Mirror tool and then calculate weight

Mirror tool and then calculate weight

dean.dekovic_gideon.brothers
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Mirror tool and then calculate weight

dean.dekovic_gideon.brothers
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Hi,

I have an XREF component "1" (made of components and other XREF components, weights 7kg) that is used in the main assembly.  I did a mirror of this component "1", so in the browser, there is this XREF component with the XREF symbol and below it the local (Mirror). 

When I select BOTH of them in the browser and RMB click properties, F360 shows only the 7kg, not 14kg. Very counter-intuitive and a possible source of big problems for the person using F360.

The whole mass-properties-material-assigning module in F360 is somewhat slow (no keyboard shortcuts for properties and material dialog, 1000x different steels in the same folder, ) and OH GOD there is no "override mass". We can conclude that weight is an important part of the engineering world.  

You should also consider implementing a symmetry tool that would "mirror" the components and retain the names for BOM quantity and joints/symmetry around some plane. 

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jeff_strater
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This is an oddity (bug) with the properties tool.  You can select more than one component, but it only reports the first selected component.  If you select the root of the design, Fusion will accurately report the mass properties of the entire design.  I will log the bug with the selections.

 

Jeff

 


Jeff Strater
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