{"id":637,"date":"2010-06-28T11:09:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T15:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/of-snow-and-tarmac"},"modified":"2010-06-28T11:09:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T15:09:52","slug":"of-snow-and-tarmac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/06\/of-snow-and-tarmac.html","title":{"rendered":"Of snow and tarmac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Although it\u2019s sweltering in New England, Shawn Watling\u2019s mind<br \/>\nis on ice and snow. The Canadian snow machine racer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/news\/702_9449_ENU_HTML.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SolidWorks news release\">SolidWorks user<\/a> has<br \/>\njust won a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/diy\/article\/2010-05\/invention-awwards-faster-safer-snowmobiling\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Popular Science article\">Popular Science Award<\/a> for inventing a way to make sleds faster,<br \/>\ngreener, and more agile. His patent-pending Rear Axle Drive track technology, among other things, moves a snowmobile\u2019s propulsion axle to the rear to put more power directly to the ground. Click on this image to check it out in action:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;\">&#0160;&#0160;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j65fE7sYN_Q\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href,&#39;_blank&#39;,&#39;scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39;); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snow machine1\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20133f1e787c1970b image-full \" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20133f1e787c1970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Snow machine1\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <\/span><br \/> <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A rendering of the RAD design in SolidWorks:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20133f1e78476970b.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sept 10_photo render complete assembly_studio with fill lights_close up with transparency\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20133f1e78476970b image-full \" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20133f1e78476970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Sept 10_photo render complete assembly_studio with fill lights_close up with transparency\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watling is in talks with several<br \/>\nhousehold-name snowmobile makers interested in his work. In the meantime, he\u2019s installing<br \/>\nRAD on racing sleds that will attempt<br \/>\nthe Guinness world record for the snow machine quarter mile\u2026 on asphalt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it\u2019s sweltering in New England, Shawn Watling\u2019s mind is on ice and snow. The Canadian snow machine racer and SolidWorks user has just won a Popular Science Award for inventing a way to make sleds faster, greener, and more<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/06\/of-snow-and-tarmac.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":2877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories","tag-solidworks-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}