software calculation weight

[Marco74]

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Does anyone know if there is a software, maybe freeware, for calculating the weight of a template (dxf) where I go to tell him the thickness, and the software recognizes the external (external profile) from the interior (holes, spades), so as to calculate the net weight?

Thank you.
Bye.

 

[thor105]

I do not know if it is the right section, in case I invite the moderator to move the post in the correct section.
Does anyone know if there is a software, maybe freeware, for calculating the weight of a template (dxf) where I go to tell him the thickness, and the software recognizes the external (external profile) from the interior (holes, spades), so as to calculate the net weight?

Thank you.
Bye.

a pretty fast solution can be to make you calculate the section area from the cad and multiply it by the thickness and density of the material.

 

[Marco74]

a pretty fast solution can be to make you calculate the section area from the cad and multiply it by the thickness and density of the material.

Do you know if the cad takes into account the spades or not?

Bye.

 

[Marco74]

I tried with the calculated autocad area, but it doesn't even recognize the external profile, you have to follow the path manually. ...

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[gianlucap]

I tried with the calculated autocad area, but it doesn't even recognize the external profile, you have to follow the path manually. ...

Bye.

I with mechanical use the command "individual contour", select the piece, button dx and in the geometry I see the area, but I do not remember if autocad has this command

 

[Marco74]

I with mechanical use the command "individual contour", select the piece, button dx and in the geometry I see the area, but I do not remember if autocad has this command

use autocad mechanical. ...

ciao.

 

[gianlucap]

use autocad mechanical. ...

ciao.

bè then with the shape of your design, type the command you see in the attachment, select the piece, send, clikki on the piece, dx key, object property and in the geometry find the area

 

[Marco74]

bè then with the shape of your design, type the command you see in the attachment, select the piece, send, clikki on the piece, dx key, object property and in the geometry find the area

The problem is when you have things like that... .

Bye.

 

[gianlucap]

The problem is when you have things like that... .

Bye.

In a case of the kind I use inventor, with mechanical the only thing that comes to mind is to calculate the external one and then subtract one to one the internal pieces but it seems to me something quite absurd.
we go if others have better solutions but above all faster!

 

[cacciatorino]

The problem is when you have things like that... .

Bye.

that you would like to know the area of the starting rough, before drilling, but after the initial discount. If you do a rectangle that contains your piece and then calculate the area of that? Of course if the job is repetitive it becomes quite boring.

(May I know what you mean, of course. )

 

[pollo]

I did it with the region command in autocad: it created the areas, then from the outside I subtracted the holes, it gave me the new laundry area and from the properties I had the value.
if you extrude the desired thickness, it also gives you the mass (after putting the density)
Hi.

 

[Fulvio Romano]

I don't think it's difficult.
- command hatch (or _hatch if in Italian, in short, the sampling)
- select internal point
- Is the area you wanted?
- Right-click on the sampling, properties
- in "area" gives you the area

copy and paste into an excel file that multiplies it by thickness and density, that's all.

 

[Marco74]

I don't think it's difficult.
- command hatch (or _hatch if in Italian, in short, the sampling)
- select internal point
- Is the area you wanted?
- Right-click on the sampling, properties
- in "area" gives you the area

copy and paste into an excel file that multiplies it by thickness and density, that's all.

I would say great, precise and fast method.... .

Thank you.

 

[thor105]

the method of fulvio was exactly what, perhaps a little too little explanatory, I meant.