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AutoCAD® Mechanical Top 10 Reasons to Move from AutoCAD®
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AutoCAD® for Manufacturing
� AutoCAD plus more
� Purpose-built mechanical design tools
� Automated tasks
Standards-based parts libraries
AutoCAD® Mechanical 2012 Software
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� Standards-based parts libraries
� Autodesk® Inventor ® Interoperability
� Fully native DWG™
Independent Study of ACAD/M versus ACAD
� Drafting and annotation tasks are 55% faster
� Design and engineering tasks are 85% faster
� 60% fewer commands required
Proven Benefits of Mechanical-Specific CAD
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Go to www.autodesk.com/autocadmechanical for the entire study
Top 10 Reasons to Move to AutoCAD® Mechanical 2012 Software
1. 700,000 Standard Parts and Features
2. Extended Draw Toolbar for
Manufacturing
3. Powerful and Smart Dimensions
4. Reusable Detailing Tools
5. Support for International Drafting
Standards
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Standards
6. Associative Balloons and Bills of
Materials (BOMs)
7. Layer Management
8. Automatic Hidden Lines
9. Machinery Generators and Calculators
10. Data Exchange Between CAD Systems
#1 700k Standard Parts and Features
Customer Need
Increase productivity by using pre-drawn,
standards-based content
AutoCAD® Mechanical Delivers
� A machinery handbook at your fingertips � Fasteners, bearings, holes, steel shapes…
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� Fasteners, bearings, holes, steel shapes…
� Screw calculations, recommended fits and sizes…
� Easy part insertion� Surrounding geometry automatically redraws
when parts are inserted
#2 Extended Draw Toolbar for Manufacturing
Customer Need Reduce repetitive drafting tasks
AutoCAD® Mechanical Delivers� More than 30 options for rectangle, arc,
and circle creation
� Automated centerline creation
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� Automated centerline creation
� Specialty lines for break outs and sections
� Full suite of construction lines
� Manufacturing hatch patterns and sizes
#3 Powerful and Smart Dimensioning
Customer Need Faster ways to create, edit, and arrange dimensions
AutoCAD® Mechanical Delivers� Automatic dimensioning with baseline,
ordinate, symmetric and shaft styles
Dimensions arrange automatically
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� Dimensions arrange automatically based on standard spacing
� Align, join, break, check, rescale or edit multiple dimensions
� Integrated fits, tolerances, and symbols
#4 Reusable Detailing Tools
Customer Need
Intelligent detailing that automatically updates
with design changes
AutoCAD® Mechanical Delivers
� Detail views – easily create
linked views at different scales
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linked views at different scales
� Chamfers and fillets – change the size
with a simple double-click
� Hole charts – updated automatically
for the shop floor
� Title blocks – a full set of English
and metric versions
#5 International Drafting Standards
Customer Need
Comply with international standards easily,
accurately, and consistently
AutoCAD® Mechanical Delivers
� Pre-packaged international standards
(ANSI, BSI, CSN, DIN, GB, ISO, JIS)
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(ANSI, BSI, CSN, DIN, GB, ISO, JIS)
� GD&T, welding, surface finishes, etc.
� Easily customized for your company
#6 Associative Balloons & Bill of Materials
Customer Need An accurate Bill of Materials that is easy to maintain and share
AutoCAD® Mechanical Delivers� An accurate and complete BOM
� BOM automatically updates w/ changes
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� BOM automatically updates w/ changes
� Synchronized balloons and item numbers
� Link BOM to MRP and ERP systems
� Interoperability w/ Autodesk Vault
#7 Layer Management
Customer Need
Spend less time managing layers and object properties
AutoCAD® Mechanical Delivers
� Automatic layer & property selection � Pre-configured templates conform to international drafting standards
� Easily customized for your company
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Easily customized for your company
Customer Need
Easily create accurate hidden lines
AutoCAD® Mechanical Delivers
� Automatic 2D hidden-line creation
� No need to re-draw parts
� Associative relationships are
#8 Automatic Hidden Lines
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� Associative relationships are
updated automatically
� Consistent part definitions
#9 Machinery Generators and Calculators
Customer Need
Save time creating machinery with automated
generators and calculators
AutoCAD® Mechanical Delivers
� Machinery systems generators� Springs
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� Springs
� Shafts
� Cams
� Chain/Belt Drives
� Engineering calculators� Moment of inertia
� Deflection
� 2D FEA
#10 Data Exchange Between CAD Systems
Customer Need Share cross platform data efficiently
between 2D and 3D
AutoCAD® Mechanical Delivers� Document digital prototypes created in
Autodesk® Inventor™
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Autodesk Inventor� Changes to the 3D model automatically
update the 2D drawings
� Native AutoCAD Mechanical DWG files
� Reuse part attributes
� STEP and IGES Translators
IGES
AutoCAD® Mechanical
AutoCAD® Mechanical is part of the
Autodesk ® solution for Digital
Prototyping and can help you:
� Design in a mixed 2D/3D environment
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Design in a mixed 2D/3D environment
� Detail and Document 3D digital prototypes
built using Autodesk® Inventor®
� Take full advantage of the skills and expertise
of the 2D design team
How do I buy AutoCAD® Mechanical?
Autodesk design suites provide:
• The most comprehensive and sophisticated
set of tools to design, visualize, and
simulate their ideas and win more
business.
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• Compelling, cost-effective value by delivering
a compatible set of tools in one economical
and convenient purchase.
• More technology readily accessible to an
individual in an organization, providing the
flexibility to innovate and more easily
respond to changing business
requirements.
