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 LT 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 LT is engineering with AutoCAD LT.

Feature list:

Library manager (LM), 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.

LM is an unified management tool for all supplied manufacturer parts, intelligent standard parts (with the corresponding standard part features such as holes, threads, countersinks,) as well as user parts. It brings 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 LT offers a trend-setting intelligent solution for more efficiency.

All GMCS LT parts connect to each other using parametric and geometry dependencies, bringing the power of parametrical design inside AutoCAD LT.

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 example:

during inserting nut or the bolt it autodetermines its size and autoconstraints. If bolt after constraints must be longer to provide right assembly condition it automatically lengthens to the next standard length size.

If engineer changes diameter of any parts in the assembly - all other linked parts will change automatically.

The same procedure applies for parts (bearings, gears, covers, seals and others) placed on shaft or hydraulics and pneumatics parts connected with pipe.

Power Part
all the parts has special conditions for placement and relationship between others.

Power Edit
using standard Windows double-click technology or Power Edit command simply change representation, modify size and parameters of part.

Power Group edit
using this tool you can simply change placement conditions, replace parts, edit sizes, parameters or types of part and elements in threaded fastenings, shafts and bearings, or piping.

Power Copy
copy GMCS LT part using native AutoCAD tools and change it sizes or parameters.

GeniusMechaniCS LT enables usage of not only standard parts geometry, but also of their mechanical properties. Working in AutoCAD LT you can assign geometry & parametric constrains to assembly components as well as apply predefined layout constrains, and after that transfer assembly to AutoCAD or Autodesk Inventor model from AutoCAD LT environment.

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

Special module designed for pneumatics and hydraulics elements of project can add some new in your design process. Simply place holes and valves, connect them using manual and automatic pipeline creation methods. During placement the system automatically recognizes size and insertion point of parts, autoconnect them to each other and gives you possibility to control all pipeline in project context: you can edit it relative to existing geometry using 'parallel', 'perpendicular' or other options. Using this content and tools you can design 2D layouts and projection views of tubing and piping systems.

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

This versatile and convenient tool for creating standard parts allows formalizing the rules of object's behaviour 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
• Training standard part's behaviour
• 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/Parts list, with flexible and intuitive control of structure and content
• Automated generation of tables
• Automated tools for placing of mechanical symbols in AutoCAD LT drawing - Drawing titles/borders - One-button dimensioning - Surface texture symbol - Welding symbol - Feature Control Frame - Feature Identifier Symbol
• Automated recognition of symbols, texts and tables in AutoCAD LT-created drawings for transfer into GMCS LT documents and models
• Drawing utilities (axis, holes, break|cut lines, chamfer/fillet with dimensions, special arrays and etc.)
• IDF-import of PCB from PCAD and OrCAD
• Generation, processing and management of 2D-production drawings, views and cuts from imported 3D model in AutoCAD LT

System requirements to run GMCS LT:

• Intel Pentium III with 800 MHz
• Windows XP (Professional, Home Edition, Tablet PC Edition)
• 40 MB additional hard disk capacity.
• 512 MB RAM
• 300 MB free fixed-disk storage
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
• CD-ROM drive