From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing a Stirling Engine

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Model and add the air valves

Model and add the air valves - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Model and add the air valves

- [Instructor] We have now added all of the parts that we made to the assembly. We've added all of the fasteners and all of the mates. And we can move the parts around like this and see how the engine will work. But one very important thing that we're missing is a connection between the two cylinders. You might remember at the start of the course we described how this would work. And we said, there's a connection between this hole in the hot cylinder and this hole in the cold cylinder. And that allows air to travel between the two sides. In our model, these two holes will be joined by a tube. The tube will join to air valves which screw into these tapped or threaded holes. This was the kind of air valve that I had in mind when I designed the parts. So this is just a standard air valve. This model is downloaded from a manufacturer's website. You can see here on the left, is a very detailed model. We don't actually need all of…

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