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AutoCAD - AutoCAD Mechanical toolset Command Maps

AutoCAD Mechanical toolset commands are purpose-built for typical mechanical engineering drawings. You can execute typical mechanical drawing tasks much faster if you use AutoCAD Mechanical toolset commands instead of the corresponding AutoCAD commands.

Geometry Creation Commands

AutoCAD Mechanical toolset provides several tools to create mechanical-related geometry including symmetrical lines, section lines (with arrows and labels), various rectangles types, construction lines, centerlines, and automatic hatching. Mechanical lines are automatically created on mechanical layers according to their object type. For example, section lines are automatically created on layer AM_10.

Command Map

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LINE

LINE

PLINE

PLINE

SPLINE

SPLINE

   

AMSYMLINE

Draws symmetrical lines about a centerline

   

AMBROUTLINE

Draws a special spline to show the breakout borders.

   

AMSECTIONLINE

Creates a cutting plane line. Section lines can be created with or without arrows and labels.

   

AMZIGZAGLINE

Draws zigzag lines.

CIRCLE

CIRCLE

ARC

ARC

ELLIPSE

ELLIPSE

POLYGON

POLYGON

REVCLOUD

REVCLOUD

RECTANG

AMRECTANG

Creates a rectangle and includes additional options.

AMRECTBWH

Creates a rectangle; middle base, full base, full height.

AMRECTBWH2

Creates a rectangle; middle base, half base, full height.

AMRECTCW2H

Creates a rectangle; center, half base, half height.

AMRECTCW2H2

Creates a rectangle; full base, full height.

AMRECTCWH

Creates a rectangle; full base, full height.

AMRECTCWH 2

Creates a rectangle; full base, full height.

AMRECTLWH2

Creates a rectangle; center, full base, half height.

AMRECTCY

Creates a rectangle; center, second corner.

AMRECTLWH

Creates a rectangle; middle height, full base, full height.

AMRECTLWH2

Creates a rectangle; middle height, full base, half height.

AMRECTLY

Creates a rectangle; middle height, second corner.

AMRECQBT

Creates a square; middle base, full base.

AMRECTQBY

Creates a rectangle; middle base, half base.

AMRECTQCR

Creates a rectangle; center, half base.

AMRECTQCW

Creates a rectangle; center, full base.

AMRECTQLR

Creates a rectangle; middle height, full base.

AMRECTQLY

Creates a rectangle; middle height, half base.

AMRECTQXY

Creates a rectangle; first corner, full base.

AMRECTXWH

Creates a rectangle; first corner, full base and full height.

Hatching in AutoCAD Mechanical toolset creates an intelligent entity. Hatching automatically finds boundaries based on object type. Only objects on Contour layers (AM_0, AM_1, AM_2 and AM_3) are used as hatching boundaries. Centerlines (AM_7) and thread lines (AM_4) are not found and are therefore ignored as hatch boundaries. When a standard hole feature is placed, the hatching is automatically modified to suit the feature.

Command Map

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HATCH

AMHATCH_45_2

Creates a 45-degree and 2.5 mm/0.1 inch hatch.

AMHATCH_45_5

Creates a 45-degree and 5 mm/0.22 inch hatch.

AMHATCH_45_13

Creates a 45-degree and 13 mm/0.5 inch hatch.

AMHATCH_135_2

Creates a 135-degree and 2.7 mm/0.12 inch hatch.

AMHATCH_135_4

Creates a 135-degree and 4.7 mm/0.19 inch hatch.

AMHATCH_135_11

Creates a 135-degree and 11 mm/0.4 inch hatch.

AMUSERHATCH

Inserts a user-defined hatch.

AMHATCH_DBL

Creates a double hatch of 45- and 135-degree and 2.3 mm/0.09 inch.

Geometry Creation Commands - Standard Features and Parts

The AutoCAD Mechanical toolset content library contains more than 600,000 standard features and parts, which are based on 17 international standards. Standard features include Clearance, Tapped, Counter Sunk, and Counter Bored Holes. Standard parts include Bolts, Screws, Nuts, Washers, Steel Shapes, Bearings, Circlips, Cylindrical and Tapered Pins, Split Pins, Cotter Pins, Drive Studs, Rivets, Clevis Pins, Plugs, Lubricators, Sealing Rings, Drill Bushings, and more.

Command Map

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AMSCREWCON2D

Inserts a screw connection between two plates using standard parts from the content library.

   

AMTHOLE2D

Creates a through hole of a standard size.

   

AMSHAFT2D

Creates rotationally symmetric shaft parts and inner and outer shaft contours, using the Shaft Generator.

