The results are in for Cad Crowd’s COVID-19 product design and 3D printing challenge.
COVID-19 has temporarily altered acceptable parameters of society at large in every country around the world. Self-quarantining, social distancing and wearing masks in public have become normal. The 3D printing community writ large responded to the crisis with new designs for masks, ventilator conversion components, swabs for testing and other personal protective equipment (PPE). As different geographic areas begin to reopen in phases, focusing on products to help keep public spaces sanitized and clean is the latest challenge.
Cad Crowd’s Coronavirus Challenge
Startup platform Cad Crowd recently held an open-source design contest to “generate product designs that help prevent the spread of COVID-19.” The call for the 3D community to create new products and 3D designs to help keep the public safe from COVID-19 came at just the right time, and the results are in.
Using a hybrid system of peer reviews and internal review, Cad Crowd encouraged its community to vote on the designs members felt were the best, suggesting that users without the means to view CAD files look at them through Autodesk Viewer.
Each design entry was submitted with images in a neutral file format and users were asked to upload their entries into Cad Crowd’s CAD library.
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Bottom Line
As people slowly return to work, restaurants and other public spaces, innovative designs from the 3D printing community to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 could turn into everyday products. To see more winners of Cad Crowd’s Coronavirus Challenge, click here.
For even more COVID-19 projects from the maker community, check out the new Make: Projects platform from Make: and engineering.com.