DraftSight Mechanical

DraftSight Mechanical is a DWG-based 2D and 3D design solution. It includes DraftSight Premium and the capabilities to serve comprehensive mechanical design needs.

With DraftSight Mechanical, you can:

• Choose a default standard from a collection of data tables that define industrial and national standards, or create a custom standard based on one of the standards provided.
• Insert standard hardware into your drawing in a number of 2D views by choosing from a collection of bolts and screws, nuts, pins, and washers.
• Add predefined holes to a drawing by choosing from counterbored or countersunk holes with blind or through clearances.

  You can also specify geometric or textual hole dimensions and create associative charts of hole locations, which you can then add as annotations to drawings.

• Detail drawings by creating, previewing, and adding surface finishes and welding symbols.
• Design and add balloons to drawing entities.
• Use the item data associated with balloons to add bill of materials tables to your drawings.

  You can export the contents of the tables as comma- or space-separated text files.

• Track changes in drawings by creating revision tables with links to revision symbols.

Contents

• Managing Mechanical Toolbox Standards

  Mechanical Toolbox includes a collection of data tables that represent existing industrial and national standards. It is highly recommended that you create your own standard from one of the standards provided.

• Selecting Mechanical Toolbox Settings

  The Toolbox - Settings dialog box lets you specify basic settings for Mechanical Toolbox features.

• Managing Mechanical Layers and Layergroups

  Using the Toolbox - Settings dialog box, you can specify layers, colors, linestyles, and lineweights you want Mechanical Toolbox to add to the active document. You can then assign these properties to entity categories that are used for hardware, holes, and symbols.

• Mechanical Toolbox Hardware Options

  Toolbox includes standards-based hardware components that you can insert into drawings.

• Mechanical Toolbox Screw Connections

  The Toolbox- Screw Connections dialog box helps you combine bolts and screws with nuts and washers using a single dialog box.

• Mechanical Toolbox Hole Options

  With Mechanical Toolbox, you can add 2D representations of holes to drawings based on national standards or your custom standards.

• Mechanical Toolbox Favorites

  When you use specific hardware components or hole configurations frequently, you can store their settings as favorites in your Mechanical Toolbox profile and access them from the Toolbox - Hardware or Toolbox - Holes dialog boxes.

• Editing Hardware and Hole Definitions

  You can modify the definitions of Mechanical Toolbox hardware and holes that you have added to a drawing.

• Working with Detail Views

  A detail view shows a specified area from the drawing at an enlarged scale.

• Adding Surface Finish Symbols

  Add Mechanical Toolbox surface finish symbols to specify the surface texture for manufacturing.

• Adding Welding Symbols

  When your drawing is for a project that requires welds, you can add Mechanical Toolbox welding symbols to describe the type of welds, their sizes, and other processing and finishing information.

• Adding Feature Control Frame

  A feature control frame is a rectangular symbol used for displaying the conditions and tolerances of a geometric control on a part’s feature.

• Mechanical Revision Tables

  Use a Mechanical Toolbox revision table to track revisions in a drawing.