   

AMSHAFTEND

Creates a zigzag line, a free-hand line, or a loop to represent a shaft end.

   

AMCOMP2D

Creates compression springs and performs spring calculations.

   

AMSTDPLIB

Inserts a standard part from the content library into the drawing.

Geometry Creation Commands - View Projection and Construction Lines

Construction lines in AutoCAD Mechanical toolset include lines (xline and ray), circles and rectangle objects. They are automatically created on layer AM_CL, which allows for quick placement without having to worry about the current layer. AutoCAD Mechanical toolset recognizes that construction lines are not part of the component you are creating and is able to intelligently exclude them from relevant operations. For example, the hide commands don't consider them valid contour objects and therefore ignores them in hide situations.

Command Map

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AMPOWERVIEW

Creates top, bottom, or side views of standard parts.

XLINE

AMCONSTLINES

Draws construction lines. Displays a dialog box listing all variations.

AMCONSTHOR

Creates a horizontal construction line.

AMCONSTVER

Creates a vertical construction line.

AMCONSTCRS

Creates a construction line cross.

AMCONSTZ

Creates a construction line in the Z direction.

AMCONSTHB

Creates a construction line by defining two points or an angle.

AMCONSTHW

Creates a construction line with a relative angle from a line.

AMCONSTPAR

Creates a parallel construction line with full distance.

AMCONSTPAR2

Creates a parallel construction line with half distance.

AMCONSTLOT2

Creates a construction line perpendicular to two points.

AMCONSTLOT

Creates a construction line perpendicular to a line.

AMCONSTHM

Creates a bisecting construction line of an angle.

AMCONSTTAN

Creates two parallel construction lines tangent to a circle.

AMCONSTTC

Creates a construction line tangent to two circles.

AMCONSTXLINE

Creates construction lines starting from one point in both directions.

RAY

AMCONSTXRAY

Creates construction lines starting from one point.

   

AMCONSTCC

Creates a concentric construction line circle to a circle.

   

AMCONSTCCREA

Creates a circle to the end of a shaft. The circle is drawn on the current layer, but not on the AM_CL layer.

   

AMCONSTC2

Creates a construction line circle tangent to a line.

   

AMCONSTKR

Creates a construction line circle tangent to two lines.

   

AMCONST_CIRCLE

Creates a construction line circle.

   

AMCONSTCIRCLI

Creates a construction line rectangle around a circle.

Geometry Reuse Commands

AutoCAD Mechanical toolset lets you combine lines, arcs and circles to form components (Part and Assemblies) within the mechanical structure environment. Once defined, you can quickly insert these components in a new or existing drawing, and if one instance of a component is modified, all components automatically update.

Command Map

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BLOCK

BLOCK

   

AMSCREATE

Creates new components, component views, folders, and annotation views in drawings in a mechanical structure.

   

AMSNEW

Creates and manages new folders, components, and views in a mechanical structure.

 

WBLOCK

 

WBLOCK

   

AMSEXTERNALIZE

Converts local components/folders to external reference components/folders by moving their definitions to a new drawing file.

INSERT

INSERT

   

AMSINSERT

Insert component views and folders from existing definitions or inserts additional views to an annotation view.

XREF

XREF

   

AMSCATALOG

Displays a catalog of mechanical structure component and folder definitions, and provides the ability to perform a variety of operations, particularly xref related operations.

Hidden Line Creation Commands

The hide related commands in AutoCAD Mechanical toolset create hidden lines by letting you select the objects that must appear in the foreground. Hidden edges are automatically discovered and the appropriate line style set. The commands intelligently ignore inappropriate objects such as Construction Lines from the foreground and background.

Command Map

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AM2DHIDE

Hides invisible edges of objects that are partly or fully hidden behind other objects in an assembly.

   

AM2DHIDEDIT

Edits hidden or invisible edges created by the AM2DHIDE command.

   

AMSHIDE

Hides invisible edges of objects that are partly or fully hidden behind other objects in an assembly, in the mechanical structure environment.

   

AMSHIDEEDIT

Edits hidden or invisible edges created by the AMSHIDE command.

Centerline and Hole Pattern Creation Commands

The commands that create centerlines not only draw centerlines and centerline crosses on the correct layer and extend them to the correct length past holes and other objects, but they let you create complete hole patterns for rectangular and pitch circle diameter patterns.

Command Map

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AMCENTLINE

Draws a centerline on the centerline layer (AM_CL).

   

AMCENCROSS

Draws a centerline cross.

   

AMCENCRHOLE

Draws a centerline cross with a hole.

