Sovella Table Design Challenge Attracts 101 Models - GrabCAD Blog

GrabCAD challenge enables industrial furniture designer Sovella to quickly attract 101 submissions from our brilliant engineers! Below we showcase the winning designs which earned the engineers almost $4,000 Sovella has been designing and manufacturing configurable and modular industrial furniture since 1876. They needed a table-height adjustment mechanism with a 400mm range and a maximum weight capacity of 500kg, and they needed it quick. Sovella posted a challenge on GrabCAD and our amazing community of engineers nailed the project! Sovella representative Erkki Kiviniemi was impressed with the vast number of entries and with the new ideas and concepts generated. Without further ado, here are the winners (with Erkki's comments): First Prize (2000 USD): Sovella Concept #1 by GrabCAD engineer Chris Duncan  According to Sovella: "Our existing structure is easy to modify according to this idea. Idea to improve crank adjustability and the “storage” position of the crank is good. Duncan has sent many other proposals and he has made also good calculations from needed using power." Second Prize (1000 USD): Sovella Concept #2 by GrabCAD engineer Tomek F "Solution is simple and the compact mechanism is easy to put in small space. Also crank position on table top is good idea." […]