How to design a pump in solidworks
How to design a pump in solidworks
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I already have specs for a pump and I'm trying to get some experience by doing some modeling work for my brother-in-law while finishing up college. Currently, I'm having problems designing the actual pump body for a recessed impeller vortex pump as can be seen on the homepage at http://www.esscopumps.com/.
If anyone can give me some starting points as to how to draw this in Solidworks that would be great. I started with drawing an increasing radius arc and it works great until I get to the point of putting the outflow tube on and then I run into problems. I'm stumped on how to get this pump drawn with the empty cavity in the middle, and have the entire thing be all one unit.
Thanks in advance!
Lucas Bultema
If anyone can give me some starting points as to how to draw this in Solidworks that would be great. I started with drawing an increasing radius arc and it works great until I get to the point of putting the outflow tube on and then I run into problems. I'm stumped on how to get this pump drawn with the empty cavity in the middle, and have the entire thing be all one unit.
Thanks in advance!
Lucas Bultema






RE: How to design a pump in solidworks
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
Design Manager/Senior Designer
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RE: How to design a pump in solidworks
RE: How to design a pump in solidworks
The problem I have is where the outflow goes, I can't seem to get the 'in between' space to fill in. I basically extruded a half circle or the profile around a line. The lines don't exactly match up as you'll see because I smoothed the whole thing out. This is mainly for a display of solidworks and for me to gain experience and not critical to a project.
I also need to put a flange on one side that is raised and would extend down to the pump body. I had tried to do this but it kept giving me problems like it can't go down to two seperate bodies...it'll extrude down to one but as you go around the pump body the distance changes and it acts like it wants to go down the same distance.
If there is an easier way to design these, I have no problem starting over. I've got most of the other parts modeled already so I'm ready to put those in to the body for an assembly.
Thanks for the help and hopefully my comments explain my problems.
RE: How to design a pump in solidworks
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
Design Manager/Senior Designer
M9 Defense
My Blog
RE: How to design a pump in solidworks
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RE: How to design a pump in solidworks
RE: How to design a pump in solidworks
Convert entities > select open edges of the pump.
Close the sketch w/ a tiny straight line right at the 'v'.
Extrude, from a vertex on the inside to a vertex on the outside.
You can also insert a plane parallel to the top plane and coincident w/ a vertex on the open edge.
RE: How to design a pump in solidworks
RE: How to design a pump in solidworks
You should also indicate when not using the latest release as you are likely to get solutions you cannot open in older release.
RE: How to design a pump in solidworks
If you can let me know which sketches seem to be messed up that would be awesome. Thanks!
RE: How to design a pump in solidworks
Chris
SolidWorks 10 SP4.0
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RE: How to design a pump in solidworks
First I would create a master sketch and then will build my part/features taking reference from it.
Deepak Gupta
SW 2009 SP4.1 & 2007 SP5.0
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