Shaft parts are relatively common in mechanical drawings. They are generally symmetrical, or partially symmetrical in the middle part. DWGSee CAD has added some speical commands, such as dimension drive, dimension symmetry drive, shaft chamfering, etc., which are specially processed to edit shaft parts more quickly.

Below we use DWGSeeCAD to draw a simple shaft part, by the way, we will introduce some special functions for shaft parts in DWGSee CAD.

Create a new drawing and set the layer

DWGSee CAD uses the automatic layer function by default, create new drawing will have some common layers.

For example, if you draw dimension on the drawing, the dimension object will be in the dim layer automaticly.

The shaft part drawing is symmetrical. In order to avoid repeated operations, only draw a part of the outline, and then perform editing operations such as mirroring and stretching to complete it.

Draw a centerline #

Use the line command to draw the contour lines #

Turn on the orthogonal F8, for quickly draw contour, you may just click the mouse to draw lines directly.

Mirror contour lines and then join lines #

Add quick dimensions and modify the diameter dimension text #

Use Dimension Driven to modify the size of the objects #

How to use dimension driven in DWGSee CAD?

Use DIM Symmetrical Driven to modify the diameter size of the objects #

How to use Dim symetrical driven in DWGSee CAD?

Use command SHAFTCHAMFER to do chamfer #

How to use shaft chamfer?

Use command SHAFTUNDERCUT to do undercut #

How to use shaft undercut?

Insert roughness from design center #

Use command DIMCHAMFER to add chamfer dimension #

Add Geometric Tolerance #