Physical properties of solid body

You can calculate physical properties for one or more selected solid bodies to verify your design intent.

Analyzing physical properties helps you evaluate how your designed model correlates to its physical counterpart.

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 If model changes affect physical properties, the last known values become out of date and display as N/A.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 (to place a handle that is critical for balance, for example).
• Export data to another application for further analysis.

Properties to calculate

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

• Center of gravity
• Mass, volume, and surface area