
AutoCAD2011ProductivityStudy
17 ©2010DavidS.Cohn
DrawingTask#8
Intheeighthandfinaldrawingtask,standardAutoCADcommandswereusedtomodeltwovariationsofa
pulleyassembly,includingallofthedimensionsandthecalculatedlengthofeachpulleybelt.First,eachpulley
wheelsizewasmodeledasaseparateblock.Then,theappropriateblockswereinsertedand
positioned.
Finally,thepulleybeltwascreatedandthentextaddedalongwithafieldthatreportedthelengthofthebelt.
Figure9showsthecompletedtask#8drawingwithbothvariationsofthepulleyassembly.
Figure9:Completedtask#8drawing–twovariationsofapulleyassembly.
BecauseofthenewparametricfeaturesinAutoCAD2011,Ianticipatedsignificantproductivityimprovements:
• InAutoCAD2008,thevariouspulleywheelsmustbeinsertedatormovedintotheprecisepositionas
thedrawingiscreated,andthendimensionsadded.Then,tocreatethesecondvariation,thefirst
pulleyarrangement
canbecopied,thenecessaryblocksreplaced,andtheneachofthepulleywheels
movedtoitsnewposition.
• InAutoCAD2011,thevariouspulleywheelscanbeinsertedattheirapproximatepositionsandthen
dimensionalconstraintscreatedbetweeneachwheel.Byspecifyingthecorrectdimensionwhen
theseconstraints
arecreated,thewheelsautomaticallymoveintotheircorrectposition.Bycreating
thesedimensionalconstraintsasannotationalconstraints,thereisnoneedtoadddimensions;the
constraintsserveadualpurpose.Then,tocreatethesecondvariation,thefirstpulleyarrangement
canbecopied,thenecessaryblocksreplaced,andthedimensional
constraintsmodifiedtomovethe
wheelsintotheirnewpositions.
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