I am doing a design on a Fly Reel that consists of 30 parts. An important criteria is the final overall weight of the reel. So once the materials were specified on each individual component, I first did an overall weight of the assembly and got 9.7 ounces. (after conversion from Kilograms to ounces). Then I redid the total weight by summing the individual part weights and totaled the results and got 9.2 ounces total. This is close to a 6% difference.
I redid all the calculations again to confirm.
Am I missing something or is someone else seeing that their weight results different if calculating as an assembly or using the sum of individual parts.
I redid all the calculations again to confirm.
Am I missing something or is someone else seeing that their weight results different if calculating as an assembly or using the sum of individual parts.