×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Any way to change the default density

Any way to change the default density

Any way to change the default density

(OP)
Is there any way to change the default density from 1 to .283.
So when it asks for a density value of a part that has not had a value assigned, it will default to .283 instead of 1.

Sorry, have "mass_property_calculate" set to automatic an am get'n a little lazy. Don't want to have to type .283 & enter for a million parts every time I open a job done by someone else.
 

RE: Any way to change the default density

   Perhaps a mapkey is the way to go on this one.  Go to Tools > mapkeys and click the button labeled New.  You can use any key sequence (like your initials or jjax), and can name it something like assign_steel_density.
   Now hit Record, and go through the steps of assigning a new density (Edit > Setup... Mass Props, Density = .283, Ok, Done).  Hit Stop in the Record Mapkey dialog box, then OK.  Save the mapkey (it's stored in your config file) then close.
   Now whenever you open a part, all you have to do is type whatever key sequence you assigned, and the density will get changed.

Hope this helps,

-Michael Burlone

RE: Any way to change the default density

Start Parts!
The purpoe of a start part is capture your companies standards so every part created is consistent.

 

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources