Check Valve (3dvia) - Abu

Good stuff Abu!!. Shows very good function of a valve. One note: usually those valves are coming with a flange on the input side too (I suppose the hose pointing to the right is the input). And a few nuts would be good to make the screws perfect. you can find screws, nuts and ISO flanges on www.tracepartsonline.net . they even can export the parts in 3DXML, so you can upload those parts here and then reuse them in yur design.
Other than that: Very good job!!!

Thanks for the comments alfredix!
You are correct about the connection on the input side… it feels incomplete… it isn’t a flanged end, but connected using with Straubb-grip (http://www.straub.ch/index.php?id=287)
About fasteners, i intentionally did not include them at this point of time… could include them later mabbe…
And thanks a lot for the excellent reference site :)

It’s great to see Shape being used to create conceptual/real components. Adding fasteners is always a decision point in the development process. When do they become critical to validating the design vs just adding too much to the model size?

Hi Abu,
I checked the Straub site. Interesting parts. I assume those couplings allow a lot more flexibilty in the connection than standard flanges.
Don’t worry about the fasteners. For those who know, they are not important in the model. For those who don’t know, they will learn as soon as they put pressure on the valve (ha ha)

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