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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Part I Overview
- 01 About AutoCAD Mechanical
- AutoCAD Mechanical Software Package
- Leveraging Legacy Data
- Starting AutoCAD Mechanical
- Accessing AutoCAD Mechanical Commands
- 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 Companion Support
- 2D Design Productivity
- Engineering Calculations
- Machinery Systems Generators
- Intelligent Production Drawing and Detailing
- Detailing Productivity
- Annotations
- Standard Mechanical Content
- Standard Parts Tools
- Collaboration
- 02 Commands in AutoCAD Mechanical
- 03 New and Revised Commands
- 01 About AutoCAD Mechanical
- Part II Design and Annotation Tools
- 04 Working with Templates
- 05 Using Mechanical Structure
- 06 Working with Layers and Layer Groups
- 07 Designing Levers
- 08 Working with Model Space and Layouts
- 09 Dimensioning
- 10 Working with 2D Hide and 2D Steel Shapes
- 11 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
- 12 Working with BOMs and Parts Lists
- 13 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
- 14 Calculating Shafts
- Part III Engineering Calculations
- Part IV Autodesk Inventor Link
- Appendix A Layer Specifications
- Appendix B Title Block Attributes
- Appendix C Accelerator and Shortcut Keys
- Index
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Working with Mechanical Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Enabling Mechanical structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Creating Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Modifying Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Nesting Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Instance vs. Occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Selection Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Components and Component Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Creating Part Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Creating Assembly Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Modifying Assembly Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Using Folders with Component Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Mechanical Browser Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Mechanical Browser and Bombs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Browser Restructure and Ghost Components . . . . . . . . . . . 90
External Reference Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Inserting External Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Editing External Components In-place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Localizing and Externalizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Annotation Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Associative Hide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Basics of AMSHIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Using AMSHIDE in Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Chapter 6
Working with Layers and Layer Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Working with Layers and Layer Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Changing Layers By Selecting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Creating Layer Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Using Layer Groups to Copy Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Chapter 7
Designing Levers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Extending Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Using Libraries to Insert Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Configuring Snap Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Creating Construction Lines (C-Lines) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Creating additional C-Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Creating Contours and Applying Fillets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Trimming Projecting Edges on Contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Applying Hatch Patterns to Contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Dimensioning Contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
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