GeniusMechaniCS 2007 What's New

New release of the advanced mechanical engineering application works in the environment of AutoCAD® 2007, AutoCAD® LT 2007 and Autodesk Inventor 11. It supports also previous releases of all three platforms and brings many extensions to highly acclaimed functionality of GeniusMechaniCS 2006 , following the wishes and suggestions of customers.

Following the unified fundamental architecture of whole family the functionality extensions in GeniusMechaniCS 2007 for AutoCAD include:

• Extended "Power array" set of commands, which makes possible to fill selected space with array of holes or other shapes according to given rules and generation of arrays along contours;
• Rivets wizard, generating riveted fastening assemblies;
• Pipeline generation with extended set of standard fittings;
• Extended customisation possibilities of intelligent objects through adding individual "fields" to any object property, allowing object referencing in all functions;
• Universal, programmable markers for inserting of any tags or comments in the drawing space with comfortable user interface;
• Customisation wizard for procedures of standard parts insertions.

GeniusMechaniCS 2007 for all three Autodesk platforms uses the same, unified data base of standard parts and assemblies. In this release new engine is implemented:

• Data base platform: MSDE MS SQL Server
• Individual user access rights settings, allowing to control rights to change/edit data base content
• Flexible filtering, allowing for precise search
• Filter profiles (Named, Preferred, Favourites etc.).)

GeniusMechaniCS 2007 contains opened API , allowing among others to:

• integrate GMCS with modern data, document or lifecycle management systems
• include user defined engineering calculation
• generate custom assemblies and parts from third party applications
• create parametric parts and assemblies

GMCS object enabler for AutoCAD 2004-2007, facilitating cooperation and workflow in design teams, now completes the product family. It allows to open drawings created in GeniusMechaniCS 2006-2007, their viewing and printing, as well as removing and exploding of specific GMCS objects in the standard AutoCAD, without having GMCS installed.

GeniusMechaniCS 2007 is a unique solution for users of MCAD software solutions from Autodesk.

This is the first time AutoCAD-based mechanical engineers and designers have been granted powerful integrated software provided with a common database and united technology.

Such approach dramatically reduces time needed to finalize complex engineering project, increase of the quality of complex 2D models and makes it easier to ensure consistency across design documentation.

GeniusMechaniCS offers all what's necessary for engineering design:

• standard parts and assemblies
• custom intelligent objects creation
• engineering analysis and displaying results directly on the model
• processing tools, standards-based layout and much more.

Key features:

Library manager, allowing usage, creation and management of manufacturer, customer and standard parts and assemblies:

• Intelligent standard parts library - DIN, ISO, GOST
• Intelligent manufacturer parts library
• Custom parts/assembly integration into library

Library manager is the unified management tool for all supplied manufacturer parts, intelligent standard parts with the corresponding standard part features as well as user parts. It assures productivity increase at finding, selecting, inserting and changing parts and standard assemblies.

Standard parts and the relevant standard part features such as holes, threads, countersinks… are frequently used design elements in technical drawings. Because of the great variety and frequent modifications during the design and dimensioning in the development process, they occupy a great part of the design time.

Since this contains the largest potential for saving time and costs in the design process, GMCS offers a trend-setting intelligent solution for more efficiency.

All the parts and assemblies are generated in native Inventor format and support Inventor native projects technology.

The library manager brings into the designer hands:

• Logic for fast positioning, mounting and connecting standard parts
• Standard systems and required rules
• Intelligence at the part
• Automatic "constraints"
• Logic-check of standard part connections
• Templates for standard part connections
• Knowledge base driven design of threaded fastenings

Parts database and special commands:

A common technology database contains intelligently linked parts. A change made to any part automatically entails appropriate changes in all the other linked parts in accordance with their values in the database

Such design technology is a powerful versatile tool that accelerates your design creation and improves product quality

For instance:
during insertion of a nut on the bolt it automatically determines bolt's size and constraints. If bolt after completion of the fastening must be longer to provide right assembly condition its length automatically changes to the next standard size.

If engineer changes diameter of any part in such assembly - all other linked parts will be corrected automatically.

The same conditions work for parts (bearing, gears, covers, seals and others) placed on shaft or for hydraulic and pneumatic armature connected with pipes.

• Power Part all the parts has special conditions for placement and relationship between others.
• Power Edit using standard Autodesk Inventor double-click technology or Power Edit command simply change representation, modify size and parameters of part.
• Power Group edit using this tool one can simply change placement conditions, replace parts, edit sizes, parameters or types of parts and elements in threaded fastenings, shafts and bearings, or piping.
• Power Copy simply copy GMCS part using native Autodesk Inventor tools and change it sizes or parameters - you'll have real copy or a new part.

It's highly important that both AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor users can benefit from this functionality. GeniusMechaniCS enables using not only standard parts geometry, but also their mechanical properties. Working in AutoCAD you can assign geometry & parametric constrains to assembly components as well as apply predefined layout constrains, and after that transfer assembly to Autodesk Inventor model.

Automated, knowledge base driven design of piping and fittings in assemblies

Special module designed for pneumatic and hydraulic elements of project adds new power in the design process. It allows to simply place holes and valves, unite them using manual and automatic pipeline creation methods. During placement system automatically recognizes size and insertion point of parts, autoconnects them to each other and gives the possibility to control all pipeline in project context: make and edit it relative to existing geometry using 'parallel', 'with offset', 'perpendicular' or 'through hole' options.

MechWizard - system for intuitive capture of design intent and creation of libraries of custom parts and assemblies.

This simple and convenient tool for creating standard parts allows formalizing the rules of object’s behavior in assembly or copying existing objects properties from the database. This simple and convenient tool for creating standard parts allows formalizing the rules of object's behavior in assembly or copying existing objects properties from the database.

• The tool for independent developers of intelligent object libraries.
• Assigning to objects assembly & property constrains both in AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor environment.
• Training standard part's behavior.
• Custom parts creation with predefined parametric & assembly constrains

Knowledge base driven design and calculation of typical assemblies and groups:

• threaded fastenings
• shafts and bearings
• gears and reducers
• analysis of dimensions tolerance chains
• material management and intelligent assignment of material and its properties.

Special automation tools to produce more quality documentation in shortest time.

• Automated generation of Bill of Materials, with flexible and intuitive control of document structure and content.
• Automated generation tables in Autodesk Inventor drawing.
• Automated recognition of symbols, texts and tables in AutoCAD-created drawings for transfer into GMCS documents and models.
• Generation, processing and management of 2D-production drawings, views and cuts from imported 3D model in AutoCAD or AutoCAD Mechanical (supporting Design eXtend technology).