Calculating Weight in Inventor

[Anonymous]

Hey..

I had created a multibody part in Autodesk Inventor Pro 2015. Now i have to calculate weight of each body individually. Is it possible in inventor ?

Thanks in Advance.

[mdavis22569]

Yes ... you can assign it the proper material from the material library ..

Go to Iproperties .. Physical Tab , hit update if needed and you'll see it

[mdavis22569]

You can also look it up in the multi part assembly ....

[admaiora · Accepted solution]

Multibody file is an ipt file, so you can  assign only a unique part material.

You can in alternative:

-in the solids folder evaluate the volume of each solid and from that manually calculate the mass for that material

or

- create an assembly with the Make Components tool (manage>make components) and  assign material to parts

or

- use some code to write the masses

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-general-discussion/how-to-get-mass-of-a-body-within-a-multibo...

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Each body's mass prop can be found by right-clicking the solid body -> Properties. Like prior member indicated, only one material can be assigned to the whole part. So, all bodies would be evaluated in the same material. If you just want to see the mass, you could get around it by changing the material and checking Properties. Or, you can use Make Components command to push each body as a part in an assembly. Then assign the different material to each part.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Got it. Thanks a lot Sir. 🙂