The AllyCAD Toolkits

THE MECHANICAL TOOLKIT FEATURES

The Mechanical Toolkit speeds up the drawing of common mechanical components (such as bolts, nuts and screws), and provides functions for annotating welds, tolerances and surface finishes. It also provides functions for generating tables of coordinate, part, and general information.

SETUP

The Mechanical Toolkit Setup dialogs are used to modify the Mechanical Toolkit's default settings, and customise it to your preferences. Here you can further specify line type and pen colour that will be used by the mechanical toolkit to draw Solid, Hidden and Centre lines.

FASTENERS

• Automatic linear or polar repeat function
• Hexagon bolts
• Hexagon nuts with or without washers
• Slotted hexagon nuts
• Screws with various slots and head shapes including:
• Cap screws
• Plain
• Low Head
• Shoulder
• Flat Head
• Rivets with various head shapes

GENERAL

• Multiple libraries containing mechanical elements can be created and used
• User friendly and graphical setup dialogs
• Specify pens and line types to be used for solid, hidden and centre lines
• Elements can be drawn in hidden or solid lines
• To draw an element, simply select and indicate its position
• Each drawn element will be grouped individually
• Draw multiple circles with centre lines
• Through or blind drill holes in plan, elevation or section
• Through or blind tap holes in plan, elevation or section

ANNOTATION

• Weld annotation - can save weld annotation definitions for laterre-use which saves time and helps with standardising work.
• Tolerance annotation - used to draw geometric tolerance "feature control" annotations.
• Surface Finish annotation - can save surface finish definitions for later re-use.

DRAW COMPONENTS

• Shafts with multiple sections and filleted or chamfered trim
• Links with user defined hole diameters, link radii, fillet radii and taper
• Flanges with a defined pitch circle diameter and 2 different hole diameters
• Spur Gears with a defined pressure angle, number of teeth and pitch circle diameter

DUCTING
This tool allows you to draw top, side, front and development views of a rectangular to round duct section.

• Draw rectangle to round duct views:
• Front view
• Plan view
• End view
• Development

DRAW TABLES
This function allows you generate and draw a general-purpose table of data. Data may be imported and exported as a CSV (text) files.

• Can create a Coordinate table, a Parts List table, or a "User" (general-purpose) table.
• The data in all tables can be exported to Excel (.CSV file).
• User table can import .CSV data. Data can also be cut and pasted from Excel spreadsheet into the User table.

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