Tips & Tutorials Blog: AutoCAD Mechanical

Are you currently using AutoCAD? Did you know some of your everyday challenges can be solved with AutoCAD Mechanical? Autodesk conducted a study comparing certain design challenges in AutoCAD and AutoCAD Mechanical which produced the following results: For 2D CAD work, a total time reduction of 65% is possible with AutoCAD Mechanical. The risk of […]

Thinking about upgrading to AutoCAD Mechanical? Have AutoCAD Mechanical and not using all of its features? The tools within AutoCAD Mechanical can help increase your productivity. AutoCAD Mechanical is designed to save hours of rework and automate many common tasks. AutoCAD Mechanical features the following: BOM Enhancements: supporting a reverse workflow of creating the BOM first followed […]

Autodesk® Fabrication CADmep™ 2015 software* supports the detailing, fabrication, and installation workflows of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) contractors by providing tools that extend design-intent to create more accurate, intelligent, constructable models of building services systems. With CADmep you can: Support the extension of design-intent to detailing: Help drive the benefits of Building Information Modeling (BIM) downstream through the use of tools that extend design-intent models from Autodesk®Revit® 2015 software** and Autodesk® Revit® MEP 2015 software into Autodesk Fabrication CADmep 2015 software to create more constructable, real-world models. More […]

Posted July 8, 2013 by Jim Swain, Project Manager, Manufacturing Solutions: Note: AutoCAD Mechanical uses a drawing variable, AMSYMSCALE, to hold the current scale factor for Power Dimensions, symbols and some other objects. This isn’t the same as the AutoCAD Annotative objects and their scales. Annotative objects were introduced in R2008, while Mechanical’s symbol scaling has been around […]