Whenever we work with designing physical objects, we will have to think about what materials we will choose to build that object. The objects can be made out of plastic, steel, iron, and so on. SOLIDWORKS provides us with an array of different materials to choose from. It also provides us with the properties of each of those materials such as density, strength, thermal conductivity, and other properties related to the specific material. Also, once we assign a material to our model, we can evaluate the different mass properties for our objects, such as the mass and the center of mass.

In this section, we will learn how to assign materials and how to evaluate the mass properties for our models. We will also learn how to override the evaluated mass properties.