GrabCAD Community User Group

What are the ads based on? Random third party ads?

I firmly believe nothing worthwhile is ever free. I'm sure the cost of operating a website such as this is not trivial. I see this as a good thing as long as the ads remain relevant and the revenue mostly supports and enhances the GC community.

Rather than "the same Community experience", I would expect the revenue stream to bring commensurate improvements.

We use Google AdSense. By default your see personalised ads based on your interests. You can learn how to configure it from the following Google's support article:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/2662856

This seems like the beginning of the end of a great resource. For those of us that have had their fill of advertisements, how about adding a subscription based section, that shuts off these ads for those of us that don't want to see them?

Noooooooo(

Dear Community Members, right from the beginning our goal was to design and implement advertising to be as unobtrusive as possible.

Hence please be informed that we've reviewed and blocked quite a few ads categories (like Politics, Cosmetic Procedures, Religion and many more) from displaying on our website.

We'll continue managing the type of ads that appear on our site that are most suitable for our audience. Please contact me in case of any suggestions or concerns. Thank you!

It's been a little over a year now and the advertising dollars that were to enhance GC and support additional team members have no doubt been flowing in. However any GC enhancement and support of the GC community has yet to visibly materialize. If anything, support and the website in general seem to be stagnant. There is no active support of the community. Support seems to be mostly passive with automatic filters that block some spam. I am quite certain that no GC team member is actively reviewing library posts and forums on a regular basis. Direct support remains reactionary to user reporting and GC community posts and even that seems sporadic.

The advertising was "sold" to the users as a means to enhance the GC community. It was not sold as a means to just maintain the status-quo. While I still support the advertising revenue for GC enhancement, I must wonder when this enhancement is actually going to materialize.

A year has gone by and the responses from the GrabCAD team have dropped to about zero in spite of any additional revenue you may be getting.

Reports of spam and inappropriate content are largely ignored. Occasionally, posts to these forums get responses.

When will the promise of increased staff support actually manifest itself? Or is it just not going to happen?

bonjour à vous tous chers amis, tout d’abord je suis heureux de vous contacter sur un véritable paradis du dessin technique, je suis un technicien supérieur en fabrication mécanique et j’aime les idées industrielles dans mon domaine. mais dommage que je n’ai pas d’atelier ou autres, je suis au chômage et j’ai profité de l’amélioration de mes compétences, de mes connaissances, pour toujours je suis en contact avec la technologie moderne dans le monde, et merci pour vous tous chers amis, ingénieurs.

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Rather ironic that GrabCAD advertisements are for content possibly stolen off of GrabCAD. In other words, GrabCAD is profiting from stolen content.

I know you don't have total control over the advertising. But still...

https://grabcad.com/library/3d-printable-high-bypass-jet-engine-1