Wetted surface area of a product

[SaberRaide]

Hi,

I am trying to obtain the wetted surface area of a section of an overall product. I am interested in the ability of V5 to easily output the exposed surface area in a particular bay of an aircraft. I have been using the save product as catpart function, and then spliting the solids going into the particular bay I am interested in. After that, I am generating surface data for these solids using the extract tool in the GSD. Once that is completed, I have to go back and remove the surface that are on the interior portion of the bay.

Is there an easier way to perform this function?

Thanks

 

[jackk]

How about using the Sectioning tool in Assembly Design, and then analyzing the section cut?

 

[SaberRaide]

jackk,

Thanks for the rapid reply.

I have tried that, the problem is there are approximately 40 parts in the bay, most with many surfaces, requiring me to select every surface and add them together manually.

 

[jackk]

Apparently you must have tried a different Sectioning tool.

The one I'm recommending is in the Assembly Design workbench, and the only thing you have to do is move the sectioning the plane. It cuts all the part instances automatically.

 

[SaberRaide]

I understand the sectioning tool. The problem is how to obtain accurate surface area for the interior surface only of the bay I sectioned using the tool. In addition, is there a way to get two sectioning planes in order to isolate just one bay in the middle of the aircraft? Meaning that you cut the aircraft from two different planes in opposite directions.

 

[Azrael]

You can use section slice to get two section planes, it's a submeny in the section tool, in the definition bar the default is section plane, switch it to section slice