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AutoCAD® Mechanical 2012 SoftwareWhat’s New
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What’s New in
AutoCAD® Mechanical offers mechanical engineers a competitive edge by helping save countless hours of effort
AutoCAD® Mechanical 2012 Software
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Other EnhancementsOther EnhancementsOther EnhancementsOther EnhancementsEase of UseEase of UseEase of UseEase of UseProductivityProductivityProductivityProductivity
What’s New in
AutoCAD Mechanical software offers designers immediate productivity gains with specialized tools that help and improve accuracy and speeds design time
AutoCAD® Mechanical 2012 Software
© 2008 Autodesk
Other EnhancementsOther EnhancementsOther EnhancementsOther EnhancementsEase of UseEase of UseEase of UseEase of UseProductivityProductivityProductivityProductivity
Model Documentation Tools Productivity
Save time by automatically generating intelligent documentation for 3D models
What’s New
Intelligent drawing from the following sources:
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Intelligent drawing from the following sources:
• AutoCAD ®
• Autodesk ® Inventor ®
• Fusion
Drawing views, edge display, and location are instantly updated when an engineering change is made.
• CATIA®
• Rhino
• NX®.• Pro/ENGINEER®
• SolidWorks®
Enhanced BOM Migration
AutoCAD® Mechanical’s BOM Migration tool allows DWG ™ data from any source to be imported as a batch, while creating the engineering Bills of Materials and Parts list.
What’s New
Productivity
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�Works with multiple templates
�Automatic mapping of BOM properties
�Automatic creation of migration templates
Performance Improvements
Many common tasks have been tuned for performance
Including:
• Startup time
• Overall responsiveness
Productivity
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• Overall responsiveness
• Ribbon Performance
• User Interface
AutoCAD® Mechanical 2012 SoftwareWhat’s New in
AutoCAD Mechanical makes it easier to get up to speed quickly, intelligently edit models from almost any source, and stay connected to your DWG
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Other EnhancementsOther EnhancementsOther EnhancementsOther EnhancementsEase of UseEase of UseEase of UseEase of UseProductivityProductivityProductivityProductivity
Autodesk Inventor Fusion
Autodesk® Inventor® Fusion sets a new standard for 3D modeling ease of use. It enables you to intelligently edit 3D models from almost any source, helping you experience the benefits of 3D in
the native DWG format.
What’s New
Ease of Use
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What’s New
Inventor Fusion Included as desktop app with AutoCAD Mechanical!
AutoCAD® WS
AutoCAD WS is a new web and mobile application that enables you to stay
connected to your DWG™ files on your desktop, from the web, or from your
iPhone and iPad mobile devices.
What’s New
� AutoCAD WS is an easy-to-use web and
mobile companion application for AutoCAD
Ease of Use
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mobile companion application for AutoCAD
software.
� The AutoCAD WS plug-in allows you to upload
and work with online DWG files directly from
your AutoCAD software.
� View, edit, and share your DWG files
seamlessly on web browsers or mobile devices.
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For more information about AutoCAD WS, visit www.autodesk.com/autocadws
Autodesk Exchange for AutoCAD ® Mechanical
Autodesk Exchange brings the content you need directly to your AutoCAD Mechanical workspace.
What’s New
� First Experience
Ease of Use
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� Getting-Started videos
� Online Help Content
� Community
For more information about Autodesk Exchange, visit
http://exchange.autodesk.com/autocadmechanical
What’s New in
Import and reuse data to jump-start your design process and stay accurate with the latest standards.
AutoCAD® Mechanical 2012 Software
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Other EnhancementsOther EnhancementsOther EnhancementsOther EnhancementsEase of UseEase of UseEase of UseEase of UseProductivityProductivityProductivityProductivity
Autodesk Content Explorer
Instantly find your design content based on file objects or text attributes
What’s New
Creates an index of your data based
on where you instruct it to look
Quickly access:
Other Enhancements
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� Quickly access:
• Files
• Blocks
• Layers
• Linetypes
• Styles
Enabling you to access and insert
data into DWG™ files.
Standards Update
Includes updates for standards derived from the recently updated standard
What’s New
Updates for recently updated ISO standard
• Dimensioning,
Other Enhancements
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• Dimensioning,
• GD&T
• Leaders
• Parts lists (for example, 3040:2009)
Also includes updates for DIN, JIS,
and BSO, as well as other standards.
AutoCAD ® Mechanical 2012 SoftwareWhat’s New in
ProductivityProductivityProductivityProductivity Other EnhancementsOther EnhancementsOther EnhancementsOther EnhancementsEase of useEase of useEase of useEase of use
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•• Performance Performance ImprovementsImprovements
•• Model Documentation Model Documentation ToolsTools
•• Enhanced Enhanced BOM MigrationBOM Migration
•• Performance Performance ImprovementsImprovements
•• Model Documentation Model Documentation ToolsTools
•• Enhanced Enhanced BOM MigrationBOM Migration
•• Autodesk Content ExplorerAutodesk Content Explorer•• Standards UpdateStandards Update•• Autodesk Content ExplorerAutodesk Content Explorer•• Standards UpdateStandards Update
•• AutoCAD AutoCAD WSWS
•• Autodesk Inventor Autodesk Inventor FusionFusion
•• Autodesk Exchange for Autodesk Exchange for
AutoCAD Mechanical AutoCAD Mechanical
•• AutoCAD AutoCAD WSWS
•• Autodesk Inventor Autodesk Inventor FusionFusion
•• Autodesk Exchange for Autodesk Exchange for
AutoCAD Mechanical AutoCAD Mechanical
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