You can use Autodesk documentation to help you learn, use, and develop applications for AutoCAD Mechanical software. All learning resources are available with your product. Some are also available in print and downloadable formats.

Note: You must save the file locally before opening the chm file.

User’s Guide

The AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 User Guide offers a tour of the major features, using realistic engineering drawings and data. It also describes concepts, and provides step-by-step procedures, and a command summary.

Getting Started Guide

The AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 Getting Started Guide provides concepts and short exercises to help you get started with AutoCAD Mechanical.

Configuration and Setup Guide

This guide contains information about how to configure the drafting standard and establish settings before you start drawing. It also provides information on how to set up defaults for mechanical structure.

Online Help
The AutoCAD Mechanical Help is your comprehensive guide to learning and using all aspects of the AutoCAD Mechanical software. It is a complete online guide to virtually every aspect of the software that includes general information about all features of AutoCAD Mechanical, procedural information on how to perform various tasks, tutorials, and an extensive reference section.

Mechanical Features Workshop

Designed especially for AutoCAD users, this guide will help you understand the many of benefits of moving to AutoCAD Mechanical, how your current workflows may change as a result of the move, and how to prepare for the move.

AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 SDK

This SDK contains libraries, header files, documentation and samples for AutoCAD Mechanical APIs, which provide object-oriented C++ programming interfaces for developers to use, customize and extend AutoCAD Mechanical software. Please refer to the readme for changes to this release of SDK.

Previous Releases

• http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/s012/images/bullet.gif); list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; padding: 0px;">AutoCAD Mechanical 2009 Documentation
• http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/s012/images/bullet.gif); list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; padding: 0px;">AutoCAD Mechanical 2008 Documentation

*Note: You must save the file locally before opening the chm file.