{"id":194,"date":"2012-03-08T20:46:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T01:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/pepper-grinder"},"modified":"2012-03-08T20:46:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T01:46:30","slug":"pepper-grinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2012\/03\/pepper-grinder.html","title":{"rendered":"Pepper Grinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201676394e8fe970b.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pepper Grinder\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201676394e8fe970b\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201676394e8fe970b-800wi.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Pepper Grinder\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inspiration for this post came during dinner with my family.&#0160; This project seemed to be fairly straight forward, however once I got going I realized that the bottom grinding mechanism was harder to figure out then I first thought.&#0160; For the grinding mechanism I decided to use two tapered gear-like parts.&#0160; They were created by making a tapered cylinder and then lofting between sketches on the top and bottom faces.&#0160; The single loft was then circular patterned.&#0160; The center grinding wheel, as well as the top cap, both have square holes cut into them so that a square shaft connects them.&#0160; This allows the top to be rotated, transferring the rotary motion to the grinder.&#0160; The three main parts of the body were made using revolve features.&#0160; A little creativity was needed to come up with a system to hold the gears in place.&#0160; Download the model below to get a closer look at how I did it.&#0160; Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Ian Jutras<\/p>\n<p>Worcester Polytechnic Institute<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Engineering 2013<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20168e895fbd8970c\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.typepad.com\/files\/pepper-grinder.zip\">Download Pepper Grinder<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inspiration for this post came during dinner with my family.&#0160; This project seemed to be fairly straight forward, however once I got going I realized that the bottom grinding mechanism was harder to figure out then I first thought.&#0160;<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2012\/03\/pepper-grinder.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":1408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4015],"tags":[3930,4642,4792,4793,4703,3931],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mechanical-engineering","tag-cad","tag-loft","tag-pepper-grinder","tag-pepper-shaker","tag-revolve","tag-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}