It’s a sad day when you go to override the mass properties in your model and you lose your Moment of Inertia, your Center of Gravity and your will to live. It doesn’t have to be that way though. You could do what Marc Monaghan did… scream your lungs out your chest, put them back in, scream again, then write a macro that keeps your CG and lets you change your SolidWorks assembly mass. just. like. that.
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How to Create a Meaty Mid-Plane (Boundary) Sweep in SolidWorks
How to Create a Meaty Mid-Plane (Boundary) Sweep in SolidWorks
Meaty Sweeps. You can gnaw on them all day like a charred piece of sandy camel leather. (Your computer can too.) But what are you to do when you want to send a profile merrily down a path in two directions? at once? in SolidWorks?! Well, can’t be done. BUT, you can use a single set of sketches and a couple features to get that sweep going the direction you want. You can even add in dimension driven constraints! Yes, imagine it for a moment. Take it all in. Then hit the jump to download the file and see how it’s all done.





