Mass Properties of a Part Annotated in a Drawing Not Updating

[danbanach]

In Inventor 2011 I cannot get the Mass of a part to update in a text field in a drawing to automatically update. I did the following.

1. Create a cube
2. In the Application Option dialog box > General tab turn on “Update physical properties on save > Parts and Assemblies”
3. Save the part file
4. Go to the iProperties to make sure the physical properties are updated
5. Create a drawing and retrieve the dimension(s)
6. Use the text command to create text that uses the Mass of the model
7. In the drawing change the model dimension, the drawing is updated to reflect the new dimension
8. Save the drawing and since there is a change to the part file save it as well
9. Notice the text that is equal to Mass did not change, even though the mass has changed
10. Click on the tab of the part file (don’t do anything else to the part)
11. Click on the tab of the drawing file
12. Notice the text that is equal to Mass changes

Using the 3D Annotation command that allows you to annotate the Mass from Labs does not update the mass either.

Thoughts?

Dan

[BMiller63]

Probably not the answer you're after, but this is how I'd do it. Although I agree that i's kind of a gotcha that should be addressed in the way that it does not update the mass automatiaclly.

1. Create a cube
2. In the Application Option dialog box > General tab turn on “Update physical properties on save > Parts and Assemblies”
3. Save the part file
4. Go to the iProperties to make sure the physical properties are updated
5. Create a drawing and retrieve the dimension(s)
6. Use the text command to create text that uses the Mass of the model
7. In the drawing change the model dimension, the drawing is updated to reflect the new dimension
8. Switch to the Part file, click the Manage tab and click the Update Mass button.
9. Save the drawing and since there is a change to the part file save it as well
10. Notice the text that is equal to Mass did not change, even though the mass has changed
11. Click on the tab of the part file (don’t do anything else to the part)
12. Click on the tab of the drawing file
13. Notice the text that is equal to Mass changes

Edit: I just noticed step 2, which I agree should force the update, so I think you're right in expecting this to work with our my step 8.

[karthur1]

In order for the mass of the part to update, you have to either save the part or do like Bmiller said.  The thing that I just noticed is that when you make a change to the part, then go back to the idw the mass for the part says "N/A".  Now if I save the idw, Inventor wants to save the part as well.

Strange that it saves the part, but this save does not update the mass properties like saving the part from the ipt environment.  Not sure why it acts like this, but it now seems to me that it should update the mass in the idw after the save.

Toggling between the part and the idw does not change it here.

[jimchest]

It would be nice if someone from Autodesk could fix this issue???????

Seems like a "No Brainer"

[hhtool]

Hey, Did you ever find a fix for this issue? I have just about had it with Inventor's issues..... These programmers need to get it together!

[robbedoes18]

Things haven't changed since. 

[AMC-weve]

And it is still not fixed!!!

[mdavis22569]

@AMC-weve

this is an old post brought back ...

where are you having this issue?  Can you post a screencast of what is happening?

[AMC-weve]

I'll trie to explain:

I have main assembly with multiple subassemblies. The subassemblies are build around a skeleton.ipt , ....

When I was detailing the drawings and added the bom, I've noticed that the skeleton.ipt was showing in the bom. Therefore I changed the status, from skeleton.ipt, from normal to reference. And saved all files.

In the bom the mass property didn't change. In the iproperties IN the subassembly the correct mass property is shown. But when I look in the iproperties from the subassembly in the main assembly, the wrong mass property is shown????

I've now made a material "skel" with density 0.

Working with Inventor Prof 2015 SP2 update 1

(I miss Pro/Engineer)

[ockertkritz]

Hi

See this:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2014...

Had the same issue, you simply have to tick "Update physical properties on save" under Application option > General tab