   

AMCENCRANGLE

Draws a centerline cross with an angle.

   

AMCENCRCORNER

Draws a centerline cross in a corner.

   

AMCENCRFULLCIRCLE

Draws a centerline cross on a full circle.

   

AMCENCRINHOLE

Draws a centerline cross in a hole.

   

AMCENCRPLATE

Draws a centerline cross on a plate.

   

AMCENINBET

Draws a centerline between two lines.

Geometry Modification Commands

The geometry modification power commands recognize related mechanical objects. As a result objects can be modified as a whole (for example, an entire bolted connection can be modified as a whole) and surrounding objects affected by the modification are automatically “healed”.

Command Map

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ERASE

AMPOWERERASE

Deletes selected objects and automatically heals the surrounding mechanical objects.

COPY

AMPOWERCOPY

Copies an object along with its mechanical intelligence to another position in the drawing.

   

AMPOWEREDIT

Starts the command with which the selected object was created, to edit the object.

   

AMPOWERRECALL

Starts the command with which the selected object was created, to create a new object.

MIRROR

MIRROR

OFFSET

AMOFFSET

Creates multiple new objects at specified distances from an existing object.

ARRAY

ARRAY

MOVE

MOVE

ROTATE

ROTATE

SCALE

SCALE

AMSCALEXY

Sets scale of X and Y axes independently of each other.

TRIM

TRIM

EXTEND

EXTEND

BREAK

BREAK

AMBREAKATPT

Break objects on their common intersection point.

JOIN

JOIN

AMJOIN

Joins different entities.

 

DIVIDE

 

DIVIDE

CHAMFER

AMCHAM2D

Connects two nonparallel objects by extending or trimming them to intersect or to join with a beveled line.

FILLET

AMFILLET2D

Creates filleted edges.

Drawing Sheet Creation Commands

AutoCAD Mechanical toolset assists in creating, scaling, and annotating drawing sheets in both model and paper space. Title blocks, drawings borders and revision blocks are intelligent objects automatically extracting part or assembly information for display. In model space, title blocks become scaled areas after recommending a standard scale for the selected objects. In paper space, viewport creation also assists in locating components within model space.

Command Map

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AMTITLE

Inserts a title block and a drawing border.

   

AMREVLINE

Inserts a revision list into a drawing or adds an additional revision line to an existing revision list.

Detail View Creation Commands

Use AutoCAD Mechanical toolset to create detail views in model or paper space using common scaling factors. Detail views are associative and are automatically updated when the model geometry is modified. Detail views placed in model space create scale areas while those placed in paper space create viewports. All AutoCAD Mechanical toolset commands are aware of the scale factor used for detailing and adjust automatically.

Command Maps

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AMDETAIL

Creates a scaled circular, rectangular or free defined detail view of selected geometry.

   

AMSCAREA

Defines a drawing area with a different scale factor.

Annotation Commands - Dimensions

Dimensioning in AutoCAD Mechanical toolset allows fits or fits to be added to those dimensions which are critical to the design. Fits are intelligent, therefore if the nominal size changes, the fit is adjusted accordingly. A Fit List can then be added to the drawing helping to document the design. Automatic dimensioning allows for quick linear, ordinate, shaft, or symmetrical dimensioning in one operation. Numerous dimension editing commands such as arrange and break are available for tiding up placed the dimensions.

Command Map

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Find

DIM

AMPOWERDIM

Creates linear, aligned, angular, radius, diameter, and chamfer dimensions. Allows symbols, fits and tolerances to be added to individual dimensions independent of the dimension style.

DIMLINEAR

AMPOWERDIM

Creates linear, aligned, angular, radius, diameter, and chamfer dimensions. Allows symbols, fits and tolerances to be added to individual dimensions independent of the dimension style.

AMPOWERDIM_HOR

Creates horizontal linear dimensions.

AMPOWERDIM_VER

Creates vertical linear dimensions.

AMPOWERDIM_ROT

Creates rotated linear dimensions.

DIMALIGNED

AMPOWERDIM

Creates linear, aligned, angular, radius, diameter, and chamfer dimensions. Allows symbols, fits and tolerances to be added to individual dimensions independent of the dimension style.

AMPOWERDIM_ALI

Creates aligned linear dimensions.

DIMORDINATE

AMAUTODIM

Creates ordinate, parallel, shaft, and symmetric dimensions and gives the chance to rearrange dimensions into a new style.

DIMARC

AMPOWERDIM

Creates linear, aligned, angular, radius, diameter, and chamfer dimensions. Allows symbols, fits and tolerances to be added to individual dimensions independent of the dimension style.

