Finding Volume of an Odd-Shapped Box?

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Assuming that both the triangles on the top an bottom are identical, just take each triangle find the area, then multiply it by the diangonal height to find the volume of each trinagle cylinder on each side, then find the area in the square in the middle of the two triangles, and multiply again by the diagonal height. Then you are left with a wedge shape after simplifying it down by solving for the complicated area in the front. Make sure to subtract the material thickness where need. Using that method should get you really close, since slanted material calls for subtracting a little more than material thickness due to the Potagorean Theorum.

 

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Jdawg the reason I said Calc 3, is because we learned to calculate awkward shapes using integrals and eqn's of planes and contraints, in short we learned the mathmatical way to do it. For example we learned to calculate the volume of a sphere that was sliced randomly, so basically it has a slice missing. And so on But I finally realized how to do it the easy way.

 

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If you built it in Solidworks with the material thickness subtracted out it would tell you the volume of the enclosure.