AutoCAD Mech 2010 User Guide - Autodesk

AutoCAD Mechanical 2010

User's Guide

January 2009

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Contents

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 1

About AutoCAD Mechanical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

AutoCAD Mechanical Software Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Leveraging Legacy Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Starting AutoCAD Mechanical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 AutoCAD Mechanical Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Product Support and Training Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Design Features in AutoCAD Mechanical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Mechanical Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Associative Design and Detailing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 External References for Mechanical Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Associative 2D Hide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Autodesk Inventor link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2D Design Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Engineering Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Machinery Systems Generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Intelligent Production Drawing and Detailing . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Detailing Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Standard Mechanical Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Standard Parts Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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Chapter 2 Commands in AutoCAD Mechanical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Command Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Design and Annotation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Chapter 3

Working with Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Working with Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Setting Mechanical Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Specifying Drawing Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Saving Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Using Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Setting Default Standards Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Chapter 4

Using Mechanical Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Working with Mechanical Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Creating Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Modifying Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Nesting Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Instance vs. Occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Selection Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Components and Component Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Creating Part Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Creating Assembly Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Modifying Assembly Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Using Folders with Component Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Mechanical Browser Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Mechanical Browser and BOMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Browser Restructure and Ghost Components . . . . . . . . . . . 78 External Reference Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Inserting External Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Editing External Components In-place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Localizing and Externalizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Annotation Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Associative Hide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Basics of AMSHIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Using AMSHIDE in Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Chapter 5

Designing Levers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Extending Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

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Using Libraries to Insert Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Configuring Snap Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Creating Construction Lines (C-Lines) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Creating additional C-Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Creating Contours and Applying Fillets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Trimming Projecting Edges on Contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Applying Hatch Patterns to Contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Dimensioning Contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Creating and Dimensioning Detail Views . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Chapter 6

Working with Model Space and Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Working with Model Space and Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Creating Scale Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Creating Detail Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Generating New Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Inserting Holes Within Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Creating Subassemblies in New Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Chapter 7

Dimensioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Adding Dimensions to Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Adding Multiple Dimensions Simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Editing Dimensions with Power Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Breaking Dimension Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Inserting Drawing Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Inserting Fits Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Chapter 8

Working with 2D Hide and 2D Steel Shapes . . . . . . . . . . 159

Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Working with 2D Hide and 2D Steel Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Opening the initial drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Defining 2D Hide Situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Inserting 2D Steel Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Modifying Steel Shapes Using Power Commands . . . . . . . . . 167 Editing 2D Hide Situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Copying and Moving 2D Hide Situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Chapter 9

Working with Standard Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Key Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Working with Standard Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Inserting Screw Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Copying Screw Connections with Power Copy . . . . . . . . . . 184

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