Re: Autodesk Autocad Mechanical 2014 12
Keena Wiegert
I am not sure if this belongs here but I am using plane autocad and I want to upgrade to mechanical because of all the things I use daily like veldings, ballons, partlist and more. But many off the engeneers working with me uses Inventor and I need good argument on way I need AM. I dont know how to use Inventor so the qestion is if I have Inventor alredy do I not neet AM.
The thing is the gays send me 2d of there 3d Inventor model in dwg and I put it on layouts end ad partlist, dimension, veldings and stuff in autocad to print. I know I can do most of this in Inventor and I know we have to upgrade the way we are working and I am looking into the best way to do it.
having some experience of working in Autocad Mech and Inventor i would like to give you my opinion. i have to say that Mech and Inventor are noncomparable software from my point of view, because these systems use absolutely various approaches of a design process. They are not competitors. You can do the same things in both systems very good. It is depend on your company's approach to design. If the issue is only to make drawings of the parts and assemblies using 3d models, and the cost of the software is important (if there is no sense to purchase Invetor only for that) , then the best choice is Autocad Mechanical. The perfomance will increase in comparison with basic autocad because of using specialized features included into autocad mech. But i advice you to look at inventor LT as well. Maybe it will satisfy your requirements.
AutoCAD Mechanical has lots of great tools and standards but it is important for you to recognize it is not just "AutoCAD Plus": it requires you to actually use those tools and standards and not stick to regular AutoCAD methods. As such I'd highly recommend training.
If you can't afford both AM & Inventor, you can't afford Inventor. It's not usable on its own. The "sketch" (2D drawing) environment is primitive and infuriating. You have to draw in Autocad and import to Inventor.
If you are given 2D drawings, and you are adding annotations like Welding Symbols, BOMs Balloons and Parts Lists, AutoCAD Mechanical is the way to go. You get way more stuff than plain Vanilla AutoCAD What's more, compliance to drafting standards is way more current than Inventor. I don't think that the cost difference between AutoCAD and AutoCAD Mechanical is significant.
I mainly use Inventor, but from time to time I use Autocad Mechanical. When zooming in/out with the mouse wheel I find myself always zooming 'in' insteatd of 'out', and 'out' instead of 'in'. This gets very frustrating after a while.
Why does IV and AutoCAD use reverse wheel operations to one another? Is there any way to change autocad settings to be like IV i.e. roll wheel forward to push drawing away from you, roll wheel towards you to bring drawing closer?
Sometimes, I think autodesk goes out of their way to make things difficult. Anyway, just goto file > options and make this screen shot happen. Yes, reverse direction makes the mousewheel zoom in when scrolling forward, kinda dumb.
Been working with acad since version R-10 basically self taught, this tip was a life saver. I am just now trying to advance my skills on into the world of Inventor, and could be classified as an old dog. I was ready to just pass on the whole deal over the reverse zoom issue, i thought i had looked over every option for this switch, but clearly missed it.
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