Windchill-Solidworks Mass Attribute Data - Quantity of Measure Inconsistent

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August 18, 2026
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Following on from a number of articles a few years ago (CS258281, WGM Solidworks: Mass Properties not mapped to Windchill | Community, etc) and the PTC docs for mapping Solidworks mass properties to Windchill global attributes (CS258281)

I have created all the mass properties as global attributes as real numbers with units.

The example I will show is the mass, which has the standard QOM of Mass.

Not sure where I am going wrong - I have tried to ensure names are identical everywhere.

Error:

“Mass” property in Solidworks Custom Properties tab:

Global Reusable Attribute:

Attributes table from EPM CAD document Type Management

CAD Data Mgmt

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BryanK

16-Pearl

could be your mass data type in SW is “text” you would need to match that in Windchill or vicea versa

or have a look here https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS455897

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SG_10813193

Author

3-Newcomer

Hey thanks for the article link; struggled to find that.

Your comment was very helpful, as I realised Solidworks stores “Mass” as text, and the numeric version is “SW-Mass”

However, that doesn’t work either seemingly, but when I do use it the other values populate

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BryanK

16-Pearl

Could this be the problem?
For mass properties to be displayed properly for SolidWorks configurations, each instance needs to be opened separately and saved explicitly.

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Dobi

17-Peridot

What does your Solidworks mass mapping looking like in Type Attributes?

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