If you started your engineering career in the early 2010s, there is a good chance that AutoCAD Mechanical 2012 was your digital drafting board. While the world was getting excited about parametric 3D modeling and cloud collaboration, Autodesk quietly released a version of its mechanical CAD software that many still argue represents the "golden era" of 2D mechanical drafting.
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Published by: The CAD Heritage Journal Reading Time: 6 Minutes If you started your engineering career in the