Create a flange coupling in minutes: BricsCAD Tips

Flange_Coupling

You can create simple components like flange couplings quickly and easily in BricsCAD. Simply start with a 2D drawing and use BricsCAD’s intuitive 3D tools to create your 3D model. Let’s take a step-by-step look at how you can create a flange coupling.

Create a circular profile

  • First, you’ll need to create a circular profile
circular profile 1 1
  • Draw a line starting from the center at a 45 degree angle from the horizontal
    line angle 1
  • Create circles with the desired dimensions
circular profile 2
  • Erase the line and the outer circle

Create arcs

  • Fillet the circles to create arcs
    arcs
  • Choose polar array to copy the entities along the circumference of the circle, aligned with the radius.
    polar array

Arrays

  • Explode the array entity and use TRIM to remove unwanted portions of the entities
    TRIM
  • Join the outer profile to a single entity and take a top, front, left isometric view
    top front left

Extrude

  • Use the EXTRUDE command to extrude the outer profile and the inner circles to a distance of 3 units and perform a subtraction
    extrude
  • Copy the inner circle as you will need to use the circle twice while extruding
    copy inner circle
  • Extrude the outer and inner circles to a distance of 8.5 units, and subtract the outer solid from the inner solid
    subtraction
  • Extrude the remaining circles to a distance of 12 units and subtract the inner solid from the outer solid

Create a hole

  • Take a bottom view of the component and use the Push/Pull tool
    push pull
  • Pull the circular face upward from the bottom to create a hole
    create hole

Final touches

  • Use the UNION command to union all solids to get a single solid
    union
  • Create a fillet at the edge with a radius of 1.5 units
    fillet 2

And that’s it! Follow these instructions and you’ll be able to create a flange coupling in minutes.

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