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
Draw a line starting from the center at a 45 degree angle from the horizontal
Create circles with the desired dimensions
- Erase the line and the outer circle
Create arcs
Fillet the circles to create arcs
Choose polar array to copy the entities along the circumference of the circle, aligned with the radius.
Arrays
Explode the array entity and use TRIM to remove unwanted portions of the entities
Join the outer profile to a single entity and take a top, front, left isometric view
Extrude
Use the EXTRUDE command to extrude the outer profile and the inner circles to a distance of 3 units and perform a subtraction
Copy the inner circle as you will need to use the circle twice while extruding
Extrude the outer and inner circles to a distance of 8.5 units, and subtract the outer solid from the inner solid
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
Pull the circular face upward from the bottom to create a hole
Final touches
Use the UNION command to union all solids to get a single solid
Create a fillet at the edge with a radius of 1.5 units
And that's it! Follow these instructions and you'll be able to create a flange coupling in minutes.
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