NX How to get volume for a solid or facet body

2024-01-22T12:36:35Z
NX for Design

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How to get the volume of a Solid Body, or a Facet Body imported from an STL file?

Solution

Volume of a Solid Body:
Select in the Menu, 'Analysis-->Measure'.
Select the solid body (it may be helpful to set the Selection Filter to 'Solid Body').
The pop-up will report the volume of the solid body.  

Volume of an imported STL file:
File--Import-->STL.
Browse and select the STL file to import.
Facet Body Output Type = NX
OK the STL Import dialog.
In the Menu under 'Analysis-->Measure'.
Object to Measure = Object.
Select the facet body (it may be helpful to set the Selection Filter to 'Facet Body').
In the Result Filter, select the 'Others' icon (last icon in the row) to show approximate information.
The pop-up will show the approximate volume of the facet body.

Notes

KB Article ID# PL8524836

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