Cross Section Area

[eaolsen]

OK, I'm using this thing a lot today.

Does anyone know if it is possible to get the area of a Cross Section from
Pro/E?

Thanks,

Erik Olsen

[bgruman]

Hi All,
I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but it has been a few years since I
have done this and am suffering from "old-timers".

I've created a cross-section of a solid. How do I measure the area of
that section?

TIA!
Bernie

--
Bernie Gruman
Owner / Designer / Builder
www.GrumanCreations.com

[bgruman]

OK, so I can pick the section, right click and select "create a curve".
Then create a "fill" feature using that curve, then measure that new
surface... Do I really need to go to that much work? I thought there
used to be a simple "Measure Area" tool that would let you pick cross
sections...

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Bernie Gruman <->
wrote:

> Hi All,
> I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but it has been a few years since
> I have done this and am suffering from "old-timers".
>
> I've created a cross-section of a solid. How do I measure the area of
> that section?
>
> TIA!
> Bernie
>
> --
> Bernie Gruman
> Owner / Designer / Builder
> www.GrumanCreations.com
>
>

[bgruman]

Thank You Keith,
silly me, I was looking under the measure tool.
Bernie


On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Siddall, Keith <->
wrote:

> If you have a plane going through the section, do a cross section mass
> properties and it gives the area. See below.
>
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>
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> HIH,
>
> -Keith
>
>
>
> *From:* Bernie Gruman [
> Then create a "fill" feature using that curve, then measure that new
> surface... Do I really need to go to that much work? I thought there
> used to be a simple "Measure Area" tool that would let you pick cross
> sections...
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Bernie Gruman <->
> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I...

[dmartin]

Btw measuring the area of a closed loop in a sketch is on our wishlist. We had to follow the process you mentioned (complete the sketch, create a fill surface, and then measure the area of the fill surface, just to get the area of the closed loop in the sketch. (We hadn't generated a solid yet, so the Cross Section Mass Properties wasn't available to us.)

David R. Martin II

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

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