Autodesk AutoCAD Mechanical Essentials Training Course
Course Length: 16-Hours
8-Hours – 2 x 4-hour training sessions and basic setup
Remote training over MS Teams
Sessions are recorded and download links for each session are provide for future use
Training for up to 1-3 People
Sessions can start within 7 days upon ordering
Flexible sessions (i.e. consecutive or Monday, Wednesday, Friday, etc.)
Courses are private and topics can be customised to suit
Includes Certificate of Completion
Training manuals are additional $159 each for soft copy
The AutoCAD Mechanical Essentials training course teaches students about the indispensable core topics required to use the AutoCAD® Mechanical software. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum, students acquire the knowledge needed to accelerate the mechanical design process.
With specific tools for creating and manipulating geometry, automatically acquiring bills of materials, generating mechanical components, and performing design calculations, the AutoCAD Mechanical software offers significant productivity gains that the student learns to maximise.
Topics Covered:
Identify the main interface elements, their setup and what Help information is available, and to create and use drawing template files.
Describe the object property management system in which layers are configured and the tools for manipulating layers.
Describe the workflows for organizing drawing geometry and create a Mechanical structure in a drawing by creating components, component views, and folders.
Describe the core mechanical design tools of rectangle, hatch, fillet, chamfer, holes, slots, and threads and how to use them to create and modify geometry in your drawings.
Modify and edit drawing objects by creating multiple offset copies, scaling them with separate values for the X and Y direction, or using a power command.
Insert industry standard parts into your assembly designs.
Create production-ready drawings in model space and layouts of structured and non-structured geometry and insert title blocks and borders.
Notate a drawing through the creation and editing of dimensions, hole charts, fits lists, and mechanical symbols.
Explain how to create and edit a bill of materials, parts list, and balloons.
Describe the tools that you can use to verify whether or not the standard parts or custom parts within your design meet or exceed the requirements for operational use.
Exchange data between CAD systems in the form of Mechanical DWG™ and IGES files and create Mechanical drawings using Inventor Link.
Create a custom drafting standard and drawing template that includes the configuration settings for layers, object properties, symbols, text, BOMs, parts list, balloons, and other annotation tools.
Prerequisites:
This course is designed for users who are new to the AutoCAD Mechanical software.
A basic understanding of mechanical drafting or design.
A working knowledge of the AutoCAD® software.
A working knowledge of the Microsoft® Windows® 10 or 11 operating system.
Contents
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Lesson: Interacting with the User Interface
Lesson: Common Drawing Setup
Chapter 2: Object Property and Layer Management
Lesson: Property Management
Lesson: Layer Control
Chapter 3: Organizing Drawing Geometry
Lesson: Drawing Creation Workflows and Organization
Lesson: Structuring Data in Drawings
Lesson: Reusing and Editing Structured Data
Chapter 4: Tools for Creating Key Geometry
Lesson: Core Design Tools
Lesson: Power Snaps
Lesson: Centerlines
Lesson: Construction Lines
Lesson: Designing with Lines
Lesson: Adding Standard Feature Data for Holes and Slots
Chapter 5: Tools for Manipulating Geometry
Lesson: Editing Tools
Lesson: Power Commands
Lesson: Associative Hide
Chapter 6: Mechanical Part Generators
Lesson: Standard Parts
Lesson: Chains and Belts
Lesson: Shaft Generator
Lesson: Standard Shaft Parts
Lesson: Springs
Chapter 7: Creating Drawing Sheets
Lesson: Model Space Views in Layouts
Lesson: Creating Drawing Sheets in Model Space
Lesson: Annotation Views When Using Structure
Lesson: Title Blocks and Drawing Borders
Chapter 8: Dimensioning and Annotating Drawings
Lesson: Annotation and Annotation Symbols
Lesson: Creating Dimensions
Lesson: Editing Dimensions
Lesson: Hole Charts and Fits Lists
Lesson: Revision Lists
Chapter 9: Bill of Materials, Parts Lists, and Balloons
Lesson: Part References
Lesson: Bill of Materials
Lesson: Inserting Parts Lists
Lesson: Ballooning Parts
Chapter 10: Design Calculations
Lesson: Design Calculations
Chapter 11: Leveraging Your Existing Data
Lesson: DWG Files
Lesson: IGES Files
Lesson: Model Documentation
Chapter 12: Mechanical Options for the CAD Manager
Lesson: Standards-Based Design
Lesson: Configure Layer, Text, and Object Properties
Lesson: Configure the Annotation Tools
Lesson: Configure Component Properties, BOMs, Parts Lists, and Balloons
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