Does the mass properties feature work for step or stl files? Say a vendor sends one of these files and you need to assign a center of mass and moments of inertia. Thanks!
Hello everyone, I have an issue concerning the updating of the mass properties. Let’s assume I have a Multi-Body Part with preassigned Materials to all solid body’s. Now when I change let’s say the density of a custom Material, it won’t update the material density in measurement unless I reassign the same material to those solid bodies again. I have MBP with 20+ Solid Bodies and 10+ different materials. Is there a clean and smart solution to workaround this issue?
How to relate the measured value of mass to a design table (I need to get an updated sheet of the total center of gravety of an assembly ) so as to be used outside solidworks for further calculations
Mass Properties don't appear to be readable directly into a Design Table. They can be referenced within the SOLIDWORKS equation manager if using the built-in equations is an option for your calculations. If the intent is the get mass properties into Excel for further calculation then using the SOLIDWORKS API and a VBA macro would be one way to automate it. A VBA macro can be embedded into the Excel document that would reach back to SOLIDWORKS and pull the appropriate mass property values into Excel cells.
I dont really see the point in changing the mass by hand, since it is dependent on the density and therefore by the material choice and the part geometry. But maybe one of these solutions fits you. 1. Create configurations and assign different materials to each configuration. Now you can create a global variable and choose as value via drop down the part properties section and then "SW-Mass". It will change the value, depending on which configuration is active. 2. Create a global variable and assign a value to it and use it for further calculations as your mass variable. This way you can manipulate the weight value in your calculations. But again, this does not make sense in the design Environment, as the calculation result will not fit your parts actual weight. If you want to make precalculations to determine the maximum allowable weight, use excel instead and separate it from your part.
Good day to Hawk Ridge Systems, I have a question which troubled me recently. I have a cylindrical disk (Radius=9cm, Height = 3cm) and i wanted to compare the volume between manual calcualtion and Mass properties from Solidwork. From my manual calculation, i used V= pie*r2*h and got 7. 634x 10^-4 m3 while the Mass properties (Solidwork) showed 1.9 x10 ^-4 m3. I got confused whether the calculation is valid between these two calculations or not and hope Hawk Ridge System may guide me for this > < ~Thankyou Hawk Ridge System and sorry for asking this silly question but i couldn't move forward for my calculation if i cannot figure out the differences between them.
Your hand calculation is correct and solidworks does calculate it correctly. If I change the diameter of the disk to 9cm, I recieve the 1.9 xou mentioned. Seems like at some point radius and diameter got interchanged during the creation of your sketch.
Nice video Sir. Thank you. How do I get the inertia of a rotating mass as per my choice of axis of rotation
Does the mass properties feature work for step or stl files? Say a vendor sends one of these files and you need to assign a center of mass and moments of inertia. Thanks!
Hello everyone, I have an issue concerning the updating of the mass properties. Let’s assume I have a Multi-Body Part with preassigned Materials to all solid body’s. Now when I change let’s say the density of a custom Material, it won’t update the material density in measurement unless I reassign the same material to those solid bodies again. I have MBP with 20+ Solid Bodies and 10+ different materials. Is there a clean and smart solution to workaround this issue?
How to relate the measured value of mass to a design table (I need to get an updated sheet of the total center of gravety of an assembly ) so as to be used outside solidworks for further calculations
Mass Properties don't appear to be readable directly into a Design Table. They can be referenced within the SOLIDWORKS equation manager if using the built-in equations is an option for your calculations.
If the intent is the get mass properties into Excel for further calculation then using the SOLIDWORKS API and a VBA macro would be one way to automate it. A VBA macro can be embedded into the Excel document that would reach back to SOLIDWORKS and pull the appropriate mass property values into Excel cells.
Hey how to solve mass overridden
How can we use mass as a global variable and change the mass by changing the global variable? In short how can we parametrize mass?
I dont really see the point in changing the mass by hand, since it is dependent on the density and therefore by the material choice and the part geometry. But maybe one of these solutions fits you.
1. Create configurations and assign different materials to each configuration.
Now you can create a global variable and choose as value via drop down the part properties section and then "SW-Mass". It will change the value, depending on which configuration is active.
2. Create a global variable and assign a value to it and use it for further calculations as your mass variable. This way you can manipulate the weight value in your calculations. But again, this does not make sense in the design Environment, as the calculation result will not fit your parts actual weight. If you want to make precalculations to determine the maximum allowable weight, use excel instead and separate it from your part.
@@marvinnitsch9531 If I want to import a step file of a heterogeneous part, entering the mass and center of mass manually would be very handy.
Good day to Hawk Ridge Systems, I have a question which troubled me recently. I have a cylindrical disk (Radius=9cm, Height = 3cm) and i wanted to compare the volume between manual calcualtion and Mass properties from Solidwork. From my manual calculation, i used V= pie*r2*h and got 7. 634x 10^-4 m3 while the Mass properties (Solidwork) showed 1.9 x10 ^-4 m3. I got confused whether the calculation is valid between these two calculations or not and hope Hawk Ridge System may guide me for this > < ~Thankyou Hawk Ridge System and sorry for asking this silly question but i couldn't move forward for my calculation if i cannot figure out the differences between them.
Sir how to measure the area of 2d curves
Your hand calculation is correct and solidworks does calculate it correctly. If I change the diameter of the disk to 9cm, I recieve the 1.9 xou mentioned. Seems like at some point radius and diameter got interchanged during the creation of your sketch.
oh god. freedom units 😂