There are times when you really need to know the mass properties of a design, before you build it.
In this Design World editorial Webinar, Jennifer Herron discusses best practices in managing mass properties in CAD assemblies.
Jennifer is the owner of Action Engineering, a company that specializes in the promotion, process development and standardization of 3D CAD Model Based Design. With over 16 years of experience creating and building complex hardware systems for the aerospace and defense industry, her experience runs the gamut from flight hardware mechanisms to spacecraft layout and configuration. She is an expert in multiple CAD packages, which she uses along with her practical design experience to hone standards and processes that optimize the ROI of CAD systems. In addition to her involvement developing many flight satellite systems, Jennifer has designed military robot platforms and holds a patent for a snake propulsion mechanism.
bacjac says
Great pitch on the importance of Mass Properties and the elusive goal of MBSE development in this area. SAWE has many resources for defining stages of the process Jennifer discussed; Addressing design maturity, historical data tracking, standard reporting, use of CAD as a mass properties tool… Check them out at http://www.sawe.org, and come to St. Louis this May.
Eoghan says
Very interesting, why do torus shapes not have their mass and moments of inertia accurately calculated?