9 nov. 2026
Overlapping CAD Solids: When a Volume Total Is 20% Too High
Technical note prepared for CADProps with AI assistance. The example below uses synthetic geometry and checked arithmetic. It is not a report of a CAD software test or a customer project. Two valid solids can produce a misleading material estimate even when their individual volumes are correct. If they overlap, adding their volumes counts the shared region twice. Whether that is an error depends…