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Surface Area

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Surface Area

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I have a dished plate and now i wish to confirm the surface area of the inside face of the dish. Using the inspect tool i then pick on the inner surface then area, this gives me the area in mm 2.

The question is this , is inventor taking into account the fact that this is a dished face (in this case concave) or is it seeing it flat .,perhaps if the face was

more pronounced it would help to see what has been picked.

Inventor gives the answer in area it does not differentiate between surface area and area or are they the same thing ?

Any thoughts please.

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JDMather
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1. It is giving the area of the face selected.

2. You should be able to create a very simple experiment to verify.

Don't trust us.  Experiment and verify.

 

Tip:  Create a cylinder of the same diameter and measure the Area of the circular planar face.  (and hand calc is simple PiR^2)

Compare the answer to your dished face.


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mdavis22569
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Are you trying to get area or volume ... I ask since you said something about being concaved ..

 

You can pick more surfaces ...

 

Not sure 100% but the video of Curtis' in this link might be helpful

 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-general-discussion/calculating-water-volume/m-p/6500384/highl...

 

 

 


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Anonymous
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Its surface area that i am after.

I think i have an answer from an earlier messenger who suggested i do a simple experiment to prove that inventor does indeed give me the surface area when using the  inspect function.

 

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hosford
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a simple test would be to make a cylinder with one end flat, the other end concave, then check the area of each end.

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