I have not participated: simply when I've opened the entries I found out that I cannot possibly come with something better...
So I would say CONGRATULATIONS to all the guys participating, all entries are wicked (TM WILLIAM)! And good stuff that GrabCad guys for you decided to support this challenge despite everything. I've already voted, so do vote and good luck :)
William over 1 year ago
I am withdrawing my entry to this competition as I have went through all the 322 uploads and I have seen some really great and very impressive concept designs that I think are a lot better then mine and I should not be in second place to to people clicking on the LIKE button. I know this could change @ any time but if I did happen to be won of the winners of this competition. I would want to win it by my design of the model that judges took the time to mark and not by how many LIKES my model got. This is a terrible situation that Damixa has caused this great community. I do respect GrabCAD and there staff for upholding the deal that Damixa promised GrabCAD and all its members. This is just a prime example on how great GrabCAD and it's staff are to keep us the community happy with this wicked web site.
Mark A over 1 year ago
Hi All
Well as are most I’m disappointed with damixa, and I applaud Grabcad decision for honouring the prize and trying to do the right thing,
By the look of some of the amazing entry’s, many people have spent many hours (whether they are starting out with 3d or are Long time Pros) to provide quality designs, and all should be congratulated
Many have stated forgo the prize and just provide a t-shirt for all, which is good but…. I see the T-shirts as trophy to be won, and providing t-shirts to all designers, the trophy become less of a trophy and more of a souvenir (..if grabcad wanted to offer stickers/badges or something else…well that’s another story)
I would be more than happy (as per Williams) suggestions to donate the money, (at least I know the time I spent went for a good cause…)
Well since I have talked enough have a Merry Christmas
And enjoy
Nic over 1 year ago
I must thank the GrabCAD staff for handling this matter in a way that reflects the professionalism of this community. Thanks to all the other GrabCAD'ers who have posted here for showing a little restraint in their comments, I'm sure we all have an arsenal of derisive comments for Damixa at this point, all of which can only lower ourselves to their level.
I think Damixa has only demonstrated their ignorance of the cloud-sourced design exercise. Clients should never expect a complete design study unless every element is precisely defined; usually outside the scope of conceptual design. To say they haven't found anything that meets their needs is strange, surely they could amalgamate a working design from elements of the numerous and varied submissions?
No worries though, we're an international community of skilled and connected individuals, there will be consequences. I may not know much about bathroom/kitchen fixtures and their manufacturers, but I now know one thing, Damixa won't be seeing the inside of any of my, or my friends', future establishments. Worth the $1500 Damixa? I think not.
Andrey Jasiukaitis over 1 year ago
I agree with William about money donation to kids. It would be a perfect Christmas gift from grabcad users.
Chris Duncan over 1 year ago
Bravo William for what you did. You restore my faith in people after the CCO at Damixa tried to ruin it!! You hang in there and keep Cad-ing, you'll only get better as you go. You deserve some kind of Kudos for the way you support this site. Something more than a T-shirt, they need awards for people with as much positive support as you give this site.
I think there's a silver lining to this Damixa cloud, things are going to shake out and only get better.
There's some really good comments in this thread. Agree that we should not stoop to Damixa's level. But I do think we need to somehow send a message that this was not right.
Aaron over 1 year ago
I've witnessed situations like this before. It usually ends where the company in question just got $100k or more of design time for free along with the next 5-10 designs to put on the shelf. That's some extremely big ego when you can go through over 300 designs from some of the best artistic and engineering minds all over the world and not see anything you like. I've never worked for a company where that even COULD happen.
Aaron over 1 year ago
Probably not a bad idea to watch for new Damixa designs to come out. If you see something familiar, you own it. Since no one was paid or contracted for the work, that design/engineering idea belongs to the designer who posted it up. Not sure how intellectual property laws are handled overseas, but in the states it's a big deal.
Hevi over 1 year ago
William has a very very good idea with the charity option. Let's do this :)
This voting is some kind not fair - for me. I wrote "why" before but more thing that there are some "private" designs. We don't see them, maybe they are great? Maybe not...
GrabCAD Team - what we can do? You should think about that and listen to people :)
Maarten_Dominicus over 1 year ago
Does grabcad only pay out the 1st prize?
Or also 2nd 3rd 4th and so on?
Hevi over 1 year ago
Just 1st prize... you need more "like's" and the min. of likes is "50" as I remember...
Josef Snabb over 1 year ago
Well, some comments above they said "The good news is that the winners will get the prices promised" so obviously they stick to all prices, not only one.
I think there are many good ideas here about solutions to this situation but Grabcad has announced their solution and will probably stick with it, would also be a mess to change again I think. Let the best entries win and hopefully this won´t ever happen again. With kind regards
William over 1 year ago
I do hope you are right that this will never happen again with another company as it has took the shine away from this comp
Josef.
:)
Pierre over 1 year ago
??
Maarten_Dominicus
it's possible ? four models have a lot of "like" but no comments ?..
