{"id":230,"date":"2011-10-17T15:44:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T19:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/mechanical-rocking-chair-in-solidworks"},"modified":"2011-10-17T15:44:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T19:44:22","slug":"mechanical-rocking-chair-in-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/10\/mechanical-rocking-chair-in-solidworks.html","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical Rocking Chair in SolidWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201539246d7b7970b.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rocking Chair\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201539246d7b7970b image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e201539246d7b7970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Rocking Chair\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Form takes a bit of a backseat to function today as we explore a practical application of linkage design.&#0160; This linkage-operated (and motor-driven) rocking chair allows people with physical disabilities to experience the healing and comforting motion of a traditional \u201cBoston\u201d rocker.&#0160; Move the shortest link to see the chair rock.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>I used an assembly layout sketch to simulate the six-bar linkage (which I created using a compass and straightedge on paper) before modeling the device in a traditional assembly. This provided a quick confirmation that the linkage operated to my liking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20154361a8517970c.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rocking Chair\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20154361a8517970c image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20154361a8517970c-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Rocking Chair\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for viewing!<\/p>\n<p>Dave Knight<\/p>\n<p>Worcester Polytechnic Institute<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Engineering, 2013<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20154361a865f970c\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.typepad.com\/files\/rocking-chair-layout.zip\">Download Rocking Chair Layout<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201539246e236970b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.typepad.com\/files\/rocking-chair.zip\">Download Rocking Chair<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Form takes a bit of a backseat to function today as we explore a practical application of linkage design.&#0160; This linkage-operated (and motor-driven) rocking chair allows people with physical disabilities to experience the healing and comforting motion of a traditional<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/10\/mechanical-rocking-chair-in-solidworks.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":1545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4015,5219],"tags":[4884,4403,4887,4882,4642,4458,4883,4885,3931],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mechanical-engineering","category-robotics-2","tag-boston-rocker","tag-kinematics","tag-layout-assembly","tag-linkage","tag-loft","tag-planes","tag-rocking-chair","tag-six-bar","tag-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}