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Top 10 Reasons to Switch from AutoCAD to AutoCAD Mechanical
1. 700,000 Standard Parts and Features. AutoCAD Mechanical provides a comprehensive set of parts and features that you can select for your designs. When content is inserted, surrounding geometry is intelligently cleaned up so you don’t have to edit it manually.
2. Extended Draw Toolbar for Manufacturing. AutoCAD Mechanical provides additional options for drawing creation, including nearly automatic centerline creation, specialty lines for breakout views & section lines, construction lines for aligning drafting views, and manufacturing-focused hatching patterns & sizes
3. Powerful and Smart Dimensions. Create dimensions using abbreviated dialog boxes that control and expand only the relevant variables for manufacturing. Quickly create groups of ordinate, parallel, or symmetric items that are evenly spaced. Overlapping dimensions automatically space themselves appropriately.
4. Reusable Detailing Tools. Use AutoCAD Mechanical features new tools for creating and modifying chamfers, fillets, detail views, hole charts, title blocks, and revision blocks
5. Support for International Drafting Standards. AutoCAD Mechanical supports ANSI, BSI, CSN, DIN, GB, ISO, and JIS drafting environments. It also includes drafting tools to create standards-based surface texture symbols, geometric dimensioning and tolerances, datum identifiers and targets, notes, taper and slope symbols, and weld symbols.
6. Associative Balloons and Bill of Materials (BOMs). Create automated and associative part lists and BOMs that are specifically developed for manufacturing and automatically update as the design changes. Included is support for multiple parts lists per drawing, collapsible assemblies, automatic recognition of standard parts.
7. Layer Management. The intelligent layer management system in AutoCAD Mechanical automatically places items on the correct layer, color, and linetype as you create your drawing. The software can be also easily customized based on your company requirements.
8. Hidden Lines. Define simple foreground and background selections that automatically redraw geometry to show hidden or dashed lines of parts that are obstructed by other parts in your design. The hidden lines automatically update when changes occur.
9. Machinery Generators and Calculators. AutoCAD Mechanical includes shaft, spring, belt, chain, and cam generators.
10. Data Exchange Between CAD Systems. Use AutoCAD Mechanical to detail and document native Autodesk® Inventor™ models. Incorporate design revisions through the associative link. Exchange data with other CAD systems via industry-standard IGES files.