Volume of Parts
Volume of Parts
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Is there a quick, acurate and easy way to find the volume of a part? I have a complex faceted tank that I need to get the Volume of... How can I retrieve this information from SW?
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RE: Volume of Parts
RE: Volume of Parts
I guess I could go in and draw a representation of the liquid and use the information from that. But why should we have to do that to get the information?
RE: Volume of Parts
1) Place your tank into an assembly
2) Make a large enough solid to represent the liquid. NOTE: Must be larger than the tank itself.
3) Place the liquid into the assembly and mate it so that it in compasses the tank. If the liquid only goes to a certain level on the tank make the it so.
4) Edit the Liquid in the Assembly and click on Cavity in your Mold toolbar.
5) Click on the tank in the FM and click OK
6) Select the bodies you want to keep (which will be the tank)
You now have liquid inside your tank. and that part can be maesued with Mass properties.
I hope that helps,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
When in doubt, always check the help
RE: Volume of Parts
I would try doing as Scott suggested, as he is pretty sharp about some of these things.
As for why you have to something like this to get a volume of something that doesn't exist, is well, because it doesn't exist. I know you want SW to tell you the volume of what the shape would hold, but your probably not going to get it. A total "boundry" volume of the part in whatever shape it is would be nice, but that would also be hard to calculate if you have curves and drafts and lofts, etc.
I would MUCH rather SW concentrate on improving other things (and fixing some things), like the drawing package, than creating a button that calculates the area or volume of something that isn't really there...
Mr. Pickles
RE: Volume of Parts
I would rather have other things improved as well, and at the top of thst list would be the drawing package. I was just curiousas to how complicated it would be to do this, and you all satisfied my curiousity. I will try what Scott suggested and see how it works out.
Thank you all,
DRHINE
RE: Volume of Parts
You would have to in-context sketchs, planes or features to the volumed part. I'm afraid you would start having circular references. When that starts happening your trouble because they can be hard to figure out which external reference or multiple references is causing the problem.
The Volumed part already has an incontexted relationship to the main part (like the 2 liter bottle). So by in-contexting, the incontext model already...you will probably get circular references before it's all over.
Good Luck!
Scott Baugh, CSWP

3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
When in doubt, always check the help