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 parts.
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 If model changes affect physical properties, the last known values become out of date and display N/A.
It is useful to assign physical properties to components to locate a center of gravity, and to export data to another application for further analysis.
You can specify different materials for individual components, set analysis tolerances, and calculate values such as:
User-defined override values are allowed for both mass and volume. By entering your own values, you can adjust for and accurately represent the true physical mass and volume of selected components that cannot be modeled.