Task: Create a check valve
- Right clicking on the icon and selecting Copy.
- Then right clicking in the blank area and selecting Paste.
- Rename the new valve. Right click on the icon, select Rename and type “Check Valve”.
- Now let’s edit the valve by right clicking on our new check valve and selecting Edit.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Now on the Dimensions tab set Diameter #3 to Equal.
- Enter the valve is 4 in Left Length.
- On our open length, let’s rename that to Branch Length and set it to 4.41.
- Our handle dimensions all will be 0 because we don’t have a handle.
- The Collar I will set to the thickness of a 2” flange, 0.69.
- Our Body Length let’s set that to a calculation of Branch Length*2 and lock the cell.
- Set the Body Diameter to 4.75 and Box dimensions to 0..
- See how it looks by clicking the Redraw button
- Set Shaft Diameter Below Handle and Shaft Diameter #3 to 6 the diameter of a 2” flange.
- 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.
- We are going to move the flange cap by putting a calculation into the Bonnet Y offset.
- 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.
- Now right click on the Isometric view and select Save as Icon. Click OK and now we have our check valve.