Weight Units on Drawing

[engAlright]

On a drawing you can link a note to a "Weight" custom property in a model. The value of this "weight" custom property can be driven by a design table in which you just use this string:

"SW-MASS@@[CONFIGURATION NAME]@[PART NAME]"

Such that the weight custom property is linked to the mass of the model from mass properties.

Now the question:

Can the UNITS of the weight be controlled from the design table, or at the very least, also extracted from the model mass properties?

The problem stems from the fact that this weight custom property has no units associated with it. For example, when your model is in lbs but your drawing is in grams what gets displayed on the drawing is the actual mass value in lbs, rather than in grams, so you end up with an artificially light part.

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[PDMAdmin]

Try referencing this thread for starters:

thread559-99460

 

[engAlright]

Thanks PDMAdmin, though it doesn't sound like there is currently a way to do this, time for another enhancement request.

This is a potential problem on any assembly that requires an accurate weight be displayed on the drawing (i.e. for shipping or crane capacity). what happens if you've got some parts in your assembly that are metric (g), yet the dimension default on the drawing is in lbs? You'll end up with a metric bolt that according to your BOM, weighs 500lbs.

 

[gedkins]

If I understand you correctly I can probably solve this with a macro if you are interested.

Guy

Guy Edkins
Managing Partner
Delta Group Ltd

gedkins@deltagl.com

http://www.deltagl.com

 

[engAlright]

Thanks for the offer gedkins, but I was hoping there would be a way to do it without the use of API. The API would have to be triggered by someone, which would require you to know when the units of one of your parts in an assembly is set to metric. Easier said than done on an assembly with a couple hundred parts in it.

I would imagine this would be a fairly common problem. Since this could be done with API, why then can't it be included in Solidworks?