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Engineering Design with SOLIDWORKS® 2018 Fund.amentals of Assembly Modeling

Point at the Center of Mass Insert Tools Window Help

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Add a center of mass (COM) point to parts, assemblies or y

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drawings.

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COM points added in component documents also appear in

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the assembly document. In a drawing document of parts or [. pl \ • <; t

GB Model Break View ...
assemblies that contain a COM point, you can display and ~ New Motion Study

reference the COM point. Assembly Feature

[ Referenc~ometry • gl Plane ...
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Add COM to a part or assembly by clicking Center of Mass C Sketch )-. Coordinate System ...

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(Reference Geometry toolbar) or Insert, Reference rtJ} Layout ·$· Center of Mass

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Geometry, Center of Mass + I or checking the Create
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Center of Mass feature box in the Mass Properties dialog
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box. ~ CUSTOMER (Default<Display State-

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The center of mass of the model is displayed in the Graphics lfll Sensors

window and in the F eatureManager design tree just below the ~ 00 Annotations

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dJ Front Plane
The position of the COM

dJ Top Plane

point + I updates when the dJ Right Plane

model's center of mass changes. L Origin

The COM point can be 1·$· Center of Mass

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suppressed and unsuppressed for

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configurations.

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You can measure distances and

add reference dimensions between

the COM point and entities such as X: -0.06rnrn

vertices, edges and faces. fj Measure - CUSTOMER... ? X Y: 18.29rnrn

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Center of Mass
-;Q;. If you want to display a

reference point where the CG was

X: -0.06mm

located at some particular point in the Y: 18.29mm

Z: -7.45mm
F eatureManager, you can insert a CUSTOMER.SLDASM

File: CUSTOMER.SLDASM Config: Default
Center of Mass Reference Point. See

SOLIDWORKS Help for additional

information.

Add a center of mass (COM) point to a drawing view. The center

of mass is a selectable entity in drawings, and you can reference it

to create dimensions.

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