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mass of components

mass of components

mass of components

(OP)
I have an assembly (built with several sub-assemblies) with roughly 100 parts in it. Does anyone know if there is a way to get a print out of all of the masses and materials of the piece parts in the assembly? I started going one by one but I figured there had to be a better way, a macro or something. i know that you can do it by creating a BOM and then exporting to excel. But all of my piece parts have units of lbs and I want them all in grams, I cant think of a way of doing this without opening up each and every piece part.

RE: mass of components

Export to Excel and convert?

RE: mass of components

As another option, you could utilize the Assembly Visualization Feature. You can sort by Mass & Material, and then save as Excel

RE: mass of components

(OP)
@DrBwts: yea exporting to excel and converting would work but it is kind of slow and also i have several sub-assemblies which do not show piece parts masses
@ctopher: I think i could make a macro as your link described, but I would still need to open up all of my piece parts...
@CADFlyer: this is exactly what I was looking for, I had no idea of this feature and it works so well you probably saved me days worth of work thank you so much for showing me this...

Thanks for all the help

RE: mass of components

rhmeng,

Definitely, you can add the component mass to your Excel BOM. Probably, you can add it to the SolidWorks BOM. Use the exploded BOM and you will see all your masses.

Read the manual.

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JHG

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