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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
Before you begin this tutorial...
This tutorial requires the mechanical browser. If the mechanical browser is
not visible:
1 Enter AMBROWSER on the command line and press ENTER.
2 When prompted, enter ON and press ENTER.
To load the tutorial drawing
1 Open the file tut_chain.dwg in the Tutorial folder.
Ribbon
➤ Open ➤ Drawing
File ➤ Open
Menu
OPENCommand
NOTE The path to the folder containing tutorial files is;
■ Windows Vista
®
: C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Autodesk\ACADM
2010\Acadm\Tutorial
■ Windows
®
XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared
Documents\Autodesk\ACADM 2010\Acadm\Tutorial
2 Save your file under a different name to preserve the original tutorial file.
3 Use a window to Zoom in to the chain housing.
Ribbon
View tab ➤ Navigate panel ➤ Extents drop-down
➤
View ➤ Zoom ➤ Zoom, Window
Menu
ZOOMCommand
4 Respond to the prompts as follows:
[All/Center/Dynamic/Extents/Previous/Scale/Window/Object] <real
time>:
Enter W, press ENTER
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