Assigning materials and evaluating and overriding mass properties
Whenever we design physical objects, we have to think about what materials we will choose to build that object. These objects can be made out of plastic, steel, iron, and so on. SOLIDWORKS provides us with an array of different materials to choose from. It also provides us with the properties of each of those materials, such as their density, strength, thermal conductivity, and other properties related to the specific material. Also, once we assign a material to our model, we can evaluate the different mass properties of our objects, such as the mass and the center of mass.
In this section, we will learn how to assign materials and how to evaluate the mass properties of our models. We will also learn how to override the evaluated mass properties.
Assigning materials to parts
In this section, we will discuss how to assign specific materials to our parts. To do that, we will assign the Steel: AISI 304 material...
