Mass Properties Options

Volume, Surface Area, Centroid

Check the values that you want to display in the Mass Properties Editor window.

Type

Describe the way the selected surfaces or faces define the solid.

Solid – The surfaces you pick represent the boundaries of a closed, solid object.

Shell Interior – The surfaces you pick represent the exterior of a thin shell enclosing a hollow space (for example, modeling a bottle with a single surface of revolution). The Thickness option specifies the thickness of that shell.

Tolerance

The precision of the tessellation used to determine the mass properties.

Thickness

The uniform thickness of the shell when using the Shell Interior option (see Type). In this case, the Volume corresponds to the volume of the shell, rather than the volume of the enclosed space. The Surface Area corresponds to the sum of the interior and exterior surface areas.

This option appears only when Shell Interior is turned on.

Mass Properties Editor

Units

Linear units used to display the results. These corresponds to the main linear units set in Preferences > Construction Options. For example, if the units are mm, the surface area will be given in square mm, and the volume in cubic mm.

Area, Volume, Centroid

These display fields show the results of the mass properties calculations you asked for in the option window.

Extract To File

Click this button to save the mass properties data to a text file.