Display the weight of a body in a plane

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Hello

I have a welded construction part file containing several tubes, which change according to the configurations.

For the drawings, I have to show only one tube per sheet. I'd like to display the weight of a tube (i.e. a body in a configuration) in the cartridge (or failing that on the plan), and that this value be updated as the changes change. How do you do this?

Thank you in advance

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Hello

You have to put the mass property of SolidWorks.

I made tutorials on custom properties on my site:

http://tutoriel.solidworks.free.fr/crbst_168.html

http://tutoriel.solidworks.free.fr/crbst_173.html

(To do with Edge or Firefox because Google Chrome no longer accepts Flash files).

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Thanks, but custom properties don't allow you to enter values for a specific part body, or for a particular configuration (it doesn't update well for configs) as far as I know. And nothing of this kind is indicated on the tutorials of your site

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Hello

To set the weight of each configuration, you have to go click in the properties of the part, choose the desired configuration, is added its weight and so on for the others... Kind regards

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@A.R. That's the method I was talking about, saying that it doesn't update well.

Indeed, once the link to the property has been made on the plan, if there is a change you have to reopen the 3D, the configuration, update, then go back to the plan. (might as well enter the values by hand..)

And I would still need to tie that weight to the relevant body with that.

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Hello

As a continuation of my problem, I tested several things, and I came up with the following formula in the custom properties specific to the configuration (see image);

Can someone tell me if this is correct? Because SolidWorks doesn't understand, it shows me as a result what I typed instead of the corresponding value.

Thank you!

 


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Hello

The technical support told me that it is not possible to put this information in the title block directly for the moment, but that it is possible to create an annotation for it:

You have to go to the properties of the article/body in question, and create the property "weight article 1" for example. Also make sure that the automatic update of welded items is activated.

Then on the drawing, you have to create an annotation, click on the desired article on a view, then insert a link with "link to property", select "model found here" and "component to which the annotation is attached".

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