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Center of mass/gravity in a drawing

sutherland- — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 07:37:26 GMT

Dear community,

I would like to know how is it possible to show Center of Mass/Gravity in a technical drawing?

Example can be seen below:

Best,

Kritzz

Re: Center of mass/gravity in a drawing

sutherland- — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 07:52:00 GMT

The only way I can see how to overcome the question, is placing the Center of Mass in the design workspace , then manually measuring it form the midpoints of the design, which is really time consuming and not handy.

Re: Center of mass/gravity in a drawing

jhackney1972 — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 10:15:05 GMT

Take a look at this Blog Article and Video to demonstrate the process. The article also mentions another article which talks about placing the center of mass in the model. It is a manual process but these will speed the process.

Re: Center of mass/gravity in a drawing

sutherland- — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:50:07 GMT

Tried your solution, but my point sketch is grayed out in the drawing workspace.

Re: Center of mass/gravity in a drawing

jhackney1972 — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 22:13:38 GMT

I am experiencing the same problem. Something is very different with the way Fusion 360 handles the position of points in the drawing environment since I recorded the Blog video. It would seem it cannot handle the sketch if it is moved off of the plane on which it was created. I am working on a different workflow and if I can find one, will update my blog. I will also come back to this post and update it also.

Re: Center of mass/gravity in a drawing

jhackney1972 — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:29:33 GMT

Since Fusion 360 no longer will show a point in a drawing view that is "not" on the original plane of creation, I have come up with another method. The process is outline in the video below. I will be updating my Blog article and video as soon as possible.

(view in My Videos)

Re: Center of mass/gravity in a drawing

sutherland- — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:53:34 GMT

It worked, awesome, thanks!

But again, it is a bummer that Fusion 360 does not have it as a default feature, since this is quite crucial for DFMA.

Re: Center of mass/gravity in a drawing

RLShute — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 23:15:06 GMT

I would like a simple solution so that I can use it with my High school Freshmen. The system based on creating a new componet and sketch points in required views is to diffcult for the majority of them. I know if I forced them to do it that way it would turn new Fusion users off from the product.

The reason I care is that students are designing and building compresses air rockets. In doing this I want to compare the center of mass to the center of pressure to help them design rockets that do not tumble in flight. I hope Auotdesk see this and design a way to transkfer the center of mass from the model to the drawing with the touch of a button.

Re: Center of mass/gravity in a drawing

Matt_Finish — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 03:18:44 GMT

Has this been properly solved since this post's creation? (ideally imputing COM Symbol into a drawing)