Total Number of Pages: 858
Total Hours: 32
AutoCAD® Mechanical 2025: Essentials (Part 1 and Part 2) introduces you to the core topics required for effectively using the AutoCAD® Mechanical software. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum, you will acquire the knowledge required to streamline the mechanical design process. The software provides specialized tools for creating and manipulating geometry, automatically acquiring bills of materials, generating mechanical components, and performing design calculations. The course is designed to maximize the capabilities of AutoCAD Mechanical to boost productivity.
Topics Covered in Chapters 1 to 6 (Part 1)
• 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.
Topics Covered in Chapters 7 to 12 (Part 2)
• 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
• Access to the 2025.0 version of the software, to ensure compatibility with this guide. Future software updates that are released by Autodesk may include changes that are not reflected in this guide. The practices and files included with this guide are not compatible with prior versions (e.g., 2024).
• A basic understanding of mechanical drafting or design.
• A working knowledge of the AutoCAD software.
• A working knowledge of the Microsoft® Windows® operating system.
Total Hours: 32
AutoCAD® Mechanical 2025: Essentials (Part 1 and Part 2) introduces you to the core topics required for effectively using the AutoCAD® Mechanical software. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum, you will acquire the knowledge required to streamline the mechanical design process. The software provides specialized tools for creating and manipulating geometry, automatically acquiring bills of materials, generating mechanical components, and performing design calculations. The course is designed to maximize the capabilities of AutoCAD Mechanical to boost productivity.
Topics Covered in Chapters 1 to 6 (Part 1)
• 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.
Topics Covered in Chapters 7 to 12 (Part 2)
• 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
• Access to the 2025.0 version of the software, to ensure compatibility with this guide. Future software updates that are released by Autodesk may include changes that are not reflected in this guide. The practices and files included with this guide are not compatible with prior versions (e.g., 2024).
• A basic understanding of mechanical drafting or design.
• A working knowledge of the AutoCAD software.
• A working knowledge of the Microsoft® Windows® operating system.
Course material includes access to practice files. Printed guides are coil bound and printed in black and white with images in grayscale.
