Find the Offender (WF4)

[PeterBrown]

I have a medium-sized assmbly (about 80 different components) and I am trying to find its mass and CG. I assigned all the materials but I must have made a mistake in one or more parts because it's wildly overweight. I can figure out how to generate a list of the parts showing their mass individually - I'm sure whatever is wrong would jump right off the screen at that point.

I also tried adding a column to the repeat region on the assembly drawing that would show the mass, but the closest parameter I can find just shows the density and it's not really helpful. I'm sure I've assigned an in-lbm value to a kg-mm-sec part somewhere though.

Any thoughts?

TIA

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[TomU]

Add the PRO_MP_MASS parameter to either the BOM or the assembly model tree. The "heavy" component should quickly show up.

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[StephenW]

OR simply look at the bottom of the Mass Properties box.

It gives you filename, density, mass, CG (X,Y,Z). If you have sub-assemblies, it only shows the mass and density of the sub-assy, that's when the model tree columns come in really handy.

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