AutoCAD software lets you design, visualize, and document your ideas clearly and efficiently. With AutoCAD 2009 you’ll move to new highs of productivity. New features accelerate tasks, allow commands to be easily found, and help rapidly train new users.

What’s New in AutoCAD 2009
AutoCAD software lets you design, visualize, and document your ideas clearly and efficiently. Autodesk redesigned the user interface of AutoCAD 2009 software to accelerate tasks, allow commands to be easily found, and help rapidly train new users.

Ribbon
With the ribbon interface, overall drafting productivity is increased as the number of steps to reach a command is decreased. The ribbon interface presents command options in a concise visual format, allowing you to quickly select commands based on the work you’re doing. Moving between applications is now quick and intuitive. The ribbon is both customizable and expandable so that it can be optimized for each user and meet each company’s standards.

ViewCube and SteeringWheels
The ViewCube is an interactive tool used to rotate and orient any solid or surface model in AutoCAD. Selecting a face, edge, or corner of the cube brings the model quickly to that predefined orientation. Clicking and holding the ViewCube allows the model to be freely roated in any direction. Since the cube is in a fixed location on the screen, it provides at-a-glance orientation. The ViewCube will be introduced in all Autodesk products as a common tool for working with 3D models.

In addition to allowing quick access to the orbit command, the new SteeringWheels tool allows quick access to the pan, center, and zoom commands. The SteeringWheels is highly customizable so you can add walk through commands to help create and record a walk-through of your model.
Features:
Solid and Surface Modeling and Visualization
User Interface
Action Recorder
Autodesk ViewCube and SteeringWheels
Annotation Scaling
Menu Browser
Layer Dialog

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STR 101 Structural Analysis

Types of Structures - Members, joints and supports - Analysis of
statically determinate beams and frames (stability, equilibrium,
reactions, internal forces : normal, shear, and bending moments) -
Analysis of statically determinate plane trusses - Analysis of beams
subjected to moving loads.

STR 102 Structural Mechanics

Properties of plane sections - Stresses and deformations in axially
loaded members - Normal stresses due to axial forces and biaxial
moments - Shear stresses in symmetrical solid and hollow sections -
Torsion stresses and deformations in circular and non-circular sections
-Combined stresses (transformation of stresses, principal shear and
normal sresses).

STR 201 Structural Analysis

Deflections (differential equation, energy method, virtual work
method)- Influence lines for statically determinate structures -
Analysis of statically indeterminate structures by consistent
deformation method using matrix formulation - Three moment equation.

STR 203 Structural Mechanics

Normal stresses on composite sections and sections of plane curved
beams - Normal streses in elastic and plastic materuials - Shear flow
and shear center - Torsion of thin walled tubular members - Shear
stresses on unsymmetrical box and multicell sections - Fracture
mechanics - Buckling of columns and beam columns.

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It gives shape to our world. Everyone knows things like cars, computers, airplanes, and bridges are all products of imaginative engineering. But so are bubble gum, baseball bats, movie special effects, roller coasters, and synthetic human tissue replacements. Engineers have a hand in designing, creating, or modifying nearly everything we touch, wear, eat, see, and hear in our daily lives. Their innovations fuel economic growth, fortify national security systems, improve healthcare, and safeguard the environment.
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