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NCLab CAD Challenge 2012 has finished! We received 84 designs from 8 countries. Not bad at all for the first year of the Contest. Big Thank You to Everyone for Participating! First place: Peter Cline (Monterey, CA) for the implementation of an entire font family for 3D printing. Second place: Andreas Kuhn (Stuttgart, Germany) for

3D printing makes learning geometry and solid modeling much more fun. That’s why NCLab is launching a new non-profit 3D printing service on Jan 1, 2013 – you pay just for material and shipping. Starting with Basic Plan, NCLab users can benefit from a complimentary non-profit 3D printing service that we have established to support

We are pleased to announce that NCLab 0.9 was released! Most changes that we made will facilitate further expansion of NCLab and they are invisible to the user. But there are also quite a few that you will notice. NCLab’s browser-based file system was completely redesigned and several new services and features were added. Here

Dear NCLab Users, the NCLab Team wishes you Merry Christmas and thanks you for your continued support. This time of year is relatively quiet in NCLab and therefore we are busy with testing, tuning, and upgrading. You may find the system down for maintenance from time to time. In January, you should see many improvements

  During an NCLab workshop in Ely, NV a chemistry teacher suggested that PLaSM could be used to create 3D models of molecules. Indeed it is very easy — see the screenshots. The project can be cloned via the File Manager’s Project -> Clone menu. Its name is Chemistry – Molecules -> Water.

  The NCLab textbook Introduction to Python Programming was turned into an open source project. The complete sources are available in the repository nclab-textbook-python on Github. The textbook comprises exercises and review questions, and it assumes no prior knowledge of programming. Many thanks to all contributors!

NCLab’s infrastructure is undergoing large changes at the moment. Most of them are related to the file system which is emulated using a distributed database. Most of this work will be invisible to the user, but it will have very positive effects on further NCLab development. And, some of these changes will be visible to

The 4th International Congress on Computational Engineering and Sciences will be held in Las Vegas on May 19 – 24, 2013. FEMTEC 2013 is the 4th event in a successful series of interdisciplineary international conferences. It promotes modern technologies and practices in scientific computing and visualization, and strengthens the interaction between researchers and practitioners in

We are giving away an iPad 3 for the best 3D design created in NCLab using PLaSM, NCLab’s free CAD library! PLaSM textbook can be downloaded here. For more information including deadlines, registration, evaluation criteria, and sample ideas for models visit NCLab High-School CAD Challenge Home Page. Download PDF flyer.

Based on user feedback, NCLab’s CAD language PLaSM was simplified and its original functional programming style was changed to standard procedural programming. We also eliminated as many brackets as possible and made the usage of some commands more intuitive. The changes go across the entire language. For example, the following original PLaSM command translates an