Hi Guys.
Can anyone tell me how to get the EXTERIOR surface area of a multi body part.
I need exterior surface area to quantify paint volumes, Solidworks evaluate gives a total surface area, but this includes internal areas of box section and tube.
I know In the evaluate tab I can pick a surface, but if I have a complex multi body part this is no use.
Thanks in advance.
Depending on the number of internal surfaces, this is one of the tricks that I used to use:
click on a surface, select "invert selection" (this will select all but the original surface), ctrl click the faces that you want to remove, select the measure tool - this will give you the area of all the selected surfaces.
it's ugly, but it works (as long as you don't have to remove too many surfaces and they are somewhat easily to select.)