A gate valve closes by lowering a flat wedge across the flow, which is why it has a tall bonnet and a rising stem under the handwheel - the stem needs somewhere to go. The hexagonal body flats, the threaded ends and the cast markings are the other identifying features, and this model builds them rather than smoothing the body into a tube.
The mesh is light at 6,323 polygons and 6,299 vertices in quads and tris with non-overlapping UVs, with the geometry in the handwheel spokes, the bonnet and the thread ends.
At $24 it suits plumbing and building services visualization, industrial and process piping scenes, equipment catalogs, technical and training material, and games. On sale since 2023, kept to real-world scale so it fits standard pipework.
Questions About This Model
What is the Brass Gate Valve model typically used for?
Stated applications are architectural visualization, technical visualization and software demos. Because the asset is finished rather than a base mesh, it also holds up as set dressing in scenes it was not specifically built for.
How heavy is the Brass Gate Valve mesh?
6,323 polygons and 6,299 vertices, built as polygonal quads/tris. What matters is not the number itself but how many copies of the object your scene has to carry at once.
How clean is the geometry on the Brass Gate Valve model?
The mesh uses organized, quad-dominant topology at real-world scale, with objects named and grouped rather than merged into one block.
Does the Brass Gate Valve model include materials and textures?
The product page states what ships with each format. Textures, when present, come inside the download rather than as a separate purchase. See the listing for the exact contents.
