Drawing a Collector in SW

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Hi all

 

I'm looking to draw a collector in Solidworks. Namely a curved round tube on which the other curved tube joins as on the attached part.

 

I don't really know where to start. If it is better to make a sketch of the axes of the whole, or to draw the tubes one by one etc...

 

What would be your etchnic?

 

Thank you all,

 

Ben


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Hello

The easiest way is to do it as in reality. You have to draw the main tube via a sketch on a plan and put the Diam of the tube at the end and make a boss/base swept in the 1st part then create a second part and make a 3d sketch with the direction to take and at the end again create a plan to put the Diam of the tube and redo a boss/base swept then create the assembly. In this one you can remove material at the junction of the tubes and propagate the function to the parts. You should be able to do it if you know a little bit about Solidworks.

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You have to start with a 3D grid of the tube axes.

Then do a sweep and some adaptations

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Otherwise, the piping module is completely tailored to your problem.

There is a tutorial on SolidWorks.

And quite a few videos on YouTube on the subject.

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something like this

See in attached file a way to proceed

SW 2012 file

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collecteur_bmw_1000_gs.sldprt
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Hello

 

We work, we work on the tube.

For this kind of thing, I use mechanical-welding.

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Hello

here is a model with 3D sketch, it's up to you to adjust the angles and dimensions, it would be to try with the piping module.

 


collector.sldprt
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@ a leblanc

I think it would be necessary for a better aeraulic behavior (pressure drop)

create the minimum pitting in the concentric reduction

I'm not sure that via piping

It is possible to create a stitching on a discount?

The same goes for the welded mechanic

and who + is in both of them we need our libraries ;-)

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You're right Gt22, I corrected it, see attached.


collecteur_v2.sldprt
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@ a.leblanc

I can't open your file

I'm on an old SW 2012 version

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Here's the step, and an image of the sketch.

 


collecteur_v2.step
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Hello 

I think that for the first profile, a smoothed boss/base is the best solution as long as you have a reduction on it (if you ignore this reduction you can do a brushed boss/base). For the other two profiles, you can work with a 3D sketch and make another one a brushed boss/base, or you can create new plans and sketches for the directions.

Attached is the test I just performed. 


collecteur.jpg
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