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- The Autodesk Mechanical Desktop Technical Specifications
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- The Autodesk Mechanical Desktop software brings the power and flexibility of
- advanced solid modeling techniques to the mechanical designers desktop. It is
- ideal for the design and documentation of machines, electro-mechanical
- assemblies and common molded parts.
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- The Autodesk Mechanical Desktop is deeply integrated in the latest version of
- AutoCAD Release 13 software offering new levels of performance and
- reliability.
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- The Autodesk Mechanical Desktop enables every mechanical designer, drafter,
- and engineer working on a Windows or DOS PC to harness the productivity
- power of next-generation solid and surface modeling.
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- Parametric, Feature-Based Solid Modeling
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- Full Set of Design Features:
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- * Sketched Features: Extrude, Revolve, Sweeps, Cuts, Draft.
- * Formed Features: Fillets, Chamfers, Holes (countersunk, counterbore).
- * Advanced blended NURBS surface features.
- * Feature Arrays: Fully parametric feature array patterns.
- * Work Features: Work planes, Work Axes, Work Points, Construction lines.
- * Edit Sketch: Re-define the constraint and dimensioning scheme of sketches.
- * Undo command.
- * Non-parametric Boolean operations.
- * Supports non-constrained and underconstrained design.
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- Automatically Generate Detailed Drawings:
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- * Provides complete, bi-directional model to drawing associativity.
- * Leverages powerful R13 drafting environment.
- * Removes dashed or blanked hidden lines automatically and precisely.
- * Provides built-in drafting standard support for ANSI, ISO, DIN and JIS.
- * Parametric annotations, including hole notes and callouts.
- * Create a complete set of drawing views from your model, orthographic,
- isometric, auxiliary, section, partial section, offset section,
- iso-section detail and user-defined.
- * Dimensions and other annotation automatically appear in drawing views.
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- Check That Mass Property Information is Within Your Design Limits:
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- * Calculate surface area, mass and volume, for both parts and assemblies.
- * Measure mass properties for the entire assembly or any part of the
- assembly.
- * Calculate moments of inertia in any AutoCAD User Coordinate System.
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- Sketching:
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- * Complete sketching tools including rectangles, arc, circles and polylines.
- * Copy existing Sketches to other faces or parts.
- * Extensive sketch editing tools, including snaps, offsets, mirror, trim,
- extend, scale, and stretch.
- * Sketch right on the part in any view orientation, such as isometric.
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- Constraint Technology:
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- * Supports non-constrained and underconstrained sketches.
- * Constraint editing: Add, Delete, Undo.
- * Visual constraint symbols provide feedback on current constraint scheme.
- * Constraints supported: horizontal, vertical, parallel, perpendicular,
- collinear, concentric, project, join, radius, tangent, x-value, y-value.
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- Assembly Modeling:
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- * Manipulate assembly organization graphically or logically.
- * Assemblies can be created bottom-up or in-place.
- * Create component parts and subassemblies once and place into multiple
- assembly and subassembly designs.
- * Advanced assembly constraints support underconstrained, coordinate-free
- design.
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- Assembly Constraints:
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- * Position components to one another associatively using constraints.
- * Position parts with respect to each other using edges, axes or faces.
- * Assemblies remain associative across Designer part editing operations.
- * Underconstrained component positioning is supported with easy to
- understand degree of freedom feedback graphics.
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- Assembly Hierarchy Management:
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- * Navigate and edit and assembly hierarchy easily using the Assembly Browser.
- * Reorder assembly components at the click of a button.
- * Rename a single component or all component instances.
- * Set component visibility.
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- Assembly Component Management:
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- * Design in place or load Designer parts as External Reference files.
- * Rename or delete the catalog definition of the component.
- * Externalize a locally defined part at a click of a button.
- * Localize an externally defined component.
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- Document Your Assemblies Easily:
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- * Explode a constrained assembly and adjust components, associatively, for
- documentation as desired.
- * Alter assembly content and update assembly documentation automatically.
- * Create multiple assembly views.
- * Include Designer parts or AutoSurf surfaces or R13 solids in assembly
- views transparently.
- * Generate an associative bill of materials.
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- Perform Interference Analysis:
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- * Analyze parts, subassemblies or the entire the assembly.
- * Create a volume of interference for rendering.
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- Comprehensive, 3D NURBS Surface-Based Modeling
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- Create a Wide Variety of Surfaces:
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- * Primitives/Quadrics--sphere, cylinder, cone, and torus.
- * Basic surfaces--planar, extruded, revolved, and ruled.
- * Advanced (or free-form) surfaces.
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- Derive Surfaces From Existing surfaces:
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- * Constant and variable-radius fillet surfaces with automatic trimming.
- * Blends across two, three, or four existing surfaces with user-specified
- weighting.
- * Corner fillets and rolling ball fillets.
- * Offsets from existing surfaces by a user-specified distance.
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- Edit Surfaces:
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- * Move or "pull" native AutoCAD grip points.
- * Break or extend a surface.
- * Join multiple surfaces into a single surface.
- * Lengthen one or multiple edges of a surface.
- * Trim surfaces automatically with operations such as Fillet, Intersect,
- and Project.
