Assembly mass literally 10^10 higher

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April 5, 2017
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This one has me stumped as I do the same process of all imported files.

I have an imported assembly that has hundreds of small parts all of which have density set to 1.0E-10. The part has a weight of 1.72e-09 lbs and the assembly (only part in the assembly) has a weight of 17.2 lbs. Changing the density doesn't seem to drive the assembly weight anymore. All units are the same and I have every peice in the assembly checked out. changing the densities always yields the same result.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

Assembly Design

StephenW

23-Emerald III

In the assembly, run the mass properties under analysis. Scroll down on the report and look at the densities and weights of the components. Look for numbers that are much larger or smaller. Don't use the model tree for verifying densities and weights.

In this assembly, I have one part that is rubber, it has a different density and notice the e-02 (different decimal places).

On large imports, I usually use the .m_p text file that is created when running mass props and import that in to excel to weed through the issues.

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Aaronm87

Author

14-Alexandrite

The part density and mass are correct, but look at the assembly avg density and mass. I have no idea what is driving this. It is literally the only part in the assembly.

StephenW

23-Emerald III

And you've opened the part and verified the units on that part?

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mender

12-Amethyst

Random guess here -- some code thinks 1e-10 is an impossible/wrong density (it is a lot less dense than air), and treated it as 1 as a default. To test this, scale up the density on the part and see if 1) asm mass stays the same for a bit and 2) when you get to some point, it suddenly starts working as expected.

If that's the case, probably wants an SPR -- if you are allowed to say 1e-10, and we don't give error msgs, I don't think we have any business using another value.

Caveat: I made this up, and have nothing to say that's what is really going on.