Overview of 2D Mechanical Drawings commands

Description

These commands create dimensions or mechanical symbols according to ISO, DIN, JIS, ANSI standards.

These annotations are compatible with the legacy AutoCAD® Mechanical application.

The mechanical entities are added to specific layers, such as AM_5 and AM_12, regardless of what layer is set current.

Note: Mechanical entities created with AutoCAD® Mechanical may be stored in different layers as defined by this application.

BricsCAD 2D Mechanical Drawing Environment

To use Mechanical 2D commands in BricsCAD, you need to set the LOADMECHANICAL2D system variable to 1. This value is maintained after closing the current session. There are three use cases to use the mechanical 2D environment:

  1. Create a new drawing from a 2D template.
  2. Open an existing Mechanical 2D drawing that contains mechanical entities.
    Warning: The minimum supported version of AutoCAD® Mechanical drawings is AutoCAD® Mechanical 2012, and the maximum is AutoCAD® Mechanical 2021. If you try to open an ACM drawing created with an unsupported version, a warning notification message appears: "This file was created in an unsupported Mechanical DWG drawing version. It is recommended to save it first as Mechanical DWG 2021 drawing then open it again in BricsCAD. Do you want to open it as read-only?".

    You can choose from the following options:

    • Yes: Opens the drawing in read-only mode and allows you to view and possibly edit the drawing without saving it.
    • No: Stops opening of a drawing and returns you to the previous state/screen.
  3. Start from a non-mechanical drawing, then add drafting standards using the AMSETUPDWG command.
Note:
  • After opening a drawing that contains mechanical entities, filling other drawings with mechanical-related data will be done on-demand. It will be possible when a user copies the mechanical-related entities to the vanilla drawing. In case of copying entities that are not related to the mechanical data, a vanilla drawing will not be filled with mechanical data.
  • When you open a drawing that contains mechanical entities, but the LOADMECHANICAL2D system variable is OFF, a warning balloon is displayed at the Status Bar that describes the situation and provides a hyperlink to immediately enable and load the mechanical 2D modules.

System variables that controls the BricsCAD Mechanical drawing environment

AMPOWERDIMDISPLAY system variable

AMSYMSCALE system variable

LOADMECHANICAL2D system variable

MECH2DSAVEFORMAT system variable

Commands for setting the BricsCAD Mechanical drawing format

AMSETUPDWG command

Commands for dimensioning

PDIM command

AMPOWERDIM_ALI command

AMPOWERDIM_ANG command

AMPOWERDIM_DIA command

AMPOWERDIM_HOR command

AMPOWERDIM_RAD command

AMPOWERDIM_ROT command

AMPOWERDIM_VER command

Commands for adding Mechanical Symbols

The BricsCAD 2D Mechanical environment contains commands that insert various mechanical symbols into a drawing according to the active drafting standard.

AMBALLOON command

AMBOMSETTINGS command

AMCLEAN command

AMDATUMID command

AMEDGESYM command

AMFCFRAME command

AMNOTE command

AMPARTLIST command

AMPARTREF command

AMPARTREFEDIT command

AMRESCALE command

AMSIMPLEWELD command

AMSURFSYM command

AMTAPERSYM command

AMWELDSYM command

Commands for editing dimensions and Mechanical Symbols

AMPOWEREDIT command

Note: The AMPOWEREDIT command is also launched when you double-click one of the dimension or mechanical symbol entities.

Dialog boxes associated with Mechanical drawings commands

Edit Dimensioning dialog box

Datum Identifier dialog box

Weld Symbol dialog box

Surface Texture dialog box

Part references dialog box

Parts List dialog box

BOM Settings for dialog box