Interactive Center Of Mass

[pamakela]

Hello 'yall!

I'm studying industrial design and have a small project involving that of moving the internal parts of a device to come up with a better weight distribution. The goal is to improve the device's ergonomics this way.

Is there a way of simulating the center of mass in Maya, so that I'd have a group of mock-up objects (with their masses input via extra attributes) and then there'd be some locator at the center of mass? This mass center locator would then update interactively if the mock-up pieces are moved around.

I'm thinking this could be done using MEL and assigning the masses as additional attributes. Does this sound Ok? Is there an already existing script/solution for this?

Thanks!

ps. hope I posted this in the right forum..

[joojaa]

QUOTE(pamakela @ 11/16/08, 12:43 PM) [snapback]295290[/snapback]
Is there a way of simulating the center of mass in Maya, so that I'd have a group of mock-up objects (with their masses input via extra attributes) and then there'd be some locator at the center of mass? This mass center locator would then update interactively if the mock-up pieces are moved around.

Possibly toughit depends if you indtend to reshape the volume maya my not be the pest possible tool for this. Any cad app will do.

Anyway do you knw the rel