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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Part 1 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
- Part 2 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
- Part 3 Engineering Calculations
- Part 4 Autodesk Inventor Link
- Index
Designing Levers
In this tutorial, you start with a lever inserted from the parts library, and then you refine the
design using many of the design options available in AutoCAD
®
Mechanical. You also create
a drawing detail and add dimensions to it.
Key Terms
DefinitionTerm
Lines, which are infinite in both directions or rays, which are
infinite starting at a point that can be inserted into the drawing
construction lines
area. You use construction lines to transfer important points
(for example, center points of holes) into other views or
drawing areas.
A line or an arc created with construction lines. Using construc-
tion geometry in 2D drawings helps define the shape of a
contour.
construction geometry
A portion of a design drawing that cannot be clearly displayed
or dimensioned in the overall representation but can be en-
larged to show the details.
detail
To give the dimensions in a drawing a uniform appearance,
Power Dimensioning and Automatic Dimensioning enable
distance snap
automatic insertion of the dimension line at a defined distance
from the object being dimensioned. While dragging the di-
mension line dynamically, you will find that it remains “fixed”
and is highlighted in red as soon as the required distance to
the object being dimensioned is reached.
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