AutoCAD Mechanical

AutoCAD Mechanical software is a purpose-built 2D mechanical engineering design and drafting applicationthat offers significant productivity gains over standard AutoCAD software. It provides standards-based libraries of parts and content, tools for automating design tasks, and associative linking to Autodesk Inventor models to accelerate the mechanical design process and save hours of design time.

AutoCAD Mechanical includes support for international drafting standards, such as ANSI, BSI, CSN, DIN, GB, ISO, and JIS. Users can even customize these standards to fit the particular needs of their company. In addition, AutoCAD Mechanical offers thousands of standard parts such as pre-drawn steel shapes, screws, nuts, washers, pins, rivets, and bushings. Support for standards enables designers to communicate consistently, helping to reduce errors and misunderstandings on the shop floor.

With 2D mechanical structure, parts and their corresponding views can be conveniently grouped into real-world assemblies and subassemblies. This capability helps designers quickly find and understand all the important information for any part of the design essential to reusing designs and sharing them with the extended engineering team.

Using software specifically developed for mechanical designers improves the design experience by simplifying complex mechanical design work, allowing you to easily express, revise, and reuse your designs. And with the automation of many common tasks, you are able to boost your productivity and reduce the hours of rework caused by design changes.

AutoCAD Mechanical software offers powerful dimensioning tools that enable designers to use abbreviated dialog boxes to control only the relevant variables when creating dimensions. This advanced dimensioning method adheres to standards, making adding, deleting, and editing dimensions of parts and assembly drawings quick and easy. With automatic dimensioning, users can create multiple dimensions with minimal input, resulting in instant groups of ordinate, parallel, or symmetric items that are appropriately spaced. Smart dimensioning tools force overlapping dimensions to automatically space themselves appropriately while integrating tolerance and fit list information into the design.