Floating Ball Valve- SolidWorks Animation (Exploded View, Assembly, Working Motion, & Labels) CAD

Floating Ball Valve- SolidWorks Animation (Exploded View, Assembly, Inner Workings and Motion, & Labels) CAD

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Background:
For this project, I decided to learn the basics of the mechanical design that goes into making a ball valve. They are used extensively in many industrial applications such as clean water services and petrochemical services. Ball valves are a type of on-off valve, and they use a rotary quarter turn-type of operation that can be done either manually or by an actuator. Ball valves can come in many configurations, which allows them to be very versatile. The main type of differences in configuration occurs in: seat type, connection ends, bore (port) type, split body, ball design (e.g. floating vs trunnion), and materials.

Animation:
Everything was modeled by me from scratch in SolidWorks and I used valve handbooks, product catalogs from various valve companies, & ASME standards to help me choose the materials and dimensions for this project. I'm not an expert with ball valves so I may have more improvements to make. Feel free to comment down below with any constructive criticism.

[SlotManWins]

Great insight into the design and function of the unit.

[jmnk-]

Thanks very much..I saw many diagrams regarding the parts but could understand it very poorly but thanks to this video i now know where are all the components used and fixed :)

[markvwood]

Nice job! Was this all done inside SolidWorks?