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Calculating Shafts
With AutoCAD Mechanical, you can perform a shaft calculation using a
contour created with the Shaft Generator, or any other symmetric shaft
contour. The function provides a static calculation, which is important for
the design of the shaft and the bearing load.
In this tutorial, you calculate a gearbox shaft. The general way to calculate an
existing shaft is to define the contour and insert forces and supports. The
routine calculates all necessary values and draws the respective graphs for
moment and deflection.
Mechanical structure does not impact this engineering structure routine. You
can calculate shafts with mechanical structure enabled or disabled.
Load the initial drawing.
To open a file
1 Open the file tut_shafts in the acadm\tutorial folder.
Toolbutton
File Open
Menu
OPENCommand
The drawing contains a shaft in front and side view.
2 Zoom in to the shaft.
Toolbutton
View Zoom Window
Menu
ZOOMCommand
3 Respond to the prompts as follows:
Specify first corner: Specify the first corner point (1)
Specify opposite corner: Specify the second corner point (2)
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