Hello Everyone
I created a break water in the subassembly composer.
Could you guide me on calculating the volume for two semi-circular sides in break water, please!?
Thanks guys
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I have not received any ideas or solutions about this case so far!
Do you already have those round ends modeled? I usually have to do that with a separate baseline and subassembly. If you already have them modeled with the corridor tools, then you have a few options.
1. Volumes of solids
2. Volume surfaces
3. Hand calculation
If you just need the volumes of the shapes that we see in your subassembly, you can extract corridor solids and find the volume of those solids. This is the easiest method in my opinion. Here is an example workflow:
1. Select corridor
2. From the contextual corridor ribbon → corridor tool→ extract corridor solids
3. Follow the prompts at the command line. Select the regions you want (hit enter), select the shape codes you want to extract (hit next), optionally provide property data (hit next), select output options (hit Extract Solids).
4. Now that you have the 3D solid in your drawing, just use MASSPROP to find the volume. Attached is an example of this step.
If you need to compare your design to Existing Ground (or some other surface), then you'll need to make corridor surface of each of your TOP and DATUM surfaces. This method works even if you don't need to compare to EG, but it is considerably more work than extracting the corridor solids imo.
If neither of these work well for you, consider just doing a hand calc. You'll probably need the volume formula for a frustum or a ring depending on the assumptions you're making.
Thank you for sharing your idea!
Actually I'd like to use option 2: because I created a custom subassembly and used a corridor to model the B.W
So it should be better and well-organized to define two separated subassemblies for two semi-circular parts as two separated baselines and then calculate quantities.
I watched your video and took an idea and I appreciate it,
Could you please share your drawing before you explode the corridor?
Thanks
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