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• Design Tools

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  Designs Tools Course Outline

  (Course Duration: 55 minutes)

   

  Overview

  AutoCAD Mechanical toolset provides several tools to create mechanical-related geometry with purpose-built command make the process od building design and drawings.

   

  Course Objectives

  The material presented in this course teach you how to:

  · Use Rectangle creation tools

  · Create Zig-Zag lines

  · Create Section lines

  · Create Offset Lines

  · Rotate Geometry

  · Join Geometry

  · Understand and Use Construction Lines

  · Create Holes

  · Create Counter Bore and Counter sink Holes

  · Create Slots

  · Create Fillets and Chamfers

  · Create Center Lines

  · Use Power Erase

  · Use Power copy

  · Apply Drawing Constraints to Geometry

  · Add Fill and hatch to a closed profile

  · Create and Edit Shaft Geometry

  · Create Springs

  · Create Chan and Belt Geometry

  · Create Structural Steel Shapes

  · Manage Content

  · Understand Structure

  · Create Structure

   

  Course Prerequisites

  To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

  · Completion of Getting Started Course

   

  Comments

  Using purpose-built command will speed up the process of creating your designs.

   

   

• Getting Started

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  Getting Started Course Outline

  (Course Duration: 20 minutes)

   

  Overview

  The AutoCAD Mechanical tool set is AutoCAD for mechanical engineering design, created to accelerate the mechanical CAD process within the AutoCAD environment.

   

  Course Objectives

  The material presented in this course teach you how to:

  · Learn about AutoCAD Mechanical functionality

  · Navigate the User Interface

  · Customized the User Interface

  · Learn about the Help system

  · Learn about AutoCAD Mechanical layers

   

  Course Prerequisites

  To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

  · None

   

  Comments

  Take AutoCAD to the next level using specialized tool sets.

   

   

• Standards & Preferences Course

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  Standards & Preferences Course Outline

  (Course Duration: 25 minutes)

   

  Overview

  To set standards, you create a file that defines properties for layers, dimension styles, line types, and text styles, and you save it as a standards file with the .dws file name extension.

   

  Course Objectives

  The material presented in this course teach you how to:

  · Explain the AutoCAD Mechanical standards

  · Understand the different aspects of the standards

  · Configure Standards for Structure, Drawings, Content, shaft and Calculations

  · Set Preferences

   

  Course Prerequisites

  To participate in this training course, you should have the following:

  · Completion of Getting Started course for AutoCAD Mechanical

   

  Comments

  It’s a good idea to have your Standards and Preferences defined before starting any drawings.