gwbruce
Senior Member
Ok I have been following Too Tall Toby and his speed modeling tournament on YouTube. I really enjoy trying my hand at doing the same models in Alibre that everyone in the tournament are doing in other CAD systems. It is really helping me with my modeling in Alibre as sometimes I have to figure out the workflow that differs from the much more expensive CAD systems. I am a daily SW user at work. However I seem to have run across something that is making me scratch my head. I have modeled this part from last weeks competition.
The supplied material is Plain Carbon Steel with a density of 7800 kg/m^3. Which to me converts to 0.281793 lb/in^3. I set up a custom material using the correct method I believe. However, no matter what I do when I select this material and check the properties, I get the wrong mass. When I look at the properties screen, I see the material is plain carbon steel as selected, but the density is not correct.
it shows a density of .281541. No matter what I change the density to it always shows this. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Am I missing something? If I was using Alibre in the competition this could cause me to lose.
It was really great to see Alibre represented in the very first round and Ty almost pulled it off. Hoping that maybe next year other Alibre users will try their hand at speed modeling. Something like this might be a little discouraging.
Thanks for the helping me understand this.
The supplied material is Plain Carbon Steel with a density of 7800 kg/m^3. Which to me converts to 0.281793 lb/in^3. I set up a custom material using the correct method I believe. However, no matter what I do when I select this material and check the properties, I get the wrong mass. When I look at the properties screen, I see the material is plain carbon steel as selected, but the density is not correct.
it shows a density of .281541. No matter what I change the density to it always shows this. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Am I missing something? If I was using Alibre in the competition this could cause me to lose.
It was really great to see Alibre represented in the very first round and Ty almost pulled it off. Hoping that maybe next year other Alibre users will try their hand at speed modeling. Something like this might be a little discouraging.
Thanks for the helping me understand this.