[CAD] Novel Multi-Path Kitchen Sink Strainer (Open Design Magazine / 2023)
<p>Tired of food debris blocking your kitchen sink? We all are, making this an excellent opportunity to look at novel ways to manage the dirty water outflow (often carrying clutering debris).</p><p>The present model is an open source design of a multi-path strainer whose purpose is to address the recurrent problem of food debris blocking kitchen sinks. This multi-path strainer accommodates design features that store food debris in special 360 degree cavities, while preveting complete blockage. The horizontal water path is the primary way to carry water to the outlet, whilst preventing debris from blocking completely the water flow. If this horizontal path gets blocked (by soo much debris that covers the entire 360 degrees of cavities), water will accummulate and overflow via the vertical path, providing an alternative means of discharge, and thus preventing overall blockage of the sink.</p><p>This research was published as an article on the <a href="https://opendesignmagazine.pubpub.org/pub/1hzh92zy/release/5" target="_blank">Open Design Magazine</a> hosted by the MIT PubPub open source publication platform.</p><p>Anybody can online 3D print it at a reasonable price (including posting) using services like <a href="https://craftcloud3d.com/" target="_blank">Craftcloud</a> and <a href="https://www.hubs.com/" target="_blank">Hubs</a>, with just a few clicks (you need to upload the STEP file). These are not the only ones, and a quick search in the internet will show the most convenient 3D printing service clostest to you. Some of the materials that can be selected are SLS, Aluminium and Stainless Steel.</p><p>The design work was done with the open source software <a href="http://www.freecad.org/" target="_blank">FreeCAD</a>. The movie was made in the open source software <a href="http://www.blender.org/" target="_blank">Blender</a>. Advanced rendering was complete using open source <a href="http://www.opencascade.com/products/cad-rays" target="_blank">CADRays from OpenCascade</a> (Windows only). On Linux, download the <a href="https://git.dev.opencascade.org/gitweb/" target="_blank">source code</a>. You need both the occt.git and the cadrays.git repositories. Both use <a href="https://opensource.com/article/21/5/cmake" target="_blank">cmake</a>, so the compilation process is the usual Cmake incantation:</p><p></p><pre>$ mkdir build<br>$ cd build<br>$ cmake ..<br>$ make<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</pre><p>For more public data, please visit my Figshare profile: <a href="https://figshare.com/authors/Luis_Teia/10811244" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://figshare.com/authors/Luis_Teia/10811244</a></p><p></p>
