Effective Design and Manufacture of Valve using SOLIDWORKS

• Parametric 3D Modelling helps in maintaining the Design Intent of Valves.
• Completely Associative (Part, Assembly & Drawing) which reduces the most of time and effort during design revisions.
• Ease creation of Complex Shaped Valves with use of SOLIDWORKS Commands like Loft, Sweep, Boundary, Multi-body, Surface Tools, etc.,
• Creation and managing of similar valve components with various sizes, geometries, and features can be done with no time.
• In-built availability of Valve components which reduces design cycle time in assembling of Standard products
• Wide range of Standard material database is available and custom made material can also be incorporated
• Various attributes like Mass, Center of Gravity (C.O.G) can be evaluated based on the material property in a single click

• Easy collaboration with customer legacy data with a editable feature history tree
• Both internal and external Communication of CAD data becomes much easier through SolidWorks e-Drawings

 

• Integrated Mold design and productivity tools which helps in creation of molds for Valve Components with ease of creating Parting lines, Interlocks, Tool Splitting’s etc.,
• Insertion of Dimensions and Tolerances had become Automatic and User friendly with use of SOLIDWORKS Dimxpert.
• Agile process of pre-analysis for mold like Geometry Analysis, Symmetry Analysis, Thickness Analysis, and Draft Analysis helps in seamless creation and import of CAD data.
• Error free Assembly creation is possible with features like Interference Check, Hole Alignment, Clearance Check and Assembly Transparency.
• Animation of exploding an assembly can be captured and saved in a video format and the same can added as a view during detailing
• Manufacturing drawings can be generated automatically with PMI data
• Various tables like Bill of Materials (B.O.M), Weld table, Revision Table can be generated automatically

 

Do More than Just Visualize with Assembly Visualization

Ever since its introduction in SOLIDWORKS 2010, Assembly Visualization has been a excellent tool to display components in an assembly based on different criteria using colors.

Assembly Visualization can be used as an interactive BOM in which you can see file name, quantity, mass, material, volume, density etc.,

  

²Add colors to visualize the model property values.

²You can add new columns to show other properties of the model.

Lets just add a new column to link SW-Material

 

²You can sort the assembly visualization based on the properties in different columns.

²Another great option available inside Assembly Visualization is we can directly apply materials to parts.

²Use the Rollback bar to show only necessary components in Assembly Visualization

²Other Tree options

 

²Starting from SOLIDWORKS 2018, you can directly access Performance Analysis option inside Assembly Visualization.

  

And sort based on Graphics Triangle, Open time, rebuild time.

  

²Another great option is that you can save this style. Instead of adding/editing the new column, you can load this style for future display of Assembly Visualization

²You can also save this as Excel, Text or PDF and publish this a Bill of Materials as Top-level, Parts only or Indented.

 

  With Assembly Visualization you can evaluate you assembly performance and sort by component properties and more.