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Internal volume measuring tool
bill_de_la_vega
Member Posts: 20 EDU
I think a useful addition to the measuring tool or maybe a feature script would be the ability to select parts in an assembly that define a closed volume and have that value displayed. Right now the way I did it was create a part studio in context of an assembly and create a part that was the internal volume using Boolean etc on the part until it represented the internal volume and then use the mass properties to display it's volume.
My assembly was pretty simple, I imagine something more complex like a pipe manifold, tank, or other fluid handling machinery would be much more difficult and time consuming to have to do this.
My assembly was pretty simple, I imagine something more complex like a pipe manifold, tank, or other fluid handling machinery would be much more difficult and time consuming to have to do this.
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Fusion 360 has it. https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-E839C0D9-E60A-4F81-A748-4A11C734DD61
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3f84343841cb6d7fead072c8
https://youtu.be/P9vlkcKorTY?t=606
I then did an Enclose and selected all the Parts forming the sides of the box plus the new Surface.
This gave me a new Part, which is the shape of the internal volume. I assigned this a material, custom, with the density of air, and made it semi-transparent.
I can get the surface area of a face of this volume with the Measure tool, and the volume with the Mass Properties tool.
It works great, gave me everything I wanted.
Greg