Automatic material weight calculator

Hello, I have Autodesk with AutoCAD 2004 and Inventor 8.
I am wondering if there is a function that automatic calculates a drawn piece's weight given the material (and dimensions from drawing) or something like that? Coworker and I have never heard of it, we just calculate it on our own usually. But manager keeps saying previous employee had such a function or free program software or something.

 

There's nothing like that out of the box that I've ever heard of. Could have been done with a LISP routine or something.

If you were to determine the per linear foot weight of a material, you could create a LISP routine that would measure the length of lines in the drawing (to determine wall length, could even be done by layer for different materials) and then multiply the total length by the per linear foot weight that you preset in the routine.

It may not be exactly what you're after, but it should work.

Hope that helps.

 

From my (limited)experience with solid
works...similar to inventor...a material can be
assigned a density, then use mass properties on
the part to get total weight. I would GUESS
inventor has the same kind of functionality?
HTH

 

See if this will work for you.

http://www.metalsuppliersonline.com/research/FreeWeightCalc.asp

Jerry

 

would you be interested in an application that can assign a number of different materials to selected solids,
You can add your own materials, either in imperial or metric, calculate a number of properties including weight, it also allows you to "name" your solids (separate from layers) and outputs all the data from the solids in your drawing to a CSV file, ready for importing into Excel ?

For more information, contact www.resourcecad.com