AutoCAD Mechanical design software offers many drawing enhancements beyond traditional AutoCAD® software. Many of these productivity tools offer immediate benefits to manufacturing designers currently using AutoCAD. From standards management to documenting Inventor® 3D CAD software models, this class promotes 10 of the best productivity tools available in AutoCAD Mechanical.

Are you working with AutoCAD software but wish you had more tools designed specifically for manufacturing? Are you using the Autodesk® Product Design Suite but wonder what this included thing called AutoCAD® Mechanical is for? Ever wished you could take experienced AutoCAD users and use their skills to detail your Inventor® software 3D models? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is the class for you. In this fast-paced, rapid-fire class, we look at the things that make AutoCAD Mechanical software special. We explore why you should be using it for your mechanical and manufacturing design and detailing, including examining the built-in calculators, component library, detailing and annotation tools, defining structure, and the other nuts and bolts contained within.

Save time. Increase efficiency. Save money. Although AutoCAD software, especially AutoCAD Mechanical software, ships with over half a million standard parts and features, a specific item you require may not exist. For example, GOST steel shapes and piping parts. There are other cases where you need a variation of an existing standard part. For example, a steel shape with a hole in a specific place. In all such scenarios, AutoCAD Mechanical software provides the ability to build your own content and store it in custom content libraries, which you can share across different teams and co-workers. The class aims to show you how to use the Content Manager in AutoCAD Mechanical software to build custom content.

In today's rapidly evolving design landscape, efficiency and customization are key factors in staying ahead of the curve. With the abundance of existing standard content in AutoCAD Mechanical software, you can now harness the power of these resources to craft your own bespoke mechanical components. Users can pick from more than half a million standard predesigned parts, ranging from nuts and bolts across 18 different standards. By using these standard parts as building blocks, you can significantly expedite your design process and ensure the building of custom content with industry standards. Once you've selected the foundational components, the real magic begins: customization. Whether it's adjusting dimensions, altering materials, or adding intricate details, the ability to tailor each component ensures that the final design aligns perfectly with your vision. By building a library of custom content, you can streamline the design work, reduce redundancy, and maintain consistency in your projects.

More connection speed, more reaction time—interoperability plays a vital role in our daily design collaborations that help with flexible production lines and reduced integration costs. Many industrial machinery and manufacturing industries have realized the benefits of using both 2D and 3D CAD software together—and the list of reasons is long, including better collaboration and increased efficiency, to name a few. In those cases, it’s important that your data remains fully associative. In all such scenarios, AutoCAD Mechanical software provides a feature called Inventor Link that enables you to link Inventor assembly (.iam) and part (.ipt) documents to a drawing file and display the 3D model in model space. Then, you can generate 2D drawings of the 3D model in paper space and annotate them. This class aims to show how you can use Inventor Link in AutoCAD Mechanical for increased efficiency, reduced time, and better collaboration.

We've been dimensioning in AutoCAD software for what seems like a century. You will learn how the multipurpose AMPOWERDIM command automatically recognizes objects and defaults to the appropriate dimension type. Discover how to create multiple dimensions with minimal input, resulting in instant groups of appropriately spaced ordinate, parallel, or symmetrical dimensions. You will also learn how to automatically force overlapping dimensions to automatically space themselves appropriately. You can use the same command to place linear, angular, radial, diameter, baseline, and chain dimensions. Learn how to integrate tolerance and fit list information into the drawing. In a layout or scale area, power dimensions automatically adjust their linear scale based on the points or geometry selected.

Are you working with AutoCAD software but wish you had more tools designed specifically for manufacturing? Are you using one of the suites or collections but wondering what this included thing called AutoCAD Mechanical software is for? In this fast-paced, rapid-fire class, we will look at the things that make AutoCAD Mechanical software special. We will explore why you should be using it for your mechanical and manufacturing design and detailing, including examining the built-in calculators, component library, detailing and annotation tools, defining structure—everything, and the nuts and bolts of it!

If you are working with AutoCAD Mechanical software and want to know the precision tools for increasing efficiency and productivity through custom bill of materials and parts lists, then you will benefit from this class. In this interactive session, we will look at the things that make you think smartly with AutoCAD Mechanical software’s Bill of Materials. Avoid any challenges to procure and manage your lead time. Join us to see the intuitive tool that can help to build an effective CAD environment. This session features AutoCAD Mechanical and AutoCAD.

If you want to produce mechanical drawings that are intelligent and easy to manage, this class is for you. You'll learn how to reuse intelligent mechanical objects across multiple drawings, and how to build and export a component database that integrates with your ERP system. Insert an automatic parts list with an exact count, and watch as the Bill of Materials (BOM) updates itself intelligently with new or modified mechanical components. In addition, you'll discover how to annotate more-accurate and consistent designs by accessing standardized symbols that automatically update when design changes are made. Want to insert standard-based title blocks with different scale factors? No problem. You'll also learn how to create and update designs by defining foreground and background objects, as well as how to automatically generate hidden lines with specific layer management. You'll acquire valuable skills to create mechanical designs with ease and efficiency, saving you countless hours.

This class will show users of AutoCAD software, AutoCAD Mechanical software, and AutoCAD Electrical software the many ways that Vault software greatly improves current design, engineering, and manufacturing workflows. Vault software supports and improves existing AutoCAD software, AutoCAD Mechanical software, and AutoCAD Electrical software design and drafting environments by effectively managing digital design files and workflows, giving you and your design team a comprehensive method of finding, managing, protecting, and distributing your most valuable assets. Data management software from Autodesk, Inc., is tightly integrated with AutoCAD Electrical software and AutoCAD Mechanical software design applications. Deep integration makes it easy to manage data associated with your digital prototype from engineering through manufacturing, saving time and better ensuring data accuracy.

