Extracting Mass Properties of Parts relative to the Origin of an Assembly

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by Triton, Jan 21, 2005.

  1. Triton

    Triton Guest

    I'd like to find a slick way of extracting several mass properties of
    SW parts that form a large assembly... cg, volume, x,y,z positions
    relative to the assembly's origin.

    I was originally going to just step through the assembly and tally up
    properties in a spreadsheet, but when I found ExcelLink
    (SWTemplate.xls) on SolidWorks' website I decided that maybe there is
    a macro out there that already does exactly what I need. ExcelLink
    comes very close in that you link mass properties of parts to excel,
    and those properties are relative to the part's origing of course.
    ExcelLink also works for an assembly, but takes the cg, and position
    of cg for the whole assembly relative to the origin of the assembly.
    ALMOST what I need, but not quite.

    If I could ge the same info (CG and position of it) for each part in
    the assembly relative to the assembly's origin, I'd be laughing.

    Thanks in advance for any help,
    Scott

    PS. The application here is for weight and balance of a Remotely
    Operated Vehicle - Stability!
     
    Triton, Jan 21, 2005
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