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Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

AvihooI — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 02:47:35 GMT

I would like to measure the volume of a body in order to figure out what its mass would be. Is that easily possible in Fusion 360?

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 06:55:44 GMT

Hi You can get those properties by right clicking on the root component at the browser and select properties: Two screen shots to show you here:

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

AvihooI — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:29:56 GMT

Thank you,
I actually found out that feature two hours after asking the question and was giving myself a facepalm 🙂

It's good to have this as reference though cause I couldn't find it using the search option or on google!

Thanks again!

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:32:46 GMT

Hi I deleted the last post because I would like to add a few more points. Yours is a great question! I used "Mass" from Properties to estimate the approximate cost of materials to be used in the actual model. Most of our projects will be made by Plastic Injection Molding method and the approximate Mass is quite important. To get the X, Y, Z dimensions I would save an STL file of the model and use a 3rd party 3D reader to get the dimension information. When 2D drawing is available for Mac Fusion users we should be able to get the dimensions within Fusion.

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

jfanchin — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 05:35:27 GMT

Just wanted to check on if the volume/mass calculation is available for Mac yet? Having some trouble locating ...

Thank you

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

Phil.E — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:34:43 GMT

Hi thanks for posting to the forum.

The properties for your parts are found by right clicking on the component node in the browser. Use "properties". It's the same for Mac or Windows.

Thanks,

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

jfanchin — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:44:56 GMT

Thank you, I found that info on the Internet, but the root cause of the issue was that I was using an Apple mouse that didn't have a right click button. I assumed the Mac version was different and that commands might have been located differently, but once I guessed that it might be as simple of a hardware issue I was able to get it sorted out.

It might be a great helpful tip online though to make sure you have full functional mouse to access all features.

Thank you,
Joe

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Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 05:34:51 GMT

I design a Steel parts over 100 kg, density is 7.8 kg / m^3, how to change density 0.0078 g / mm^3 to 7.8 kg/ m^3?

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 05:54:00 GMT

Hi,

Your calculation is exactly the same, just divide your answer by 1,000,000.

Brett.

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:45:48 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Hi,

Your calculation is exactly the same, just divide your answer by 1,000,000.

Brett.

Thank you your help. But this not my want, we need to know some casting parts over 1000 kg, the density g/mm^3 can't fit our request.

@Anonymous wrote:
Hi,

Your calculation is exactly the same, just divide your answer by 1,000,000.

Brett.

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:57:34 GMT

Sorry, I think I may have misunderstood your question.

What are you trying to do?

Brett.

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:15:20 GMT

Try this.

1m^3 = 1,000,000,000mm^3

The specific gravity of steel = 7.85

The formula for a piece of steel in kilograms is - ((volume in mm^3) x 7.85) / 1,000,000)

The mass of a cubic meter of steel is 7,850kg - I.E. 7850kg/m^3

The formula for a piece of steel in grams is - ((volume in mm^3) x 7.85) / 1,000)

The mass of a cubic millimetre of steel is 0.00785g - I.E. 0.00785g/mm^3

To get the weight of any other material - substitute the specific gravity of that material for the number 7.85 in the calculations above.

Does this solve your problem?

Brett

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:56:37 GMT

Thank you for your reply.

thank you.

@Anonymous wrote:
Try this.

1m^3 = 1,000,000,000mm^3

The specific gravity of steel = 7.85

The formula for a piece of steel in kilograms is - ((volume in mm^3) x 7.85) / 1,000,000)

The mass of a cubic meter of steel is 7,850kg - I.E. 7850kg/m^3

The formula for a piece of steel in grams is - ((volume in mm^3) x 7.85) / 1,000)

The mass of a cubic millimetre of steel is 0.00785g - I.E. 0.00785g/mm^3

To get the weight of any other material - substitute the specific gravity of that material for the number 7.85 in the calculations above.

Does this solve your problem?

Brett

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

robduarte — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 02:16:06 GMT

I posted this video on the topic recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TikstpkcRuI

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:06:18 GMT

How check the density/mass of the part in the mobile app. Is it possible I haven't found any info about this or is the mobil app only a viewer program that can't measure mass?

Re: Is there a way to measure volume (or mass if given density) of a body?

g-andresen — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 10:40:22 GMT

Hi Mattias,

try it this way:

regards

günther