AutoCAD Mechanical
Enhance your mechanical design skills with our AutoCAD Mechanical Essentials course! Learn professional 2D mechanical design and drafting using the industry-specific software from AutoCAD. This training covers key commands and techniques for efficient and effective mechanical CAD design, resulting in significant productivity gains.
per person
Level
Duration
Training Delivery Format
Face-to-face / Virtual Class
per person
Level
Duration
Training Delivery Format
Face-to-face (F2F) / Virtual Class
Class types
Public Class
Private Class
In-House Training
Bespoke
About this course
AutoCAD Mechanical training course teaches professional 2D mechanical design and drafting.
AutoCAD Mechanical engineering design software provides a design and drafting specifically for the manufacturing industry, within the familiar within AutoCAD environment. AutoCAD Mechanical simplifies and automates many common tasks, accelerating the mechanical CAD process resulting in significant productivity gains.
This AutoCAD Mechanical Essentials course teaches the key commands and techniques for professional 2D mechanical design and drafting using AutoCAD Mechanical.
Prerequisites
Delegates should be familiar with the fundamentals of standard AutoCAD.
Course Content
Lesson 1: AutoCAD Mechanical design concepts
- Interacting with the user interface
Lesson 2: User interface
- Common drawing setup
Lesson 3: Mechanical layers and layer control
- Layers
- Layer control
Lesson 4: Workflows for organising and creating drawing geometry
- Structuring data in drawings
- Reusing and editing structured data
Lesson 5: Tools for creating key geometry
- Core design tools
- Designing with lines
- Power snaps
- Centre lines
- Construction lines
- Adding standard feature data for holes and slots
Lesson 6: Tools for manipulating geometry
- Editing tools
- Power commands
- Associative hide
Lesson 7: Mechanical part generators
- Standard parts
- Chain/belt
- Shaft generator
- Standard shaft parts
- Springs
Lesson 8: Drawing sheets
- Creating drawing sheets in model space
- Model space views in layouts
- Annotation views when using structure
- Title blocks and drawing borders
Lesson 9: Dimensioning and annotating your drawings
- Annotation and annotation symbols
- Creating dimensions
- Editing dimensions
- Hole charts and fits lists
- Revision lists
Lesson 10: Bill of materials, parts lists and balloons
- Part references
- Bill of materials
- Inserting parts lists
- Ballooning parts
Lesson 11: Design calculations
- Design calculations
Lesson 12: Leveraging existing data
- Library
- DWG™ and IGES files
- Inventor link
Lesson 13: Mechanical options for the CAD manager
- Standards-based design
- Configure layer, text and symbol properties
- Configure the annotation tools
- Configure component properties, BOM, parts lists and balloons
At this time, this course is available for private class and in-house training only. Please contact us for any inquiries.