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- Generate Surface Output:
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- * Geometry from one or more existing surfaces.
- * Contour flow lines to enhance visualization.
- * Sections produced by cutting surfaces with one or more planes.
- * Intersection of two surfaces.
- * View-dependent parting lines from existing surfaces.
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- Profile views with hidden lines for creating 2D drawings:
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- * Surfaces Analysis and Query Information.
- * Measure the minimum distance between entities.
- * Get information on splines, augmented lines, and surfaces.
- * Compute surface area and volume (container shell and container).
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- Wireframe Creation and Editing:
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- * Define parameters such as order and fitting tolerances.
- * Fit splines through existing AutoCAD polylines or user-specified points.
- * Augmented lines for blending and visual-surface analysis.
- * Project wireframe entities onto a plane or surface.
- * Automatic surface trimming and a user-defined draft angle for planar
- projections.
- * Break, Extend or Trim an entity at a user defined distance.
- * Edit and output augmented lines for use in applications such as CMM and NC.
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- Common Functionality
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- * Standard Import/Export interfaces:
- * IGES (version 5.2)
- * STL (Stereolithography)
- * DWG
- * DXF
- * SAT (ACIS) version 1.6
- * 3DS animation software such as 3D Studio
- * WMF (Windows Metafile)
- * EPS (Encapsulated Postscript)
- * BMP
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- An AutoCAD R13 utility converts most AME (Advanced Modeling Extension)
- models into nonparametric AutoCAD Designer models.
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- Customization:
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- * AutoLISP programming language support.
- * New Mechanical API provides C language programmatic access to Designer
- features, functions and attributes.
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- Documentation and Training Materials:
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- * Tutorial lessons focus on helping users solve typical design problems.
- * Tech Tips: helpful, brief procedures that appear throughout the tutorials.
- * On-line Tour: interactive, automated learning tool.
- * Windows Help: All commands and functions are covered on-line.
- * Windows Cue Cards: Covers 26 common procedures on-line.
- * Troubleshooting guide for parametric, solid-modeling technical issues.
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- Interoperable Products:
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- Autodesk's family of interoperable mechanical products gives you the power
- to model, design, visualize, and document mechanical parts, assemblies,
- and sculpted shapes.
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- * AutoVision Release 2 software, for advanced visualization and rendering.
- * Autodesk WorkCenter for technical document management and workflow
- automation.
- * 3D Studio Release 4 for mechanical fly-by's and kinematic
- analysis (optional).
- * MaterialSpec.
- * PartSpec (2D only).
- * AutoCAD LT (Viewing and Markup).
- * Autodesk Device Interface (ADI) drivers.
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- System Requirements:
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- * IBM or 100 percent compatible PC. See your Dealer for configuration details
- on specific platforms.
- * MS-DOS 5.0 or higher.
- * Windows 3.1 (enhanced mode) for Windows version.
- * Minimum 62 MB of disk space.
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- System Recommendations:
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- Training
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- Minimum Processor: 486/66
- RAM : 16MB
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- Piece Parts, Small Assemblies
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- Minimum Processor: Pentium 60
- RAM : 32MB
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- Product Assemblies
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- Minimum Processor: Pentium 60
- RAM : 64MB
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- Desktop Mechanical CAD Was Never Like This...
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- Autodesk's family of interoperable mechanical products gives you the power to
- parametrically design, model, visualize, and document mechanical parts,
- assemblies, and sculpted shapes -- simply and affordably.
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- The family includes:
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- * AutoCAD Release 13 with AutoSurf Release 3 software.
- * AutoCAD Designer 2 software, providing parametric, feature-based part and
- assembly design coupled with automated drafting.
- * AutoVision Release 2 software, for advanced visualization and rendering.
- * Autodesk WorkCenter, a document- and workflow-management tool with a
- mechanical "personality".
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- Our core mechanical products -- AutoSurf, AutoCAD Release 13, and
- AutoCAD Designer -- plus AIT Release 13 are available as a specially priced,
- well-integrated, product suite: the Autodesk(R) Mechanical Desktop.
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- Questions?
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- AutoSurf Release 3 and AutoCAD Release 13 software -- available individually
- and as part of the Autodesk Mechanical Desktop -- plus a host of other
- Autodesk and add-on mechanical products are sold through a worldwide network
- of Authorized Autodesk Dealers. A select subset of Dealers, called Autodesk
- System Centers, have been certified by Autodesk to provide specialized MCAD
- support and training.
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- To locate the Dealer nearest you or for more information, call us at
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- 800-964-6432
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- Outside the United States and Canada, fax your request to
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- 415-491-8303 (Latin America)
- 415-491-8398 (Asia/Pacific)
- +41-22-788-21-44 (Europe)
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- Autodesk, Inc.
- 111 McInnis Parkway
- San Rafael, CA 94903
- USA
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- Autodesk, the Autodesk logo, AutoCAD, AutoSurf, AutoCAD Designer, ADI,
- and 3D Studio are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. Autodesk Device
- Interface and AutoVision are trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. Windows is a
- registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other brand names,
- product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.
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- Copyright 1995 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved.
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