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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
DescriptionCommand NameIcon
Analyzes the current drawing and writes layer
information to an ALZ file.
AMANALYSEDWG
Creates a textual annotation that can be at-
tached to an object in a drawing view.
AMANNOTE
Creates a hatch that updates when you
modify its boundaries.
AMASSOHATCH
Creates vertical and horizontal construction
lines on all endpoints of selected objects.
AMAUTOCLINES
Moves the selected objects to an external
drawing file and creates an xref to it within
the current drawing.
AMAUTODETAIL
Creates multiple dimensions from a selected
point to all the vertices on the contour of se-
lected objects.
AMAUTODIM
Creates and places balloons in the drawing
area.
AMBALLOON
Determines the limiting value, dynamic and
static load rating, dynamic and static equival-
ent load, and fatigue life of a bearing.
AMBEARCALC
Performs a spring calculation and inserts a
Bellville washer spring in the drawing area.
AMBELL2D
Inserts a blind hole from the content library.AMBHOLE2D
Creates, edits, or deletes Bills of Materials
(BOMs).
AMBOM
Creates an extraction template to be used by
BOM Migration Utility.
AMBOMEXTTEMP
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