Weight and Balance

Weight and Balance lets you visualize metrics such as weight, inertia matrix and center of gravity on any 3DEXPERIENCE engineering items.

No matter the industry, knowing the weight metrics of items is essential. You can define objective values and metric values on these items, and assess them, check their trends and drill down in the structure. This interactive analysis helps you follow your projects and make decisions.

Weight and Balance solutions are built upon the Business Target Definition, Business Value Definition, Business Activities Definition and Weight and Balance apps in the Weight & Balance Manager role, to collect data from the 3DEXPERIENCE and other sources.

This page discusses:

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Weight and Balance Basics
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Capabilities

Weight and Balance enables weight managers, designers and program managers to explore a structure under a weight perspective and track any weight-related inconsistency, with the following key capabilities:

  • Check the weight of assemblies, taking configured products into account
  • View parts for which weight is computed, missing, outdated or over the threshold values

For information on accessing the Weight and Balance app, see Opening an App from the Compass.

This product might use or depict Intellectual Property (IP) protected data. It is the user’s responsibility to safeguard the IP protected data when allowing others to view, export, or print the data. This includes the thumbnail representations of parts or assemblies used in markup screens. For more information on the use of IP Protection and safeguarding IP Protected data, see Social and Collaborative: Enterprise Modeling and Execution: IP Controlled Access.

Data Volumes

This section provides information on the data you can access in Weight and Balance.

Value Atom: The Value Atom is a concept defined for each Data Science Experience representing the value of the Data Science Experience.

Data Science Tokens (ATK): The number of Value Atoms used in a Data Science Experience consumes Data Science Tokens (DSLS License).

For the Weight and Balance Designer and Weight and Balance Manager roles, a Value Atom is defined as:

  • Engineering items and all their derivative objects
  • Configuration, filter and program milestone
  • Manufacturing items, defined as an entity associated with specific operations in a manufacturing process

One ATK corresponds to 2,500 weight Value Atoms.