SW mass properties
SW mass properties
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When you have a purchased part in your assembly (directly pulled off the vendor's website), how does SW account for it in its centre of gravity calculations? This could either be a shell model or a regular part.
Can you assign material properties to a shell model?
Can you assign material properties to a shell model?






RE: SW mass properties
RE: SW mass properties
-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Professional
RE: SW mass properties
I do not wish to assign CG value but want SW to calculate it for me. The only thing that I wish to assign is the density. So, if I do mass properties on an assembly with 3 parts, each having different densities, do I expect SW to show me a density which is average of the 3?
RE: SW mass properties
I do have a macro for assigning density to multiple components of an assembly. It's old but still works OK if you don't have material properties locked in some other way. It's on my website (see below) under "Freeware".
http://www.EsoxRepublic.com-SolidWorks API VB programming help
RE: SW mass properties
It is indeed total mass/ total volume.
Which means, i need to ensure that each and every part in my assembly in sub-assembly has the correct mass and hence the correct density. Right?
Problem is I have 500 parts. Will the macro work here?
Looks like there is a 'default' density set on parts which obviously have no 'assigned' density.
Will the macro override the default density?
Or do I somehow make the default density inactive?
I am using '06.
RE: SW mass properties
The macro only changes the parts' density property (the one you find under document options). I did use it in SW2006 no problems. I'm not sure how it behaves if there is a material assigned.
RE: SW mass properties
RE: SW mass properties
What macro is that? I just did a quick scour of the usual suspects and didn't find a macro that would traverse an assembly or directory and assign material (or density). I sure thought there was one out there, but I couldn't find it.
-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Professional
RE: SW mass properties
-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Professional
RE: SW mass properties
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http://www.EsoxRepublic.com-SolidWorks API VB programming help
RE: SW mass properties
http://www.cadimensions.com/Resources/macros.cfm
http://www.esoxrepublic.com/
http://www.goengineer.com/support/downloads.aspx
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http://sw.fcsuper.com/index.php
http://mysite.verizon.net/mjlombard/macros.html
http://swtools.cad.de/us_prog_pac.htm
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I just missed it when I went to your site.
-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Professional
RE: SW mass properties
RE: SW mass properties
Does the macro take care of multiple materials or just a single material?
RE: SW mass properties
RE: SW mass properties
thankign you
kartik
RE: SW mass properties
RE: SW mass properties
yes the best way is to assign different properties to different configurations.
RE: SW mass properties
i could only see one button for the mass properties for the whole part file. how do i then create multiple configuration
RE: SW mass properties
In any case, try the help files to add multiple configurations.
RE: SW mass properties