Unable to assign Material to part for a step file

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

I imported a part from UGNX as  a step file. This model was assigned with some material to it in UGNX. But in Inspire when I tried assigning material to it, its mass is still showing zero kg. How can I overcome this problem?

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2018

    Hi,

     

    Can you check if your part only contains surfaces but no solid volume?

    You could open Property Editor in View menu, and check the thickness or volume of your part their. Does your part have non-zero volume?

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  • Matthieu Pupat
    Matthieu Pupat
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2018

    Hello,

     

    A zero mass part indicates a part that is not solid. Please use the Patch tool to check if there is an opening in your solid that makes our geometry being a shell only. You can use this same tool to close that gap and convert your geometry to a solid.

     

    Matthieu

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2018

    Yes it was not a solid part. i had imported it as a step file which may have created this problem. I imported it as parasolid file later which resolved the problem.

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