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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Overview
- 1 About AutoCAD Mechanical
- AutoCAD Mechanical Software Package
- Leveraging Legacy Data
- Starting AutoCAD Mechanical
- AutoCAD Mechanical Help
- Product Support and Training Resources
- Design Features in AutoCAD Mechanical
- Mechanical Structure
- Associative Design and Detailing
- External References for Mechanical Structure
- Associative 2D Hide
- Autodesk Inventor link
- 2D Design Productivity
- Engineering Calculations
- Machinery Systems Generators
- Intelligent Production Drawing and Detailing
- Detailing Productivity
- Annotations
- Standard Mechanical Content
- Standard Parts Tools
- Collaboration
- 2 Commands in AutoCAD Mechanical
- 1 About AutoCAD Mechanical
- Design and Annotation Tools
- 3 Working with Templates
- 4 Using Mechanical Structure
- 5 Designing Levers
- 6 Working with Model Space and Layouts
- 7 Dimensioning
- 8 Working with 2D Hide and 2D Steel Shapes
- 9 Working with Standard Parts
- Key Terms
- Working with Standard Parts
- Inserting Screw Connections
- Copying Screw Connections with Power Copy
- Creating Screw Templates
- Editing Screw Connections with Power Edit
- Working with Power View
- Deleting with Power Erase
- Inserting Holes
- Inserting Pins
- Turning Off Centerlines in Configurations
- Hiding Construction Lines
- Simplifying Representations of Standard Parts
- 10 Working with BOMs and Parts Lists
- 11 Creating Shafts with Standard Parts
- Key Terms
- Creating Shafts
- Configuring Snap Options
- Configuring Shaft Generators
- Creating Cylindrical Shaft Sections and Gears
- Inserting Spline Profiles
- Inserting Chamfers and Fillets
- Inserting Shaft Breaks
- Creating Side Views of Shafts
- Inserting Threads on Shafts
- Editing Shafts and Inserting Sections
- Replacing Shaft Sections
- Inserting Bearings
- Engineering Calculations
- Autodesk Inventor Link
- Index
Save Title Block Filename dialog box 367
Scale Area dialog box 122
scale areas 32, 120–121
scale monitors 120
scale of viewports, default 39
Screw Assembly Grip Representation -
Front View dialog box 175
Screw Assembly Templates dialog
box 33, 182
Screw Calculation dialog box 313
Screw Connection dialog box 32, 170,
179, 183
Screw Connection New Part Front View
dialog box 186
screw connections 32
Screw Diameter Estimation dialog
box 183
screws 32, 178, 183, 311–313, 315–316,
320–321, 323–324, 326
calculations 311
connections 311
contact areas 320
loads and bending moments 321
material properties 313
precalculations 183
property class 315
result blocks 326
settlement properties 323
stand-alone calculations 312
templates 178
tightening properties 324
washers 316
scripts 33
sealing rings 33
Select a Blind Hole dialog box 195
Select a Cylindrical Pin dialog box 197
Select a Nut dialog box 316
Select a Row dialog box 314
Select a Screw dialog box 171, 314
Select Graph dialog box 268, 282
Select Part Size dialog box 199, 288
Select Template dialog box 100, 236,
362, 379
Set Value dialog box 221, 229
settlement properties in screw
calculations 323
Shaft Calculation dialog box 262
Shaft Generator dialog box 239
shafts 33–34, 38, 236, 240–241, 244,
246–249, 260, 268
breaks 236, 246
calculations 260, 268
commands that act on 38
contours 33
cylinders 240
generator 236, 260
lock nuts 34
module values 241
profiles 244
safety factors 33
side views 247
slopes 249
threads 248
shim rings 34
simple welds 34
slopes on shafts 249
slots, through 38
snap distance for balloons 215
snap settings 29, 102
Sort dialog box 227
sort parts lists 227
springs 15, 17, 21, 38, 299–300, 302
Belleville 299
calculations 299–300, 302
compression 299
extension 299
layouts 302
torsion 300
sprockets 17, 35, 285, 291
stability calculations 328
standard parts 29, 168
Standard Parts Database dialog box 35
steel shapes 35, 151, 156, 159
step width in cam calculations 342
Strength Calculation dialog box 271
strength calculations for shafts 260, 270
stress calculations 21, 260, 327
stress divisions 337
stress representations 335
stress tables 334
stress yield points 260
structure catalog 32
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