{"id":287,"date":"2011-06-24T11:19:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/unicycle"},"modified":"2011-06-24T11:19:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:19:51","slug":"unicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/06\/unicycle.html","title":{"rendered":"Unicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2014e895b4b5c970d.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Unicycle\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2014e895b4b5c970d\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2014e895b4b5c970d-800wi.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Unicycle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea for the unicycle came from a friend who thought it would be a cool thing to make using SolidWorks.&#0160; After making it, I think I have to agree that it was a good choice.&#0160; I figure that if later on I want to make a bicycle, I can use some of the same parts like the wheel and the pedals.&#0160; I used circular patterns on the wheel for the spokes and the treads.&#0160; For the grip on the pedals, I used fill patterns in order to fill the area.&#0160; This model was created in SolidWorks 2011; if you have an earlier version of SolidWorks you can go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dcontentcentral.com\/parts\/download-Part.aspx?id=262038&amp;catalogid=171\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Unicycle\">here<\/a> to 3D Content Central to download the model for your version.&#0160; I hope you 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-6a00d83451706569e20154333b5189970c\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.typepad.com\/files\/unicycle.zip\">Download Unicycle<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea for the unicycle came from a friend who thought it would be a cool thing to make using SolidWorks.&#0160; After making it, I think I have to agree that it was a good choice.&#0160; I figure that if<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/06\/unicycle.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":1891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3930,4777,3931,4996,4997],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cad","tag-circular-pattern","tag-solidworks","tag-unicycle","tag-wheel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}