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AutoCAD Mechanical
is a specialized 2D design tool that provides designers and engineers with additional functionality useful for complex mechanical design work.
AutoCAD® Mechanical is AutoCAD® software for manufacturing, purpose-built to accelerate the mechanical design process. It includes all the functionality of AutoCAD, a world leader in CAD software, plus a comprehensive set of tools for automating mechanical engineering tasks, such as generating machine components, dimensioning, and creating bills of material. It offers designers immediate productivity gains through tools that help improve accuracy and speed design time, including comprehensive libraries of standards-based parts, and tools for automating common design tasks. AutoCAD Mechanical’s innovative design and drafting tools are wholly focused on ease of use for the AutoCAD user. Keeping the AutoCAD user experience intact enables designers to maintain their existing workflows while adopting the enhanced functionality of AutoCAD Mechanical at their own pace.
To help designers prevent errors and costly delays, AutoCAD Mechanical is tightly integrated with the Autodesk
® Data Management applications. This enables efficient and secure exchange of design data and promotes earlier collaboration between design and manufacturing workgroups. Different workgroups can manage and track all components of a digital prototype allowing for better reuse of crucial design data, management of BOMs, and collaboration with other teams and partners.
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700,000 standard parts and features save you time and increases accuracy
- Powerful and smart dimensions improve communication accuracy
- Support for international drafting standards is necessary for the global market
- Associative balloons and automatic bills of materials (BOM) creation makes reporting efficient
- Layer management to easily navigate complex designs
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700,000 Standard Parts
700,000 standard parts and features increase productivity by allowing users to quickly add pre-drawn, standards-based content.
700,000 Standard Parts
700,000 standard parts and features increase productivity by allowing users to quickly add pre-drawn, standards-based content.
Additionally, these parts are intelligently incorporated with calculation tools to help determine recommended fits and sizes. This could be described as having a machinery handbook at your fingertips. Also, the surrounding geometry is automatically redrawn when parts are inserted. Below is a breakdown of the included parts:
- Standard Parts – Half a million pre-drawn standard parts including pre-drawn screws, nuts, washers, pins, rivets, bushings, rings, seals, bearings, keys, and others.
- Standard Features - 8,000 pre-drawn standard features including pre-drawn centerholes, undercuts, keyways, and thread ends.
- Standard Holes - Over 20,000 pre-drawn standard holes including pre-drawn through holes, blind holes, counterbored holes, countersunk holes, oblong holes, and others.
- Standard Structural Steel Shapes - Over 44,000 pre-drawn standard structural steel shapes.
- Standard Parts Tools - Features such as the screw connection, change representation, and Power View enhance productivity by making it easier to use the standard parts.
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Smart Dimensioning Tools
Powerful and Smart Dimensioning tools make drafting and annotation tasks 55% faster with 60% fewer commands required.
Smart Dimensioning Tools
Powerful and Smart Dimensioning tools make drafting and annotation tasks 55% faster with 60% fewer commands required.
Creating, editing, and arranging dimensions can take as much as 15% of the overall time to make a drawing. AutoCAD Mechanical provides simplified tools that will make it easier to designate specific mechanical notations and tools that speed up arranging and editing dimensions in groups. Just about anything you want to do with mechanical dimensions is possible with AutoCAD Mechanical.
Smart Dimensions
Dimensions that are created with AutoCAD Mechanical have extra intelligence about their arrangement with each other. Delete the middle dimension in a group and the others automatically arrange themselves to fill the gap. This feature saves time by making the appropriate changes to dimensions automatically to ensure they are at proper offset distances from the part and each other.
Power Dimension
The Power Dimension command creates any type of linear, radial, or diameter dimension depending on the geometry selected. It allows you to completely format the dimension and add fits or tolerances either on the fly or by editing it after the fact by issuing the same Power Dimension command. This one-stop command for creating and editing dimensions simplifies and speeds up your dimension creation and editing tasks.
Automatic Dimensioning
This command automatically dimensions 2D geometry with either ordinate or baseline dimensions. This saves time by making it easy to automatically dimension a design.
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Support For International Standards
Autodesk Mechanical includes support for international drafting standards so your designs comply with international standards easily, accurately, and consistently.
Support For International Standards
Autodesk Mechanical includes support for international drafting standards so your designs comply with international standards easily, accurately, and consistently.
The international drawing standards (ANSI, BSI, CSN, DIN, GB, ISO, JIS) are the building blocks of efficient and accurate communication of design intent for high quality manufacturing. AutoCAD Mechanical provides drafting standards as well as standard parts in many different international standards. Also included are the drafting standards for welding and surface finishes, Standards can be easily customized for your company’s specific needs.
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Associative Balloons and BOMs
Associative Balloons and Bill of Materials (BOMs) provide increased accuracy and an easy way to maintain and share important information.
Associative Balloons and BOMs
Associative Balloons and Bill of Materials (BOM) provide increased accuracy and an easy way to maintain and share important information.
A centralized BOM can manage multiple parts lists per drawing and keeps balloons and item numbers synchronized throughout the design process. In AutoCAD® Mechanical, BOMs automatically update with changes to the design and can be linked to MRP and ERP systems. Balloons and item numbers are synchronized so you don’t have to spend time redoing them when changes are made. Also, there is significant interoperability with Autodesk®Vault, for part and design management. There are numerous options and choices to easily adhere to company and industry standards. When using standard parts from the AutoCAD Mechanical libraries, all of the part attribute information is automatically populated and updated.
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Share Cross Platform Data
Data Exchange between CAD Systems allows AutoCAD Mechanical to share cross platform data efficiently between 2D and 3D.
Share Cross Platform Data
Data Exchange between CAD Systems allows AutoCAD Mechanical to share cross platform data efficiently between 2D and 3D.
This feature dramatically improves data translation workflows with an interoperable solution that is highly accurate and easy to update. Associative interoperability with Autodesk® Inventor® enables you to access and associatively document 3D models, while intelligent linking automatically notifies you of changes and updates views and annotations when the model changes. Visualize part models, examine and use part properties such as material, name, and number. The integration allows you to document part models using precision hidden-line removed projections, isometric views, dimensions, and annotations. IGES translation is directly integrated with AutoCAD Mechanical to facilitate efficient drawing exchange between dissimilar CAD systems. A STEP translator is also included for working with other types of design files.
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AutoCAD
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AutoCAD Mechanical
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Full AutoCAD Functionality
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Familiar AutoCAD Interface
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Powerful Drafting Tools
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DWG Compatibility
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700,000 Standard Parts & Features
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International Drafting Standards
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Machinery Generators and Calculators
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Smart Dimensioning
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Automatic Hidden Lines
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Associative Balloons & BOMS
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Integrated Data Management
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Autodesk Inventor Associativity
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