Autocad Mechanical Autodesk 2020 is truly genuine product for creating engineering drawing and for making 2d and as well as 3d components with small effort by understanding some basic commands of Autocad Mechanical Autodesk tool.
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I hope you will learn something here and especially gain motivation to start working in AutoCAD mechanical Autodesk as you may noticed, this version is AutoCAD mechanical Autodesk 2013 however, if you have another version this will not be a problem because even different versions can change a bit the layout or the newest ones have more features. All the basic and main things are mostly the same for example if you can work in AutoCAD mechanical Autodesk 2005 it will not be too difficult to get used to AutoCAD mechanical Autodesk 2016 or 17 for example and this is because a special and interesting thing of AutoCAd mechanical Autodesk is that we can start any action by typing the command name with the keyboard for example if I want to draw a line I can type "LINE" command, and this with activate the command if i type "options" command I will open the panel of options so it's very simple if I hold my mouse pointer over any icon it appears there a small box with a briefly explanation of this tool in this case it's the multi line text and this word below is the command name so if i know it I can activate this action by inserting the name with the keyboard so the name of the commands are the same for all versions of course it's possible that exists any exception and also some of them have been experiencing improvements all over the time. This tool is helpful for creating engineering drawings related to mechanical.
OK now I'm going to talk about the workspace and how I can use the mouse and it's buttons it's possible that it seems a bit confusing at the beginning but don't worry because you will get used easily this cross is our mouse indicator and it has exactly this shape when we don't have any command active so the most common way to go to different sections of the drawing is using the mouse wheel if I scroll up, I can zoom in and if I scroll down,I zoom out to move the workspace just click and hold the wheel and slide it if you are familiar with Google Maps this works as the same way so it will be easy for you if you click anywhere with the "right button" this will open this panel here there are several options that you can choose the "left button" is used for selection if I want to select from the left area to the right area the selected area will appear as blue and I have to cover all my line if I just cover a part it will not be selected (as you can see here) but if I open the selection from the right to the left the selection area will be green and if I just touch the line it will be selected for cancel the selection just click on "ESC" now i will start teaching you to draw in AutoCAD mechanical Autodesk i will interact you with the "LINE" command this is the most basic tool and will be probably the one you will use most of time to draw a line I can go to the home panel on the top of screen and click on the icon "LINE" with the left button on screen another option is typing "LINE" with the keyboard and click "ENTER" if you look to the command bar, you can see that. I have the command "LINE" active also the mouse indicator has changed now it doesn't have the square in the middle that appears in this form when i use any drawing tools you can find them in this panel to start drawing I can just click somewhere here to enter the first point at a time and click again in screen where I want the second point for example, here now I can enter a second line but i can type "ESC" to cancel the command OK, so we have drawn a line however it was without any specific dimension and direction and this is not going to be useful for us I want to show you how to insert a horizontal line with dimension 1000 for now the units doesn't matter i will show you how to edit them later if i type "ENTER" now I activate the command "LINE" again this is because it was the last command I have been using and it's very useful for repeatedly actions.
I click to insert the first point and i'm going to drag to the right here appeared this dashed green line and saying here "POLAR" command this means that my line will be horizontal now i will type 1000 and type "ENTER" command this line is completely horizontal and specified as 1000 to be possible to draw completely horizontal or vertical lines we need the "POLAR MODE" command , now i will deactivated it which is here at the bottom, to show you what will happen I will draw another line now and as you see, the dashed line is not there and even if I try to draw it as horizontal as possible it will be for sure a little bit out of the place for this reason, I strongly recommend you to have the "POLAR MODE" on if you need to do lots of horizontal and vertical "LINES" to draw only orthogonal lines I can switch on the "ORTHO MODE" which is this button next to the polar mode drawing a line again So, I click for my first point on screen and the cursor only lets me to draw a vertical or horizontal line so i will type now "100" now "200" and then I continue drawing this will be "100" I will draw another line and now I can draw how many lines as I want when i finish i simply click "ESC" this last one I have to make it "100" to match the line below So, the last thing I will teach you about the "LINE" command is to draw a line with a specified angle and i will draw first an horizontal line on screen and the next one,
For make you understandable more their is example of layout generated in AutoCAD mechanical Autodesk:-
Layout Generated in AutoCad mechanical Autodesk
