{"id":701,"date":"2010-02-01T20:57:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T01:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/a-mighty-wind-world"},"modified":"2010-02-01T20:57:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T01:57:46","slug":"a-mighty-wind-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/02\/a-mighty-wind-world.html","title":{"rendered":"A mighty wind @ World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">When a hurricane tore the roof off a customer\u2019s plant,<br \/>\nrecalls Jason Williams, all that remained intact<br \/>\nwere some steel girders and an industrial fan \u2013 a Big Ass fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>Please pardon the language, but that\u2019s not us cussin\u2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigassfans.com\/\">Big Ass Fans<\/a> is the name of Williams\u2019<br \/>\nemployer and the fast-growing maker of industrial and commercial fans that<br \/>\ncustomers ask for by name.&#0160;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In a chat at SolidWorks World 2010, Williams said his company&#39;s machines can span more than 20 feet in diameter and<br \/>\nweigh more than 300 pounds. When the blades start turning, all manner of torsional<br \/>\nforces arise. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Roscony\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"twitter link\">Williams<\/a>, the company\u2019s product design engineer, uses SolidWorks<br \/>\nSimulation to ensure the enormous air movers hold up.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, in that hurricane? A competitor&#39;s fan wilted<br \/>\nlike a <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dlDLQA\" title=\"The visual evidence\">daisy<\/a>.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>More from Jason:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><object height=\"340\" width=\"560\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FRmAdfU7US4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FRmAdfU7US4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a hurricane tore the roof off a customer\u2019s plant, recalls Jason Williams, all that remained intact were some steel girders and an industrial fan \u2013 a Big Ass fan. Please pardon the language, but that\u2019s not us cussin\u2019. Big<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/02\/a-mighty-wind-world.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}