In this session, we’ll learn how to make the most of Inventor software and toolsets like AutoCAD Electrical, AutoCAD Mechanical, and AutoCAD Plant 3D software by seamlessly connecting them. We’ll also learn about using tools like Electromechanical Link and Inventor Link to keep 2D and 3D models in sync, ensuring your designs stay updated across all platforms. And we’ll learn how Navisworks software can bring together AutoCAD Plant 3D and Inventor for smoother coordination and collaboration. Whether you’re working on electrical systems, piping layouts, or mechanical components, this session will provide you with practical tips and tricks to keep everything in sync and running smoothly across the team. Additionally, we'll learn how to generate 3D representations of 2D factory layouts using Factory Design Utilities software.

Wait, what? You can create a bill of materials (BOM) in AutoCAD software? In this class, we’ll explore the options for creating a BOM in AutoCAD and the embedded tools within AutoCAD Mechanical software. We'll export the BOM both manually and automatically. We'll check in the drawing to Vault Professional software, and use Vault software's tools to manage and manipulate the BOM. Then we'll explore our options for sharing the BOM with ERP (enterprise resource planning), Autodesk PLM 360 software, Microsoft SharePoint, and other systems.

In this class, we will walk you through the procedures using specialized toolsets to design from start to finish. We will learn how to use standard content in AutoCAD Architecture software and AutoCAD MEP software. Then we’ll learn how to use Bill of Materials from AutoCAD Mechanical software, along with wiring diagrams and reporting from AutoCAD Electrical software, to simplify and accelerate your design process. We will show you how to transition between different toolsets to achieve optimal design.

This class covers the challenges and victories of a 100-year-old company that has transitioned from drawing on a drafting board to AutoCAD® software for 2D and 3D CAD, then to AutoCAD® Mechanical design software, and finally to Inventor® 3D CAD software. We describe how the company has adapted its own standards over the years to expedite the release of drawings to manufacturing in a very time-critical environment. Finally, we discuss how the company has decided to take technology by the horns with both 3D prototype/model design and a business enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

Do you maintain AutoCAD platform tools for a bunch of users? Do you have to support branch offices? If so, this class will help you get your AutoCAD environment under optimal control via AutoLISP® customization, CUI customization, and a unique way of synchronizing networked content with the user's machine to achieve maximum speed. We will cover centrally located standards content such as palettes, CUIs, plotting files, databases, blocks, and other content using a combination of profiles, project folders, registry access, and AutoLISP to control it all. Particular attention will be paid to achieving maximum speed for the user. All concepts will be presented using a sample environment that you can alter to fit your company immediately after class. Whether you use plain AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D®, AutoCAD Architectural, or AutoCAD Mechanical, this class will give you the knowledge you need to finally get all your AutoCAD tools under centralized control with maximum speed.

Vault Data Standard is a free Autodesk add-on for Vault software, Inventor software, and AutoCAD Mechanical software. This class will show what it is, what it can do, what it’s good for, and how to install it, along with first insights into customization. Vault Data Standard comes with cool features out of the box, and can really improve your Vault experience. Join this class to see the latest version of Vault Data Standard and learn how to improve your workflows.

As our world becomes increasingly digital, interoperability is becoming more and more important. In many industries, including health care, manufacturing, and construction, interoperability is seen as a key factor in improving efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing innovation. It is also important for the development of new technologies and innovations and for enabling different systems to work together. Interoperability can help foster collaboration and accelerate the pace of technological progress. That said, two powerful products—AutoCAD toolsets and Inventor software—make one powerful pair that will maximize the capabilities of your CAD software with 2D and 3D workflows that work together. This class will show you how to use AutoCAD toolsets with Inventor to design faster, get more from your models, and save time on manual tasks that enable us to work together seamlessly.

Enterprise, medium-size, and small companies all have the same challenges: How to manage CAD data and how to collaborate on designs across multiple teams in an efficient way. This class will focus on an audience that’s using Autodesk's design and manufacturing products like AutoCAD software, AutoCAD Mechanical software, Inventor software, and more. In the first part, we’ll clearly explain how Vault software can help you to manage 2D and 3D CAD data and collaborate with others. Further, we'll smoothly integrate Vault software’s Project Sync in our workflow as a facilitation to collaborate with externals. Once, we've passed our first connection to the cloud, we’re going to demonstrate additional cloud-product use cases you can integrate to be more productive.

In this class, we’ll introduce you to simple and powerful features in mechanical toolsets that help you transform your AutoCAD drawing into smart-drawing entities that can help increase productivity and efficiency. We’ll do a simple walk-through of converting your AutoCAD tables to a smart BOM database. You’ll learn an automatic dimensioning feature under power tools to make your drawing annotation simpler and faster. Later, we’ll add intelligent balloons to the drawing views that you’ve created in AutoCAD using model documentation. Finally, we’ll utilize the drawing design standards in AutoCAD Mechanical software to make your drawing views and annotations adhere to your company standards and create effectiveness to save costs and time with your drawing maintenance.

This intermediate-to-advanced hands-on lab offers AutoCAD 3D software veterans a chance to explore the 2D model documentation of 3D models from AutoCAD 2017 software. After creating base views and projected views from 3D solid or surface models, we’ll explore sectional views. Using 3D models, we will create full, half, offset, and aligned sectional drawing views. We will create circular and rectangular detail views. We will explore editing techniques of the 3D models and update the derived drawing views. We will also explore undocumented Auxiliary View features. If you used AutoCAD 3D software in the past to create 2D multiview drawings from 3D models, attend this class and get ready to be surprised. This session features AutoCAD, AutoCAD 360, and AutoCAD Mechanical.