Gaskets
Flange and custom gaskets to the standards, for the knife, the die or the waterjet.
Flat gaskets cut from sheet: flange gaskets to the standards, rings, and gaskets for covers and hatches, cut by knife, die or waterjet.
What you can design
8 parametric designs come in the library's Gaskets folder (File › Run Parametric…): open one, type your sizes and the drawing follows. Open any of them in the viewer to try it.
The trade's tools
For a drawing whose industry is Gaskets, the toolbar and Edit › Tool offer these tools beside the general drawing, editing and dimensioning tools. Each is parametric: change a size, or move a point it was drawn on, and what it made follows.
Hole Pattern
Holes on a bolt circle (PCD), in a row or in a grid, measured from an edge.
On the toolbar's Holes button
Slot
A slotted hole: between two points, or round a centre at a length and angle.
Gasket Ring
A flat gasket: typed sizes, or an EN 1092-1 or ASME B16.5 flange size.
Tab (micro-joint)
Tabs (micro-joints) left uncut in a cut, to hold the part in the sheet.
On the toolbar's Bridge or Tab button
Lead-in and lead-out
A lead-in and lead-out in the waste, where a closed cut starts and ends.
Bridge
Bridges in a die's rules: where clicked, spread along a rule, or cleared.
On the toolbar's Bridge or Tab button
Edge Notch
A V or U notch cut into an edge.
On the toolbar's Notch button
Exports
File › Export › Export… lists these formats first for a Gaskets drawing:
And the formats every trade uses:
Machine profiles
File › Send Using Machine Profile sends the drawing to a machine in one click, with the format, options, layer names and pens it needs. These come with the app:
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Emulator: CNC (G-code)
G-code
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: plotter / cutter (HP-GL/2)
HP-GL
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: sample-maker (CF2)
CF2
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: sample-maker (DDES3)
DDES3
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Laser CAM by colour (DXF)
DXF and DWG
CO2 and fibre lasers whose software sorts by colour (RDWorks, LightBurn's DXF import, LaserCut, Trotec Ruby, Epilog)
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Rule bender (CF2)
CF2
Automatic rule benders: Lasercomb, Kongsberg/Esko, Serviform, Data Technology, Prima, Suzhou SLD …
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Rule bender (DDES3)
DDES3
Rule benders and die-making systems that read DDES3
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Sample table (HP-GL, a pen a tool)
HP-GL
Aristo, Elitron, Valiani, Data Technology and other tables that read HP-GL
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Waterjet (DXF, cut and etch)
DXF and DWG
Waterjets through OMAX Intelli-MAX, Flow FlowXpert / FlowCut, KMT or the machine's CAM
Reports
File › Reports… works these out from the drawing, to save as a web page or as CSV:
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Foam and gasket material quote
What the pieces cost at each quantity.
Read more
The help's page for the trade describes each tool, design, report and export in full.
Other trades
Get ParametrIQ CAD
Included in every plan. Install it, activate it, and start with File › New or File › Run Parametric…