Power tools for mechanical design.
The AutoCAD Mechanical Advantage To compete and win in today’s design marketplace, engineers need to create and revise mechanical drawings faster than ever before. AutoCAD Mechanical software offers significant productivity gains over basic AutoCAD software by simplifying complex mechanical design work. ® ® Contents Error Checking and Prevention...................3 Standards-Based Drafting and Part Libraries.......................................... 4 Machinery Generators and Calculators..................
Error Checking and Prevention Creating mechanical drawings with generic software can inadvertently introduce design errors and inconsistencies, wasting both time and money. AutoCAD Mechanical helps designers catch errors before they cause costly delays. Scaling Save hours of rework by maintaining only one copy of a drawing, instead of multiple copies at different scales. AutoCAD Mechanical offers several options for scaling drawings to fit on larger or smaller paper sizes.
Standards-Based Drafting and Part Libraries Realize consistent results on the shop floor by producing accurate designs using a comprehensive set of more than 700,000 standard parts. Standard Part Favorites Customize AutoCAD Mechanical to fit your workflow. Users can now save frequently used parts as favorites, where they can be accessed quickly for easy reuse.
Standards-Based Drafting and Part Libraries 2d Structural Steel Shapes Create designs more quickly and accurately using predrawn geometry. AutoCAD Mechanical contains more than 11,000 predrawn standard structural steel shapes that users can incorporate quickly into any design. These include common structural shapes such as U-shape, I-shape, T-shape, L-shape, Z-shape, rectangular tube, round tube, rectangular full beam, and rectangular round beam.
Machinery Generators and Calculators Accelerate the design process and improve design accuracy with a comprehensive collection of automated machinery generators and calculators. Spring Generator Select, calculate, and insert compression springs, extension springs, torsion springs, and Belleville spring washers into a design using the spring generator, a fast, valuable, and easy-to-use tool. Control the representation type of the spring, and create a specification form to incorporate in the drawing.
Machinery Generators and Calculators Belt and Chain Generator Quickly and easily create chain and belt assemblies that are based on engineering calculations for optimum performance. Automatically calculate optimal lengths for chains and belts based on user input, and insert these assemblies into a design. Simply select belts and chains from the standard libraries to get started.
Design and Drafting Productivity Tools Built to save users time, AutoCAD Mechanical has a specific tool for almost every aspect of the mechanical design process. Mechanical Drawing Toolbar Create drawings more accurately with purposebuilt tools.
Design and Drafting Productivity Tools Associative Detailing Tools Update drawings quickly with powerful tools that enable users to edit previous operations, saving valuable design time. Easily re-edit features without having to remove and re-create the original feature. For example, resize a chamfer using the original dialog parameters by simply double-clicking the chamfer. Software Developer Kit (SDK) Customize and combine features in AutoCAD Mechanical to achieve higher levels of productivity.
Data Management and Reporting Tools AutoCAD Mechanical helps workgroups organize and manage valuable design data and provide accurate reports to downstream users. Language Translation Accelerate language translation and simplify international communications with built-in tools. AutoCAD Mechanical offers a basic library of prewritten language strings that can automatically translate drawing text from one language to another. The library is an open format that can be expanded and modified.
Interoperability and Collaboration The intelligent file formats in AutoCAD Mechanical and tight integration with Autodesk manufacturing products facilitate collaboration by enabling workgroups to share accurate design information reliably and securely. ® DWF Technology Publish DWF™ files directly from Autodesk manufacturing design applications, and securely collaborate on 2d and 3d designs with customers, suppliers, planners, and others outside your engineering workgroup.
Digital Prototyping for the Manufacturing Market Autodesk is a world-leading supplier of engineering software, providing companies with tools to help them experience their ideas before they are real. By putting powerful Digital Prototyping technology within the reach of mainstream manufacturers, Autodesk is changing the way manufacturers think about their design processes and is helping them create more productive workflows.
