Price: R6 500 Excl VAT
Course Duration: 3 Days
AutoCAD Mechanical Fundamentals
- 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 you assembly designs
- 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 list 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 part or custom parts within your design meet or exceed the requirements of 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 drawing template that includes the configuration settings for layers, object properties, symbols, text, BOMs, parts list, balloons, and other annotation tools.
- A basic understanding of Mechanical drafting of design
- A working knowledge of the AutoCAD Software