2009

tips for creating 45
types, changing 39
displays, graphics window 139
Document Settings dialog box 3
DOF (degrees of freedom) 175
draft styles, Primary Zebra 100
draft views in drawings 220, 232
draft, analyzing 100
drawing dimensions 244
Drawing Resources folder 210
drawing sheets, printing 263
drawing view types 221
drawings 203–205, 211–212, 214, 216,
220, 222, 232, 234, 236, 243,
249–250, 253, 257, 259–260, 262–
263
borders 212
creating 205
dimensions, creating 243, 257
model dimensions, editing 205
model dimensions, formatting 259
multiview, creating 222
notes and leader text 260
parts lists, creating 243
plotting and printing 263
sheets, adding 211
templates 204
thread representations 249
tips for creating 216
title blocks 214, 250, 262
views, creating 220, 250
views, modifying 232
views, moving 211, 234, 236
views,modifying 253
Drive Constraint dialog box 177
Drive Constraint tool 176
driven dimensions 41
E
Edit Constraint dialog box 148
Edit Dimension dialog box 37, 40, 43
Edit Feature dialog box 66
Edit Parts List dialog box 243
editable locations 111
environments 22, 54, 131
assembly 131
part modeling 54
sketch 22
Extrude tool 58
F
faces on models, analyzing 100
features 55, 58, 60–64, 66, 69–70, 73,
75, 79, 84, 88, 90–91, 105
base 55
chamfer 69, 75
coil 63
editing 66
extrude 58
fillet 69, 73, 79
hole 69–70, 91
lofted 62
mirrored 69
pattern 69, 90
placed 69
revolve 60
rib and web 64
shell 69, 88
sketched 58
swept 61
thread 69, 84
work 105
file locations 111, 113, 125, 127, 276,
278
Autodesk Mechanical Desktop 125
Content Library 127
editable 111
read-only 111
search order 276, 278
workgroup and workspace 113
file names 129
file storage in projects 113
file structures, changing 290
files 2, 112, 115, 129, 203, 276, 279,
281–282, 289
deleting in projects 289
drawing 203
naming 129, 281
old versions, keeping 281–282
Index | 295