AMPOWERDIM_ARCLEN

Creates arc length dimensions for arcs and arc segments on a polyline.

DIMRADIUS

AMPOWERDIM

Creates linear, aligned, angular, radius, diameter, and chamfer dimensions. Allows symbols, fits and tolerances to be added to individual dimensions independent of the dimension style.

AMPOWERDIM_RAD

Creates radius dimensions for arcs and circles.

DIMJOGGED

AMPOWERDIM

Creates linear, aligned, angular, radius, diameter, and chamfer dimensions. Allows symbols, fits and tolerances to be added to individual dimensions independent of the dimension style.

AMPOWERDIM_JOG

Create a radius dimension with the origin of the dimension at any location you wish and a jog at a convenient location along the dimension line.

DIMDIAMETER

AMPOWERDIM

Creates linear, aligned, angular, radius, diameter, and chamfer dimensions. Allows symbols, fits and tolerances to be added to individual dimensions independent of the dimension style.

AMPOWERDIM_DIA

Creates diameter dimensions for arcs and circles.

DIMANGULAR

AMPOWERDIM

Creates linear, aligned, angular, radius, diameter, and chamfer dimensions. Allows symbols, fits and tolerances to be added to individual dimensions independent of the dimension style.

AMPOWERDIM_ANG

Creates angular dimensions.

QDIM

AMAUTODIM

Creates ordinate, parallel, shaft, and symmetric dimensions and gives the chance to rearrange dimensions into a new style.

DIMBASELINE

AMAUTODIM

Creates ordinate, parallel, shaft, and symmetric dimensions and gives the chance to rearrange dimensions into a new style.

AMPOWERDIM_BAS

Creates a linear or angular dimension from the first extension line of a selected dimension.

DIMCONTINUE

AMAUTODIM

Creates ordinate, parallel, shaft, and symmetric dimensions and gives the chance to rearrange dimensions into a new style.

AMPOWERDIM_CHAIN

Creates a linear, angular, or arc length dimension from the second extension line of a selected dimension.

   

AMDIMARRANGE

Rearranges selected dimensions, relative to a selected edge.

   

AMDIMSTRETCH

Stretches/Contracts geometry by letting you select an associated dimension (linear or symmetric) and changing the dimension text.

   

AMDIMALIGN

Aligns dimensions to a selected dimension.

   

AMDIMJOIN

Edits linear, aligned, and angular (3-point or 2-line) dimensions by joining similar dimensions into a single dimension.

   

AMDIMBREAK

Creates breaks in an existing dimension while retaining its intelligence.

   

AMFITSLIST

Inserts a fits list from placed dimensions.

   
AMPOWERDIM_CHAM

Creates dimensions for chamfers.

Annotation Commands - Hole Charts

When inserting a hole chart using AutoCAD Mechanical toolset, the origin, hole labels and tables are inserted according to the active standard. When holes are added, removed or moved, the hole chart updates automatically.

Command Map

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TABLE

AMHOLECHART

Creates coordinate dimensions for holes in a work piece and generates hole charts.

MTEXT

Annotation Commands - Mechanical Symbols

Not only does AutoCAD Mechanical toolset contain several commands to directly insert various mechanical symbols to a drawing, the symbols as well as associated text are placed in compliance with the active drafting standard.

Command Map

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QLEADER

AMNOTE

Describes holes and fits, and creates notes to the drawing with a leader.

TOLERANCE

AMFCFRAME

Creates feature control frame symbols.

   

AMDATUMID

Creates datum identifier symbols.

   

AMSURFSYM

Creates surface texture symbols.

   

AMWELDSYM

Creates welding symbols.

   

AMTAPERSYM

Creates taper/slope symbols.

MTEXT

AMTEXT7

Creates mtext with a height of 7mm.

AMTEXT5

Creates mtext with a height of 5mm.

AMTEXT3

Creates mtext with a height of 3.5mm.

Annotation Commands - BOM, Part Lists and Balloons

Built-in BOM (Bill of Material) support eliminates the need to manually track part information, create and maintain parts lists manually. When a part or assembly is added to the design, the parts lists and balloons automatically update. The Parts lists and the balloons adhere to the active drafting standard.

Command Map

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ATTDEF

(Attributes)

ATTDEF

(Attributes)

   

AMPARTREF

Creates hidden part reference attributes.

   

AMBOM

Creates a BOM database containing a list of attributes.

   

AMPARTLIST

Creates and places a parts list in a drawing.

   

AMBALLOON

Creates, places, renumbers, and reorganizes balloons in a drawing.

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