Calculation of body properties

Analyzing physical properties helps you evaluate how your designed model correlates to its physical counterpart. To verify design intent, you can calculate physical properties for one or more selected solid bodies.

Mass properties are not automatically updated with model changes. If model changes affect physical properties, the last known values become out of date and display N/A.

Reasons to calculate physical properties

It is useful to assign physical properties to solid bodies to calculate weight and volume, to locate a center of gravity (for placement of a handle that is critical for balance, for example), and to export data to another application for further analysis.

Properties to calculate

You can specify the material for the part and calculate values such as: