Preface (Tutorial)

The CAD6studio and CAD6industrie tutorial contains a whole host of illustrated and detailed examples which will show you how to fully exploit the capabilities of the application.

Working with the Tutorial

Different people learn in different ways. Mostly people start learning a new application by playing with it. And this is certainly a good way that we support. Malz++Kassner CAD6 complies with the Windows user interface guidelines and offers a lot of functions which were especially developed to make the first steps as easy as possible. But there will be a point where you recognize that it is quite difficult to go further just by playing and that is exactly the point where the tutorial comes into play.

This tutorial is intended to be used side by side with the application. You can use the ALT+TAB key combination to switch between application and tutorial. When you work through chapter "Practical Examples" you will switch frequently between the tutorial and the application. Because the best way to learn from these examples is to go through them by redrawing them yourself.

Malz++Kassner CAD6 is a flexible application. There are several ways of carrying out commands and you can use various drawing methods to create a drawing. For this reason, you should start by trying all the different ways of accomplishing a task to see which one suits you best.

All graphics and tables used in this tutorial were generated with CAD6studio and imported as PNG file. Markings are output as crosses, in order to generate the point markings quickly and easily.

Rules

The first part of this chapter explains, step by step, how to make a drawing. A requirement to follow this example through is an identical system configuration. Therefore we recommend that you import the file elements "Page Format", "Line Sequences", "Coordinate Systems", "Pens", "Line Patterns", and "Layers" from the Tutorial.mkd configuration file by means of the command File > Import > Malz++Kassner CAD6 (*.MKD). If other settings are needed, this is made clear at the start of the example.

The file Tutorial.mkd along with other sample files is located in the Tutorial directory in your Malz++Kassner CAD6 directory. In case you have downloaded the tutorial from our website then you should copy the downloaded drawing files (*.MKD) into the Tutorial directory in your Malz++Kassner CAD6 directory. The file mktutor6.chm should be always located directly in the Malz++Kassner CAD6 directory.

Standards

All of these examples are based on DIN 15 (DIN = Deutsche Industrienorm, German Standard). This standard lays down, amongst other things, which line type is used for which purpose. In technical drawing, 2 line groups are used most of the time, identified by their full line widths. These are the line groups 0.5 and 0.7. Only lines from one line group should be used in each drawing.

The choice of line group should be made according to the type of part to be drawn. Simple, large parts should be drawn using the 0.7 group and smaller more detailed ones with the 0.5 group.

Representation

In the examples, the Construction Aid is shown as a dotted line. Drawn objects are shown with the relevant pen properties.

Defaults

For certain object types (dimensions, dimension numbers and text) it is possible to specify the pens to be used before starting the drawing. These defaults are set by choosing Manage > Pens > Defaults. If the line group 0.5 is usually used, the pen "0.5 mm\Solid Line Narrow" should be assigned to these object types as the default. This saves the need to change pens when adding a dimension; the application does it automatically.