Use an existing item

Task: Create a check valve
  1. Right clicking on the icon and selecting Copy.
  2. Then right clicking in the blank area and selecting Paste.
  3. Rename the new valve. Right click on the icon, select Rename and type “Check Valve”.
  4. Now let’s edit the valve by right clicking on our new check valve and selecting Edit.
  5. Change the connector by first by selecting the Other tab and from the dropdown select your companies flat face 150# flange connector and you will see the 0.06 ridge of the raised face will disappear when we click on the Redraw button.
  6. On the Item tab, The Specification, Material, Cut Type, Bought Out, Service Type, all these happen to be the same, but you always want to check to make sure.
  7. The Options tab, setting Type, select the Value box by clicking on it, then click inside the box, then click again and it will change to Straight.
  8. Now on the Dimensions tab set Diameter #3 to Equal.
  9. Enter the valve is 4 in Left Length.
  10. On our open length, let’s rename that to Branch Length and set it to 4.41.
  11. Our handle dimensions all will be 0 because we don’t have a handle.
  12. The Collar I will set to the thickness of a 2” flange, 0.69.
  13. Our Body Length let’s set that to a calculation of Branch Length*2 and lock the cell.
  14. Set the Body Diameter to 4.75 and Box dimensions to 0..
  15. See how it looks by clicking the Redraw button
  16. Set Shaft Diameter Below Handle and Shaft Diameter #3 to 6 the diameter of a 2” flange.
  17. The Shaft Length #2, select “a” then clicking on the Calculation tab, clearing the Calculation box and selecting Collar #1 then typing “*2”. Then OK.
  18. We are going to move the flange cap by putting a calculation into the Bonnet Y offset.
  19. Click on “g” then clicking on the Calculation tab then in the Calculation box selecting Branch Length, then “-“, then selecting Shaft Length #2, then click OK. Select Calc in the Value box. Click Redraw.
  20. Now right click on the Isometric view and select Save as Icon. Click OK and now we have our check valve.
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