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.
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:
- Create a new drawing from a 2D template.
- Open an existing mechanical 2D drawing that contains mechanical entities.Note: The minimum supported version of AutoCAD® Mechanical drawings is Mechanical 2012, and the maximum is Mechanical 2021. If you try to open an ACM drawing created with an unsupported version, a notification window prompts to choose one option:
- Open in Read Only Mode (allows the user to view and possibly edit the drawing without saving it).
- Close (stops opening of a drawing and returns the user to the previous state/screen).
- Start from a non-mechanical drawing, then add drafting standards using the AMSETUPDWG command.
- 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
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