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Zoo

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Zoo

@zoodotdev

Modern CAD software for the AI era.

Joined April 2021

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@zoodotdev
Jun 4
Congratulations to our Makeathon winners! 🏆 We're excited to showcase the incredible projects that stood out. Meet the winners and learn what earned them the top spots in this thread… 🧵 1st - @masonmalone 2nd - @randyzwitch 3rd - @benwithhat “You’re Hired!” - Daniel Revier
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SF Deep Tech Week starts in less than two weeks. There is 70 events on the calendar and the world's leading founders, everything from Fusion energy, Manufacturing, Defense, and the CEO's of publicly traded companies. Folks like @aphysicist building the future of manufacturing
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How cute is this playful cat-themed tabletop shelf by our co-founder @Jenna_Bryant? It's perfect for organizing small items on a bathroom counter, closet shelf, desk, vanity, or nightstand. Perfect for skincare, perfumes, accessories, makeup, or tiny treasures. 🌊 View it in our
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Jun 9
You can now extrude surfaces! Create open surfaces in Zoo Design Studio for surface modeling workflows. zoo.dev/docs/zoo-desig…
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Check out this simple, reliable boring cutter holder for 7x10 mini lathes made by Nadro on our team! 📐Explore the design here: zoo.dev/aquarium/9f1be…
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Jun 5
Guide your geometry exactly where it needs to go. Use Sweep in Zoo Design Studio to carry a profile along a path as an open surface. Ideal for guide surfaces, routed geometry, and path-driven forms that will be refined later. 🛠️ Learn more: zoo.dev/docs/zoo-desig…
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Huge congratulations to all of the winners, and genuinely, thank you to everyone who participated. Seeing what this community built was inspiring, and we’re already excited for the next one!
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Jun 4
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🐱 Best in Show: “Geometric Style Cat 3D” The undisputed community favorite. This adorable geometric cat by @ijihu282333 completely won over everyone’s hearts, and honestly, it feels a little serendipitous given our original company name was KittyCAD. Check it out in our
Zoo: Geometric Style Cat 3D Modeling
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Jun 4
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🧳 The “You’re Hired!” Award: “Aviator Glasses” Yes… we literally created a new category for this one by Daniel Revier, with our very sincere hope that Daniel would consider interviewing to work with us. The custom bspline library absolutely wowed our engineering team,
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Zoo: Aviator Frames Design Toolkit
This project is a demonstration of high-fidelity, mirror-symmetric, organic CAD design in KCL, centered on the iconic Aviator Frame. Rather than simply delivering a static model, the goal was to...
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Jun 4
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🥉 3rd Place: “3 Blade Foldable Drone Rotor” The level of thoroughness here by @benwithhat was seriously impressive. The electric motor assembly was detailed, functional, and thoughtfully constructed. It felt like a real engineering project with a ton of care put into making the
Zoo: 3-Blade Foldable Drone Rotor
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Jun 4
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🥈 2nd Place: “Acoustic Guitar Body” Anyone who has worked with our super special tangent arcs knows they can be extremely difficult to make our solver happy with, and this project by @randyzwitch handled them beautifully. We also loved the use of equation-driven design and
Zoo: Acoustic Guitar Body
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Jun 4
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🥇 1st Place: “Mersenne’s Clavichord” This project by @masonmalone took advantage of an incredible amount of the platform’s functionality, including custom string sizing via KCL, a highly unique software capability. It’s a reconstruction of a clavichord described by Marin
Zoo: Mersenne's Clavichord
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Randy Zwitch
@randyzwitch
Jun 4
The start of a printer farm, courtesy of @zoodotdev and my 2nd place Makeathon showing 😎💪🥳
Randy Zwitch
@randyzwitch
Jun 4
Getting my new 3D printer today, which is a huge step up from some bad news this morning (neighborhood-wise, not me personally)
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