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Re: Weighing the Robot

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Originally Posted by Gertlex View Post
I have, and solidworks refuses to tell me the mass of multiple parts in an assembly at once.

And I don't put the bolts in my assemblies.
Ah, sorry, I use Inventor. Our mentor claims Solidworks can do that, but I've never used it, sorry...

For physical measurements, we use a bathroom scale and a force plate that's part of our mentor(physics teacher)'s classroom materials.
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