To compete and win in today’s design marketplace, engineers need to create and revise mechanical drawings faster than ever before. AutoCAD® Mechanical is AutoCAD software for manufacturing, offering significant productivity gains over standard AutoCAD by simplifying complex mechanical design work.
With comprehensive libraries of standards-based parts, and tools for automating common design tasks, AutoCAD Mechanical software accelerates the mechanical design process. AutoCAD Mechanical provides innovative design and drafting tools that 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. Designers gain a competitive edge by saving countless hours of design and rework, so they can spend time innovating rather than managing work flow issues.
Creating mechanical designs often requires spending valuable time on manual workarounds to get the job done. Since AutoCAD Mechanical provides a simplified drafting environment for manufacturing and automates many manual tasks, it improves the design experience and offers immediate efficiency gains. AutoCAD Mechanical delivers high-impact productivity tools to AutoCAD users who are performing updates and iterative design changes, reducing the amount of rework associated with these tasks. In addition, powerful dimensioning tools make adding, deleting, and editing dimensions fast and easy. Built to save you time, AutoCAD Mechanical has a specific tool for almost every aspect of the mechanical drafting process.
Once a design is complete, it is important to share accurate design and part information with the teams responsible for ordering and manufacturing the product. Using software that is not purpose-built for these tasks often means creating crucial parts lists and BOMs by hand. With manual methods, even the smallest design change can introduce errors, resulting in delivery delays to the customer.
To help your company prevent errors and costly delays, AutoCAD Mechanical is tightly integrated with Autodesk® Data Management applications, enabling the efficient and secure exchange of design data and promoting 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.
- Includes libraries of more than 700,000 standard parts
- Supports international drafting standards, enabling users to consistently meet design requirements in the global marketplace
- Documents native AutoCAD Inventor® models in the familiar AutoCAD drafting environment, automatically synchronizing drawings with the 3D model, resulting in reduced errors and inconsistencies which saves hours of rework
- Assists team members in maintaining clear and consistent communication in the design and documentation process, avoiding delays and errors on the shop floor
AutoCAD Mechanical 2011 includes numerous improvements, from usability features, BOMs, balloons, and part lists to symbols and power dimension enhancements, including improved in-place editing functionality. AutoCAD Mechanical 2011 continues to offer mechanical engineers a competitive edge by saving them countless hours of effort. A summary of new features in AutoCAD Mechanical 2011 can be found on our “What’s New in Autodesk 2011” webpage .For a complete listing of new features, download the AutoCAD Mechanical 2011 technical documentation.