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Total surface area for a part?

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PatCouture

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I would like to find an easy way to know the exact surface area of a part/sheetmetal part. I've been able to use the inspect command to find the area of a single surface but then I had to manually select every surface and adding them to have the total area. Is there an easier (quicker) way to do this?

Thanks

Patrick
 
Inspect, Physical properties, top left little box.

Or am I misunderstanding?

KENAT,

Have you reminded yourself of faq731-376 recently, or taken a look at posting policies: What is Engineering anyway: faq1088-1484
 
Wow! It was right in front of me! I missed it because at first I tried to do it from the assembly environment. It didn't even cross my mind to check in the part itself.

Thanks Kenat
 
ER, top right, but glad you found it.

KENAT,

Have you reminded yourself of faq731-376 recently, or taken a look at posting policies: What is Engineering anyway: faq1088-1484
 
If you are in assembly and don't select a part the physical properties will be given for the whole assembly.
If you select one or more parts the physical properties will be given for just those parts.

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