{"id":292,"date":"2011-06-09T07:40:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T11:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/light-bulb"},"modified":"2011-06-09T07:40:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T11:40:45","slug":"light-bulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/06\/light-bulb.html","title":{"rendered":"Light Bulb in SolidWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2015432e0b4dc970c.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Light Bulb\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2015432e0b4dc970c\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2015432e0b4dc970c-800wi.jpg\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Light Bulb\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was wondering what to make when I had a bright idea.  Why don\u2019t I make something that helps everyone see every day? Sooo, I decided to make a light bulb.  The hardest thing to make was the filament because it is a helix around circle.  The best way I found to create the filament was to use a sweep feature with a twist along path orientation.  I also used directional and point lights in order to make the bulb look like it is on. The light bulb can also be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dcontentcentral.com\/Download-Model.aspx?catalogid=171&amp;id=261669#\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Light Bulb\">here<\/a> at 3D content central.<\/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-6a00d83451706569e2015432e0bb5f970c\"> <span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2015432e0c333970c\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.typepad.com\/files\/light-bulb.zip\">Download Light bulb<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering what to make when I had a bright idea. Why don\u2019t I make something that helps everyone see every day? Sooo, I decided to make a light bulb. The hardest thing to make was the filament because<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/06\/light-bulb.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4015],"tags":[3930,5010,5005,5008,5009,3931,5006,5007],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mechanical-engineering","tag-cad","tag-directional-light","tag-light-bulb","tag-lights","tag-point-light","tag-solidworks","tag-sweep-feature","tag-twist-along-path"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}