Increase productivity, streamline processes with AutoCAD Mechanical 2007

Autodesk’s just-released AutoCAD® Mechanical 2007 includes several new tools specifically designed to increase productivity for mechanical designers.  These new tools automate many of the common tasks needed to create, revise and reuse existing designs. 

New and enhanced features also simplify the ability to produce associative drawings of of Autodesk Inventor® parts and assemblies.You can now override visibility settings normally controlled by the design view in Inventor.  This will give you the control needed to document subassemblies and parts to create a group of drawings for manufacturing.

Note that with Mechanical you can create designs in Inventor and produce your 2D drawings in Mechanical as DWG’s associative to any design change done in Inventor.  Also, Inventor does not need to be located on the same computer as Mechanical.

Also included in Mechanical 2007 is a full suite of API with new developer guides, samples, tutorials and quick start materials.  This will allow those with programming experience to build more custom solutions to automate your processes.

There is also a new Configuration and Setup Guide that contains information and basic workflows and a detailed AutoCAD® to AutoCAD Mechanical feature and scenario comparison chart to help users quickly and easily transition to AutoCAD Mechanical.

Hole charts have been enhanced and new functionality has been added that will allow you to create multiple, but related, hole charts in the same drawing.  In addition there are several sorting and filtering options added allowing you to easily identify and split groups of holes for manufacturing.

The length and jogged radii dimensions types have been integrated with the Mechanical 2007 Power Dimension types.

Dimension Driven Design turns your dimensions into design tools where changing the dimension updates the geometry.  Users have the opportunity to control what geometry will be updated with what dimensions.  This is a huge enhancement that brings AutoCAD Mechanical into a somewhat parametric world.

These are just a few of the new enhancements to AutoCAD Mechanical 2007. For an up close and personal look at the tool your 2D mechanical engineers should be using please contact your local Hagerman sales representative.