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Measuring Mass and Inertia

October 27, 2010 27 comments

You have probably used the Inertia measure function in CATIA to get mass and inertia measures but did you know that you can automate those measurements as well?  The inertia object that you may use in your programs works just like the interactive command and provides all the same capabilities you are used to.  In this article, I will show how to program with the inertia object and as usual I will provide sample code and some handy reusable functions. Read more…