I want to draw it with the length of "200" now if I type the button "TAB" I can specify the angle which i want and i will put for example 30 degrees and click enter to place it so in this next section i will explain you how to set up and edit units One thing I recommend is drawing with scale 1:1 I mean if you want to draw a line with one meter of length draw it with the real length and not with 1 cm for example that's because it's easier to not get confused and you only need to scale the drawing when you will plot it now if you look to the bottom left corner you can see the coordinates of the mouse pointer and of course, the first one is "X", the second "Y" and the third one is "Z" and this is always zero because we are working in 2d also this point is where my coordinates are all 0 now i am going to set up my units I will type units and press ENTER to open this panel here were says length I can choose the type of that I want in my case I use decimal units but I know in some countries is common to use the architectural or engineering units in the precision, you have all these options to choose and in this side, you can choose the type of angle units of your choice I will choose decimal degrees in the insertion scale and we will choose the units that we want if you use standard units but those are just used for con versioning when we want to insert a block or an external image just for drawing unit, that units don't matter that's because AutoCAD mechanical Autodesk has a dimensionless system of measurement we only need to put the scale when we need to print now I want to show you a common issue especially when we are using millimetres we notice that our workspace is not very wide but this is simple to solve if I draw a very long line like for example 100,000 mm of course it will not fit in the drawing but i'm going to type "Z"for zoom I press "Enter" and now I type "A" for all as you see, my workspace is much bigger and now in this part I will show you a very basic tool that will help us to draw it with precision it's the "object snap" in the screen you can see these lines that you may know how to draw if you have followed these tutorials from the beginning so i'm going to activate the command line and if i drop the pointer through the lines you can see these green symbols appearing there these points are from the object snap and they help me to draw with precision for example the square indicates an endpoint of one of the lines if i click here the start point of the new line will be precisely from the corner I will show you what happens when I have the "object snap" off so i would try to draw a line from this corner and now if i zoom in you can see that there is a gap in it and these things can make your drafting UN precise and for larger projects the objects may not match now i am going to show you how to choose the "object snap" command points we have to type "O SNAP" to open the settings here,
I can activate the modes that I need in this tutorial i will show you how to use some of them i will start with the "ENDPOINT" as I showed you before it appears in the extremities of the lines and arcs the "MIDPOINT" is useful when you want to draw from the middle of an object the "CENTER" only applies for circles and ellipses and to detect these points you have to touch the border of the circle without clicking for the ellipse is the same the "INTERSECTION" is obviously when you want to detect the point of intersection of two lines the "EXTENSION" appears for example when you click on the "ENDPOINT" and you drag the pointer in the same direction of your line now the "PERPENDICULAR" this is a little bit tricky I'm going to draw a line from here and now, I have to touch the line that I want to assume as my reference I drag the mouse to find the perpendicular line so here it is. I can just type the length to draw it now I want to draw a line from the same point, to the perpendicular intersection of this line I highlighted here here when I drag the new line towards the line i highlighted I find this sign that indicates the perpendicular point of my future intersection I click there and i have my new line, orthogonal with this another "PARALLEL" mode If you want to draw a parallel line just click here for example drag the mouse over the line i want to make it parallel to detect it one last thing i want to explain here,is the "object snap tracking" this is really useful if i want to put the first point of a new line at 50 mm to the right from another I will touch the endpoint of my line and drag slowly to the right i will type "50" to insert the first point of the new line so here it is of course, I can do the same to other direction now i will show you to the left side this time i will insert the distance of "100" and now I can draw this line here and one last thing about the "object snap" command I recommend you to only activate the modes you are going to use in the project because if you activate everything in screen ,this can be a bit confusing sometimes with the green signs appearing everywhere and how does the other drawing tools will work if you go to the drawing section on the top of screen you can find there are a lot of commands and there are some more if you click here as this is a tutorial for beginners I will only show you how to use some of them POLY LINES, RECTANGLES, CIRCLES and ARCS I think these are the most used and enough for beginners in AutoCAD I will show you how to use the command "POLY LINE" a poly line is basically a group of lines all connected to each other to draw a poly line we can click in this button or we can also type with the keyboard: "poly line" or simply "pl" and click "enter" as you can see, this is the same process of drawing lines I'm drawing as much lines as i need and when i finish i can click "ESC" or if I want to join with the first point of the "poly line" i can type "cl" that means close so the main characteristic when I draw a poly line is that I select all these lines together because they are considered only one object if I want to draw a rectangle I can still use "poly line" but if i click in the command "rectangle" it is easier that is because, first I click to insert the start point and then, I only need to insert the coordinates of the opposite corner for example if I want a rectangle with dimension 300 per 500 first I will type "300" then, I press "TAB" and finally" 500" so as you see, for rectangles is faster doing this way now, i will show you how to draw a circle you can click on this icon here or you can type "circle" command or "c" and it is very simple in first, I clicked to insert the center for example, here and now I will insert the radius of the circle for example "250" and press enter so it's done now if you go to the drawing panel and click in this arrow you can choose the way how you want to insert the circle for example you can choose first the center and insert the diameter you can draw a circle by inserting two or three points or also by putting tangents so if you want you can you can play around with this because it's easy to learn if i want to draw an arc I can click on the icon above or I can simply type "a" with the keyword I click to insert a first point now I will put a second point and now the third point at the beginning it may be a little bit difficult to draw an arc but with practice you'll get used to it also, like the circle if you click in the arrow you can choose the points that you want to insert for drawing the arc as you see, you have here several options OK, now that you know how to use these commands you can play around with them and also discover the other drawing tools which are helpful for generating engineering's drawing.
