Who loves wooden gears? We do! We do! Wooden hand high five all around for a tool that helps you create the gears and the templates to crank those creations. The Gear template generator from woodgears.ca is a magical web-based tool (probably) using little wooden mathematical gears on the back end to output a 2D downloadable file, that you can also print, slap on a piece of cardboard, plywood, acrylic or other material and cut out.
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Form-Z 7 Prepares to Launch Parametric Modeling Point Blank in Your Face
AutoDesSys is peeling back the flexible underbelly of form-Z 7 and stuffing in a slew of new features. Form-Z has been around a while. It’s always had great features for architectural modeling, but this new version brings even more to the freeform table. New features increase the options you have for dynamic modeling of roofs and stairs and also deliver an array other geometry shaping goodness, including direct modeling with new parametric features, updated deformation tools and new NURBS functionality that makes fixing up those forms a lot easier. Here’s a look.
SolidWorks World KeyNote Speaker to Heat Things Up
Tony Fadell. You may have heard of him. At the very least, you’e seen, or let sweet sound emanate from the device he is know as the father of. Tony was Apple’s senior vice president of the iPod division as well as adviser to Steve Jobs. He’s now CEO of NEST, a company that reinventing the Thermostat, making it more intelligent and you more comfortable in your own abode while putting a lower impact on that electrical grid we can’t live without. He’s this year’s keynot speaker at SolidWorks World 2012.
Friday Smackdown: Larttle Chops
Vapor rolled from the jaw of the ice glazed face. There were literally hundreds spread throughout the forest floor. Some behind trees, other frozen mid-stride, and still others frolicking in the leaves, with all signs of mischief pointing to these links.
Mark Molnar – Concept art and illustration. Vehicles, characters, creatures and more are all in the mix.
Rescuetime – Where is your time going? What are you doing? Find out and get it under control.
Glacier fields – If ever you wanted to see big, fat photos of spectacular looking galcier fields, today is your day.
Onepager – Create a slick looking business website… on minutes.
Apocalypse Later, Surf Now – What would you do if the world were ending? Surf. This puts the end time epic in full cataclysmic perspective.
PressPausePlay – You give something to a human and they can make something with it. This excellent documentary explores art, creativity and how it has changed.
Dunhill Case – If you love fine, handcrafted goods and the sound of them being made, you will love this.
Atomic-Scale Memory Will Store All Your 3D Data (and More)
Moore’s Law (or rather Kryder’s Law) has just been decimated. Researchers at IBM just tore out those Wikipedia pages, sneered at them, then proceeded to show the world how five years of work has lead to new possibilities for mass data storage.
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Use This Vertical Mouse to Avoid Massive Arm Deformation
Before you say anything… Yes, I know. We’re about 10 years behind on the news of this mouse, but since we won’t need to use a mouse to move bits around in the near future, we might as well show you what mouse you could have been using all these year. The Evoluent Vertical Mouse. Even thought your spine is curving into your desk, this odd looking mouse has been proven by medical doctors, therapists and ergonomists to “promote a neutral wrist and forearm posture” and just look at it… You can go from mousing about to smashing something 10x faster and with less chance of injury by using it.
Sunglass.io: Web-based 3D Content Sharing and Collaboration
Quick, while everyone is distracted with the aftermath of CES, drop what you’re doing right now and have a look at sunglass.io immediately. Sunglass.io is a venture-backed MIT startup, based out of San Francisco, co-founded by Kaustuv DeBiswas and Nitin Rao. Today, they’ve launched Sunglass.io, a browser-based environment for seamless collaboration and soon, a suite of on-demand third-party 3D computation apps that can be run concurrently. These apps include surface dimnesioning, CFD analysis and 3D rendering.
Friday Smackdown: Bogrobamblobo
Buried amongst the thorns, winter long and cold, the bramble beast. Should the rope be torn from his pack fast enough, he may ride, but quick the beast is and torn not was his sheathed cord. Found there amidst briared air, he stood, breath stolen, as rose slow the the bramble beast dripping with these links.
Richard Dumont – Color and perspective with an amazing composition of structure and light. Just a few elements making Richard Dumont’s art simply wonderful.
LENR – Cold Fusion is here. NASA video talks about the future of energy… (oh, and what’s really going with alternative energy.)
10 Things to do with Twinkies – Hostess is going bankrupt, but that doesn’t mean Twinkies become any less useful.
Mr. Dictator Head – and other owrk by Stephen Ives (scroll through to see the dictator head action) via Neatorama.
E-Bugster – Not only is this a cool commercial, the new on the beetle from Volkswagon is looking mighty cool and mighty vicious as well.
Nitro Circus Trailer – Travis Pastran and the crew are bringing the car launching, face crushing, skin flaying action in 3D.
Get into SolidWorks World for Free… Be Quick About it.
How does jet setting over to San Diego sound? What if it involved sitting inside a conference center all day, absorbing vast amounts of knowledge about SolidWorks? I know my pasty white skin would appreciate that. SolidWorks World 2012 is coming up in a few weeks, and SolidWorks is interested in launching one of you over to San Diego for free. What’s the catch? Just drop by the SolidWorks blog and let them know what you create in SolidWorks. But you better hurry, there’s not much time left. Details after the jump!





