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stick mass on derive or import

stick mass on derive or import

some discussions here i think warrant a case for added functionality:

 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-General/DERIVED-PART-MASS-NOT-CORRECT/m-p/4883558#M500800

 

maybe a new button to say whether we wish to keep mass on assemblies or parts when we derive them?

18 Comments
blair
Mentor
Add an additional button to copy in the CoG of the Parent as well. Just bringing in the existing Mass would mean that Inventor may try and adjust the Density to achieve the desired Mass. This could cause a shift in the CoG as it tries to apply the new Density to the volume of the Derived part
Mark_Wigan
Collaborator

good call blair

dan_szymanski
Autodesk
Status changed to: Accepted

Accepted idea [617]. Thanks!

Anonymous
Not applicable

This is very needed.

If i have a right and left version of an assembly, i derived the right one into the part that will be my left one, then i also want the mass to come with it.

dan_szymanski
Autodesk
Status changed to: Future Consideration

We are refining procedures around idea status.  Changing this to Future Consideration.

Anonymous
Not applicable

Still relevant / missing in Inventor 2018...

Anonymous
Not applicable

This would be very useful as I have derived large assemblies which could change in the future my another designer. Not able to have a live link to the base assembly makes the mass of this item 14 times lighter than it should be (generic). When the mass in critical to the final assembly and lifting capacities of the final large assembly extra checks have to be carried out.

Anonymous
Not applicable

hello,

when you make a shrinkwrap of an assembly the physical properties are the same of the original assy.

I know that this is good because, when using the shrinkwrapped substitute in a main assy, the right mass is needed for a correct total weight.

in same cases, instead, expecially when computing the external area to paint it would be much more useful to have the physical properties of the semplified part as an option. (i.e.: a frame with tubolar profiles).

something similar to wath happen with the LOD where you are asked for total mass or LOD mass.

actually I shrinkwrap the frame than export to step then I obtain only the external area.

 

thank you

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licenses
Contributor

We usually use the derived assembly as Surface to construct parts.

but the Surface include the Mass of the whole assembly.

we need to derived surfaces without Mass.

 

so please give the function derived assembly the option without Mass!

DRoam
Mentor

@licenses , you should be able to simply override the mass of the derived assembly to "nothing" like so:

 

  1. Open iProperties (File --> iProperties)
  2. Go to Physical tab
  3. In the Mass field, type in "0" (without quotes), then hit Enter.
  4. You should see a little hand to the right of the mass, indicating that you have overridden it to a static value. It will now permanently remain 0.
stigler
Advocate

Hello from Vienna!

I agree to Your suggestion! It would be nice if there would be a "switch" to remove the mass information when an assembly is derived into a part as a surface model.

 

I use Your method too to create new parts with geometrical information from the assembly. The method from DRoam does not work in this case as I want to have massiformation from the newly added geometry.

 

Here is a link to some workarounds directly from Autodesk. But I am not happy with all of them. The best one is the second. But it's not a satisfaction!

 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/de/support/inventor/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/DE... 

 

 

 

Autodesk Inventor Team, please create the mentioned "switch" that can be used during deriving the assembly! Mass-Information will be derived or not.

 

Have a nice evening,

 

Carolus Stigler

 

 

licenses
Contributor

Hallo nach Wien,

 

vielen Dank erst mal für deine Hilfe!

 

das mit der Fläche löschen kann man ja nur bei ganz einfachen Körper wie Quader oder so machen.

wenn das eine komplexe Baugruppe ist, würde es zu viel zeit kosten.

 

aktuell löse ich es tatsächlich so, dass ich die baugruppe als Volumenkörper ableite, dann konstruiere ich die Teile die ich benötige und dann zeichne ich einen Großen Rechteck drüber und ziehe den abgeleiteten Körper ab.

 

dass diese Funktion so gewollt ist kann ich leider bis heute immer noch nicht verstehen...

 

viele Grüße

WK-VA
Contributor

Kind of sad that nothing happened in the course of 8 years now. "Accepted" => "Future consideration"... is that a downgrade in terms of priority? And when's the future supposed to happen? Anytime soon?

 

I think mass properties ... or let's better say density! ... should be carried over body by body. This might conflict with the data model of Inventor - however if that's the case, then it might be worth reflecting upon the data model and if it's a good design or not. With all due consequences...

By carrying over density body by body, any modification of the derived part would result in a most accurate mass as well as CoG. If the user decides to have only one resulting body, the calculated average density should be applied... that seems like a good compromise. Anyone that wants a more accurate result has to opt for a multi body result.

 

We use derived parts to do the machining of welding assemblies, as the Inventor weldment environment (same as machining in the assembly environment) sucks for a long time now and nothing changes either (no colours, no shared sketches, no patterns to be reused upstream, ...). So it's: raw parts (IPTs)=> welding assembly (IAM) => machining in derived part (IPT). Mass properties is a problem in that case, although in our case it's all steel, so we could perhaps use a "dummy material" with an average density of steel.

karl.lednik
Advocate

 I agree with this idea.  When deriving geometry as surfaces, there should be a toggle for whether the mass is inherited or not.  It seems to me that it would be more likely that one would not want the mass than when one would.  It's much more intuitive for a surface-only part to not have any mass.

 

I should point out that this issue only applies when deriving as surfaces and isn't affected by which subcomponents you select to be derived.  Deriving as either solid option applies the density of the assigned part material.

 

Frank.Schmelzer
Contributor

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

 

Das Gewicht stimmt nicht, wenn ich eine  Baugruppe als Flächenmodell in ein Bauteil ableite! Es wird ein Gewicht eingetragen, obwohl eine  Fläche gar kein Gewicht haben kann! 

 

So kann man moderne Konstruktionsmethoden (Skelettmodellierung, Bauräume,...) nicht verwenden!

Bin drauf gestoßen als ich die Füllung einer mit Routed Systems erstellten Rohrleitung ermitteln wollte! Dafür benötigte ich eine Ableitung der Baugruppe! 

 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Frank Schmelzer

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RajSchmidt
Advisor

Looks actually like a bug to me. On the other hand, in the case of master models it is a good practice to set the layouts to “Reference”.

Yijiang.Cai
Autodesk

Just use google translator for the idea -

Weight of a derived assembly as a surface model
Ladies and Gentlemen

 

The weight is wrong when I derive an assembly as a surface model into a part! A weight is entered, although an area cannot have any weight at all!

 

You can't use modern construction methods (skeleton modeling, construction spaces,...) like this!

I came across it when I wanted to determine the filling of a pipeline created with Routed Systems! For this I needed a derivation of the assembly!

Yijiang.Cai
Autodesk
Status changed to: Future Consideration

Many thanks for posting the idea, and tracked as [INVGEN-15114].

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