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We had a great meeting and had about185 people to attend!
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Brad
Kelley (former group President) introduced group "What do you want from your RUG?" and
Jacob Connelly presented an overview of PTC's new release named WildFire! We also Had a car on display that was named Wildfire to go along with the new release.
Leo Greene - presented the topic "How to avoid the "gotcha's" of Part Design" We posted the drawing up on the web and challenged users to try it before they arrived to the meeting. Think you're a good Designer - Click Here to take the Challenge!!
Gavin B. Rumble, PE - presented the topic "Imported geometry feature healing and its use in FEA studies and other applications "
You can reach at Solid Engineering & Design
Jon Jarvis - presented the topic "20 tips in 60 minutes"- THere was some questions during Jon's presentation about adding parameters to to the model tree. Here is a short video (no audio) showing how use the model tree to input or modify parameters. It also shows modifications from a repeat region table. It may require a plugin to play.
jon@ptc.com http://www.ptc.com
While some of the users were getting back from the tours. a couple of the vendors presented their technologies that work in conjunction with Pro/engineer.
http://www.symech.com - jonathan.cook@symech.com
HighRES Demo - ARC performance Partner - Christiann@Reverse-it.com
CF design - Kevin.oshea@cfdesgin.com
PTC donated a wildfire T-shirt for every attendee.
Morris Technologies donated $30 gift certificate to Olive garden
Jonathan Cook of Symech donated a gift certificate
Pentagon Engineering donated a HP Digital camera
Cad Train donated a $1500 Dollar credit towards the purchase of any Cadtrain Product.
Cad Train also donated a Sony DVD player!
Doug Brogdon of Advanced Design, Inc Donated a Router
Advanced Design, also donated a wireless mouse!
PDT donated a Pair of Cobra Two-way walkie talkies
Configure One donated a Song portable CD player
Comtrex donated Two DVD players and also provided all the laptops with Wildfire loaded.
Enser Corporation donated a few golf towels and magnetic dry marker board for everyone
Rolta International Inc. donated a $100 gift certificate to Best Buy
Cad/Cam Recruiters donated a $50 cash prize!
We also gave away a bunch of other stuff during some of the question and answer sessions.
User Comments!
"It was an exciting day for me as a user of Pro/Engineer software. I saw capabilities and utilizations of techniques, methods and approaches, software and implementations of Pro/Engineer that totally impressed me. I hope everyone's intention is to become a regular participant in the activities of this user group. Everyone that I talked to said they saw things which will be incorporated into my own daily use of Pro/Engineer. Our goal is to have supervisors and management who have Pro/Engineer being used in their departments should attend these user group meetings as well. They should become involved in the user group activities. They should also be supporters of their employees taking part in the user groups. I believe when supervision and management personnel see what is being done at other companies they will be anxious to incorporate some of those ideas into their own departments."