Tom Kirkup CADT over 1 year ago
who's to say they have not used some of these designs in there products? and just not paid out. free R&D for damixa
Hevi over 1 year ago
@Pierre - don't u see? It's outstanding design and concept ;) just invate all of your friends from Facebook and you are the winner :)
Hevi over 1 year ago
...or maybe... why to invate them? create them by yourself... just check some design and comments; lot of users are from the same place on the google map... no comment
Pierre over 1 year ago
Hahaha yep Hevi, i think the same !! -_- but how chek that ?! Pfff
Hevi over 1 year ago
GrabCAD team should do that... now I don't care who gonna win because ppl are cheating. I can make 50-100 emails, then 100 GrabCAD accounts and hit LIKE for my designs... 1 day and I'm the winner :)
Everyone needs money, everyone have some cool things to do... but... come on! ...no cheating...
Carco over 1 year ago
I don´t understand anything yet... May be by to be spanish and don´t dominate the english lenguage, but I´m really worry with this strange situation...
If GrabCad doesn´t form a jury with the 9 first designers, for example, because the number 10 is me, or something similar that can be a bit more serious, I wish that they make all this tshirts and end of this unpleasant history for one time, please.
Many people here needs the money, me the first, of course, and it isn´t very good for our relations and our moral that someone can do traps or dirty work.
Please, you, GrabCad, need search a satisfactory way to do it or simply do not.
Regards at all and sorry if I´ve bothered to someone.
Handshake at all ;)
Carco over 1 year ago
Now that I see that my friend William has eliminated their competition models, I think if it would be that the best, at least morally.
I don't like anything that's happening nor the comments I'm reading from a few days ago.
We are really missing, gentlemen... This is a real shame for the entire community, even for those who are not engineers.
ZBH over 1 year ago
For sure we all hope any of our design could win.but face the fact that we've been cheated.lets be more careful guys.and,challenges always make us better right.i didn't care much about the prize.just love the challenge.and i hate cheaters.
JS over 1 year ago
Hevi, I hope that's not directed at me. I can assure you that I am not registering emails/accounts in my favor. It would behoove you to take a look at the links directly under the "LIKE" button on the page in terms of promotion of your designs which are all great.
-Js
Hevi over 1 year ago
JS - Sorry, no! It's not you... ;] (big beer for you)
The whole situation is getting stupid and... funny... you can see what ppl can do for $600 ;) ...I'm glad that is just internet and not a real world... in a real world there was dead bodies ;) and the winner with $600 in hands :D
JS over 1 year ago
Lol Big beers right back at ya!
Hevi over 1 year ago
JS - I have realize something :) ...can you imagine what ppl can do for $2000? =) (Sovella contest) LoL
JS over 1 year ago
The people would come out of the woodwork. The reality is it would actually be positive for the site because I can only imagine the traffic it would drum up. At that time I know it would be cheaper then a full fledged PR campaign. Its all how you look at it.
Carco over 1 year ago
Woodwork???
Carco over 1 year ago
LIKE's smell very bad.
Nobody will do anything really?
Hevi over 1 year ago
What you can do? You can create more GrabCAD accounts then others LOL :) And just hit "like" button like crazy ;)
We will see what GC Team will do :]
Carco over 1 year ago
Yes, we must wait since Staff work about it ;)
Hevi over 1 year ago
Let's vote to add another button "Kill user" :D JOKING ;]
Johannes Alderse Baas over 1 year ago
I'm really interested in the outcome of all this.
If the people with the most likes get the prize money it would be extremely unfair... (obviously) ?
Will this be really the way to go?
I agree on the charity ;)
William over 1 year ago
Damixa have really messed with this community and it is a shame as now there is members thinking these is foul play going on here. In no way is this comment directed @ any one of any model but this is just not a fair comp now. I really feel so strong about this and for this situation to have a little shine put back into it. The prize money should go to charity. That would be the gentleman thing to do.
ZBH over 1 year ago
2 thumbs up
Pierre over 1 year ago
http://grabcad.com/library/damixa-tap-entry-4
hahaha 90 likes, 4 comments but new profile with 0 model upload ....hhmmmmmm... plzzz
Pierre over 1 year ago
and one comment for each profil xD, seriously......
Hevi over 1 year ago
They should get another $600 for their extra work... I mean creating new accounts on GrabCAD ;) It take sometime to create account, find avatar etc etc
Fateh MERRAD over 1 year ago
there is traffic in this competition 91 Likes in one day!!!!!
Hevi over 1 year ago
Nooooo.... only 91 likes in one day? You ppl can do better ;) You need to believe in yourself :D
Pierre over 1 year ago
xD
William over 1 year ago
This is why this is not a competition any more :(((
The honourable solution to this mess would be to donate the winnings to charity.
I am now glad I withdrew my model from this competition when I did as to see this going on within such a great community makes me sad.
Carco over 1 year ago
I just decide to retire the "contest" Damixa also.
