Center of Volume

[hosford]

Is there a way to acquire the center of volume for an assembly?

It would be like the center of gravity but all of the assembly parts would be of the same density.

[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi! There are two ways to do it. You can either assign the same material style to all components (a bit labor intensive) or derive the entire assembly as a multi-solid body part. Then the COG will be COV.

Many thanks!

[Xun.Zhang · Accepted solution]

Hi Thaddeus,

Johnson is right. You can also leverage Shrikwrap to create a new part and the COG should be COV.

[hosford]

Jonson

what would the steps be to derive the whole assembly? Opps, I see the next post by Xun shows me.

I did try shrink wrapping, it gave me something so close to the original I didn't believe I had what I wanted, and the weigh was the same.

Thanks,