Graphics Programs Reference
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Volumes and other properties
During or after modeling, we may need to obtain geometric properties of solids, such
as volumes for material acquisitions or moments of inertia for engineering calcula-
tions.
Obtaining
volumes
and
other
geometric
properties
AutoCAD provides a very useful command for obtaining this type of information.
The MASSPROP command
The
MASSPROP
command allows you to obtain the most important geometric (or
mass) properties for the selected solids. This command can be found on the
Inquiry
toolbar or the menu bar by going to
Tools
|
Inquiry
. It just prompts for the selection
of solids and displays the respective properties:
Command:
MASSPROP
Select objects:
Selection
The properties displayed are as follows:
•
Volume and mass
: Volume is in cubic units. It also displays an equal
value for mass, but is useless (it considers a density as 1).
---------------- SOLIDS
----------------
Mass:
353.4154
Volume:
353.4154
•
Coordinates of the corners
: Coordinates of the opposite corners of the
box that includes the selected solids related to the current UCS completely.
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