internal volume of a box?

Hello,

is there a way to quickly get an internal volume (of air, for example)
that a box (or an assembly that is similar to a box) contains?

I believe that when I use "mass properties" it actually gives me the
volume of the material used to create the box, rather than the volume
the box occupies. But even if it was the latter, I still only need the
internal volume as defined by internal faces, rather than of the whole
box as it occupies in space (and as defined by its outside faces).

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

Not all that quick, but when I need an internal volume I always model it.
New part, extrude a sketch to surface....
SW06. Maybe something better since.

HIH

 

Pele,

You can use offset surface command and keep the value as 0. Select all
the internal surfaces and then knit them to make a solid body. Using
mass properties, you can get the internal volume.

Deepak Gupta
SW2007 SP5.0
SW2009 SP2.1
http://gupta9665.wordpress.com/

 

Even quicker you could extrude a solid through your part and then do a
combine-subtract and choose the internal solid to keep.

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