I'm seeing that, although I am without a job for almost two years and I have no money, there are many other people which seems to be that you need more than me. So it is better to withdraw and leave them to earn his award with the traps that create appropriate. I hope that in successive competitions are they able to send all the necessary models, because I very much doubt that present none.
A salute to all the good guys who are still in GrabCad.
Carco over 1 year ago
When the contest finished, I'll make public the models for the people can download them, if they wish.
Handshake ;)
William over 1 year ago
I take my hat of to you Carcoma a true honourable Gentleman that you are
//Handshake with respect to your decision.
:)))))
Jonathan Buhl over 1 year ago
i have deleted my entry.
I think this has been as waste of time for so many of us and i think the only real way for damixa to finish this is if they pay up.
if they dont want to use the concepts that is up to them, but denying to pay and just quit like this is not very professional.
I personally am quite annoyed by this - especially since we dident even get an apollogy fra Damixa
Robert Guyser over 1 year ago
All I am going to say is that the entire 'contest' model of 'getting work done' is fraught with peril for everyone involved except the so called 'client' who is going to get a huge amount of branded work for pennies an hour.
Even if they dont like any of the 300 designs here, some of which are simply great, they still have 300 designs they can now refer to and use in their own development efforts.
It is astounding they would do this over $1500.... Totally lacks anything even remotely like professionalism, respect, or respectability.
William over 1 year ago
//Handshake to Jonathan :))))) total respect to you.
and I could not agree more with what you have said Robert.
:)
smmoosavian over 1 year ago
I didn't read all of the comments. what happened to this challenge ? who is the winner ?
Josef Snabb over 1 year ago
They have announced that on their blog:
http://blog.grabcad.com/2011/12/grabcad-damixa-challenge-vote-for-the-winner/
So the winners will be presented later on today.
Josef Snabb over 1 year ago
About the discussions of the suspiciousness of cheating in the voting process, I have been in contact with staff on Grabcad and they was going to check entry likes and profiles created during the voting process to avoid potential cheating.
Let the best entries win! =)
Kaspar Kiis over 1 year ago
GrabCAD has announced the winners. Due to the cheating by some of the users the winners were chosen by most likes done before 12th December- just before it was announced in GrabCAD blog.
Congratulations to all the winners and thank you for everybody who participated in the contest.
Kaspar Kiis over 1 year ago
Sorry, I make a small correction. We counted likes done by users registered into GrabCAD before 12th December 2011. This will eliminate the likes by users who created an account to give likes to their own model.
Nuno Felix over 1 year ago
Congrats to the winner!!
Hevi over 1 year ago
Congratulations to all the winners...
Hevi over 1 year ago
@Kaspar Kiis - we will get emails or something like that?
John B over 1 year ago
I am glad that this "issue" got resolved and the more honourable outcome was chosen. @William, i agree whole heartedly that the most gentlemen-like thing would be to donate the prize money to those kids who have nothing in order to give them a better christmas. That just struck home to me and absolutely melted my heart :) William, i have so much respect for you, you are probably my favorite engineer/cad user on this amazing site.
Also congrats on the win :)))
mustafa zorlu over 1 year ago
According to the results on where we know
Chris Duncan over 1 year ago
Since almost all the users that commented said it shouldn't be a popularity contest.
From a purely clinical perspective I say this entry was the clear winner. It met all the requirements of the contest. Very few of all the entries did so.
Concept: Joint Touch
John Huizingh over 1 year ago
Chris: which requirements do you mean: ?? This is the first sentence of the challenge:
There are no hard requirements, Be creative and show what you can come up with
Chris Duncan over 1 year ago
John: No "hard" requirements does not mean "no" requirements
what is better the creative design that meets all the requirements,
or the one that does not?
this reminds me of the fashion industry, it's not what you know
it's who you know.
1.Compatible with the ARC line.
2.One handle mixer
3.Innovative
4.Functionality
5. Ergonomics.
6. Follow Danish line
7. User friendly
It's not that hard to meet at least some of the requirements and
still be creative
It's not that big a deal really, ;>) I just think all the valid entries that
got closer to the actual requirements should be at least acknowledged
John Huizingh over 1 year ago
Yes I agree, but then we are getting in the personal opinions quickly I think. Because for example for the entry you mentioned I could agree with you on some requirements in your list but also for some a lot less. But like I said, that is my opinion.
smmoosavian over 1 year ago
weren't some rules for the challenge ? There are many other good models which can win the contest. It is not fair. I don't tell my design is good enough to win the match. but I saw the winner models , and I didn't see any respectfulness to rules.
Marios Pazaitis over 1 year ago
So did the winner donnate the prize money to charity? lol!
William over 1 year ago
Hi Marios I have not received the prize yet but when I do I will be given it to charity.
It is the right thing to do given the circumstances of this competition.
It is just as well GrabCAD and there staff are so professional how they went about and delt with this comp. Unlike Damixa that caused this great community to go up in arms.
:)))))
Ryan Marshall over 1 year ago
how do I find out who won and which model won?
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