Turn Assembly into Part
Turn Assembly into Part
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I have a small assembly with a total of 8 parts or so which i need to apply a weight parameter to. It would be more simple for me to add weight globally instead of assigning a weight to each little part.
Is it possible to turn my assembly into 1 part?
p.s. I considered assigning the weight to 1 component and making all the others 0 grams but this product will float so buoyancy is a factor and cannot have the weight biased towards one side and would like to have it spread evenly throughout the part.
thanks in advance for the help.
Is it possible to turn my assembly into 1 part?
p.s. I considered assigning the weight to 1 component and making all the others 0 grams but this product will float so buoyancy is a factor and cannot have the weight biased towards one side and would like to have it spread evenly throughout the part.
thanks in advance for the help.






RE: Turn Assembly into Part
Take a look at Propa-Gator from http://www.customsolids.com/
It will update properties globally.
Rather than apply a "weight parameter" it would be better to assign the correct material to the individual parts. Then if they are used in other assys, the material properties will be retained with the parts.
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Yes, i am aware that by making this a solid it could cause great strife and unrest to me and/or others but i am doing this conversion with the main purpose of obtaining an assembly's center of gravity nothing more. I am doing all this on a duplicate assembly which is not related to my working assembly.
Additionally, there are many little wires and tin plate pieces which i have no reason to add properties to for now, and probably never will.
MadMango:
I just tried this and upon getting the save as options i get:
Assembly geometry to save in part file:
-exterior faces
-exterior components
-all components
i am trying one by one to see which one gives me the best results. So far i tried all components but it makes all teh components into their own solid body which i would rather do away with and have 1 solid body. will keep you all updated.
RE: Turn Assembly into Part
You can easily obtain the CoG of an assy using the Mass Properties tool.
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Back, to CBL's suggestion. I still think this is best. It doesn't take much effort to assign the correct material to each part... there are only 8 of them.
Also, look into Matt Lombard's site for a macro that creates a sketch point on the center of mass of a part/assy. http://mysite.verizon.net/mjlombard/
-Shaggy
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Chris
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thanks for the help guys. i got it to work.
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You could have set the material for each part and obtained the assy CoG faster than the time it took to create this thread and read & respond to the answers ... and have ended up with an accurate assy.
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Tell me where is the material properties for battery acid and then ill gladly go ahead and do it your way from now on.
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Thanks again.
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looks like everybody jumped on your back
I support you. Do what you need to do!!!