{"id":219,"date":"2011-12-18T09:46:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T14:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/fire-sprinkler"},"modified":"2011-12-18T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T14:46:24","slug":"fire-sprinkler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/12\/fire-sprinkler.html","title":{"rendered":"Fire Sprinkler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20162fdb597b5970d.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fire Sprinkler\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20162fdb597b5970d image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20162fdb597b5970d-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Fire Sprinkler\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;For this post I made a fire sprinkler thanks to the suggestion of one of my friends who is studying fire protection.&#0160; The base sprinkler head was made using some boss extrudes.&#0160; The threads were made by using a helix and then sweeping it with a triangle. &#0160;The bottom end was trimmed so that the threads would not extend beyond the base.&#0160; The nozzle in the base was created by using a revolve feature.&#0160; The goal behind this was that the water would increase in pressure due to the nozzle effect.&#0160; The top support for the water diffuser was created using extrudes and a swept feature.&#0160; The boss extrude on top that is used for the screw was made using a plane that was tangent to the top arc and parallel to the top plane.&#0160; The water diffuser started as a simple revolve feature.&#0160; The cuts around the edge were made by drawing a triangle on a plane that was offset from the revolve feature.&#0160; This through all cut was then patterned around the entire part.&#0160; The glass part is a two bodied part.&#0160; The first one is the glass bulb using a revolve feature.&#0160; The internal fluid is also created with a revolve feature but then colored to look like a liquid.&#0160; The screw was brought in from the SolidWorks tool box.&#0160; I hope you enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/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-6a00d83451706569e201675ea96f3e970b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.typepad.com\/files\/fire-sprinkler.zip\">Download Fire Sprinkler<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;For this post I made a fire sprinkler thanks to the suggestion of one of my friends who is studying fire protection.&#0160; The base sprinkler head was made using some boss extrudes.&#0160; The threads were made by using a helix<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/12\/fire-sprinkler.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":1505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4015],"tags":[3930,4821,4841,3931,4840,4386,4842],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mechanical-engineering","tag-cad","tag-fire-sprinkler","tag-hole-wizard","tag-solidworks","tag-sprinkler","tag-sweep","tag-threads"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","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=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}