Access to UG Solid Model Density

[joshua0977]

In an Assembly you can configure the columns for a variety of attributes. Solid Density is not one of them.
I can create a Part Attribute for Density but I do not want to. The Model already has the Solid Density assigned in the parts data structure. How can I gain access to it for use in the Assembly Navigator, the Drafting Application etc.?
Yes you can use a Weight Column but I want more granularity.
I've researched UG docs and called GTAC. I cannot find an answer. Just wonder if anyone may have asked the same question and found a work around.

Thanks,
Jay

 

[looslib]

Nothing else to offer except that you have already list all of the options available.


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[mjcole]

Joshua,

MY advice is to create an excel spreadsheet with Tabular Note option in drafting that uses the mass3d function found under User Defined in MSEXCEL. This will allow you to hit edit Tabular Note and from there use Sort and Filter operations in excel.

Maybe I'm one of the few people out there who's a fan of this function although it could be improved to be more 3d but I'll take that up with EDS.

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I first learned about the excel user defined function from bsvk in the above post that I started
I've done some investigation of the function using it with the Mass Analysis to get the following results.

SolidNX described something in his response to that post which seems to only work for User defined Parameter Attributes which show up as text and don't account for decimal places like <X0.2@"component":001> linked expressions do.

If you want to be able to have the decimal places be controlled with out modifying GRIPs I know the following works. I personaly used Format Attributes to give parts in my assemblies their part id's P01,P02 etc. and it worked fine until I hit a few Bugs on V18 with Tabular Note.

=mass3d("NAME",EvalType,Units) for a description of the values that can be obtained using different values for Eval Type and Units see the table below.

Eval Type Units
1 AREA | 1 English Lbs
2 VOLUME | 2 English Lbs?
3 MASS | 3 Metric g
4 Xcbar | 4 Metric kg
5 Mxc
6 Ixxw
7 Ixx
8 MOI sp
9 Pyzw
10 Pyz
11 Xp
12 Ixxp
13 Rgxw
14 Rgx
15 Rg-SP
16 DENSITY
17-256 Same as Density

Hope this helps I found it very useful for putting Part Weights in Assembly Drawings.

Michael

 

[joshua0977]

Mjcole,
Thanks for the info. I should have replied earlier. I was aware of the MASS3D function in Excel. That's good but I was hoping for something simpler. The Density attribute exists within the part. Every solid model has a weight density assigned. The number is real. I'm surprised that the software will not let you have access to it for use in the ANT or other simple output versus having to use Excel.
Thanks,
Jay