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May 14, 2005

Welcome to the
SolidWorks Tri-State User's Group
for Ohio, Kentucky, & Indiana

  MEETING ARCHIVES 

May 11, 2005

Thanks to all who came and participated in the fifth STUG meeting held at Deimling-Jeliho Plastics Inc.  in Amelia Ohio. Please allow this to serve as the summary of the meeting (the minutes).

·       Welcoming comments from STUG President, Dave Burbrink.

·       Tom Soudrette, Tooling/Engineering Manager for Deimling gave an overview of Deimling's capabilities and how SolidWorks is integrated into their daily efforts.

·       Dave Burbrink gave a briefing of his trip to SolidWorks World 2005 in Orlando Florida

·       Dave Burbrink announced that he will perform as President for one more meeting, but then is tendering his resignation. The group will vote at the next meeting for a new president or vote to dismantle the group.

·       Dave then gave a presentation on how he and his company, ANZA Designs uses SolidWorks in its business.  ANZA has been in business for 20 years and is an Industrial Design service offering CAD 3D renderings, Rapid Prototyping, and cast urethanes for clients' product visualization. 

·       Following that , Dave then gave a demonstration on SolidWorks Contours capabilities. The demo included how to construct and use Splines, Face Fillets, Curvature Continuous (to smooth hard tangencies), Move/Resize command for non-constrained geometry, Lofting, emphasized to control spines with a minimum  number of control points to improve contour smoothness, and Composite Curves. Dave then concluded his demo by showing his development of a Consumer Bottle product. 

·       The group was split into 3 sub groups and were given tours of Deimling-jeliho Injection Molding and Tooling facility.  The STUG group expresses their appreciation to the 3 guides for an informative tour.

·       Drawings for (2) $50 Gift Certificate to Red Lobster were won by Bob Roth from Fisher Design and Andy Broomel from Xetron, and yours truly, Steven Henderson, Stug Secretary won the grand prize of a $100 bill. 

·       The meeting was adjourned

·       There were (23) SolidWorks users that attended this session.

      Special thanks again to Deimling/jeliho Precision Injection Molding and Jennifer Miller for hosting this meeting.

      The success of this group depends on contributions from you, the users.  We need your help for finding places to host our meetings, as well as people who can give presentations, demos, and even topics...  Please contact myself or Dave Burbrink if you have any suggestions and contributions that will help make our future meetings more fulfilling for your needs as a SolidWorks User.

      Thank you,
Steven Henderson, STUG Secretary

Picture from April 21, 2004 meeting.
Location: Richards Industries, Oakly Ohio

April 21, 2004

 Thanks to all who came and participated in the fourth STUG meeting held at Richards Industries in Oakly. Please allow this to serve as the summary of the meeting (the minutes).

·       Welcoming comments from STUG President, Dave Burbrink.

·       Tony George, President of Richards Industries welcomed the group and introduced the Richards Product lines of Fluid Control Devices. Richards is an independently owned company and was founded in 1956.

·        Dave Behm, Richard’s Product line Engineer, did a presentation of Richard’s 5 different product lines in SolidWorks and explained how SolidWorks is used in their daily business.

·        Vik Vedantham, 3-D Vision Technologies CAE Technical Specialist, gave a presentation of Cosmos analysis packages.  He defined the differences between the different level of packages and showed an example of Motion Analysis on a Verneer Debris Grinder. Then Vik showed how the data from the motion analysis could seamlessly be exported to FEA tools within Cosmos.  He created a study of a component of the grinder, defined the Load and Forces on that component, defined the restraints, let Cosmos generate a Mesh for analysis and ran the analysis to calculate the stresses on the component. Vik then took questions from the group.

·       The group was split into 3 sub groups and were given tours of Richards Facilities.  The guides that led the group were Dave Behm, Bob Luthy, and Mike Petry.  The STUG group expresses their appreciation to these 3 guides for an informative tour.

·       Drawings for (2) $35 Gift Certificate to TGiFridays was won by Dave Koontz of Harris Corporation and Bob Roth from Fisher Design, a $35 Gift Certificate to Max & Erma’s was won by Bill Gable. Dave Behm from Richards Industries won the grand prize of a $100 bill. 

·       The meeting was adjourned

·       There were (27) SolidWorks users that attended this session.

      Special thanks again to Richards Industries and Mike Behm for his presentation

      Also special thanks to Tom Otterman and Vik Vedantham from 3D Vision for their assistance and providing informative content for our meeting.

      The success of this group depends on contributions from you, the users.  We need your help for finding places to host our meetings, as well as people who can give presentations, demos, and even topics...  Please contact myself or Dave Burbrink if you have any suggestions and contributions that will help make our future meetings more fulfilling for your needs as a SolidWorks User.

      Thank you,
Steven Henderson, STUG Secretary

Picture from November 12, 2003 meeting.
Location: Harris Corporation, Mason Ohio

Picture from March 19, 2003 meeting.
featuring Mark Ortiz from Ethicon Endo-Surgery
Location: Cincinnati State & Technical College

March 19, 2003

Thanks to all who came and participated in the second STUG meeting.  Please allow this to serve as the summary of the meeting (the minutes) as well as a quick update with the current direction of our group.

• Welcoming comments from STUG President, Dave Burbrink.

• Steven Henderson introduced himself as the STUG Secretary and informed every one of the group’s new website and online discussion group.

•  Mark Ortiz from Ethicon Endo-Surgery performed his presentation that he gave at SolidWorks World 2003 in Orlando Florida (a summary is listed below).  Mark fielded questions from the members and received support from Todd Bryant from 3D Vision Technologies concerning software performance issues and tips.

•  The floor was open for general discussion. 

• Drawing for the $75 Gift Certificate was won by Mike Brainard.

• The meeting was abruptly adjourned due to a scheduling mis-communication with Cincinnati State Technical & Community College. I apologize to all members for any inconveniences.

SolidWorks as a Design and Business Strategy
by Mark Ortiz from Ethicon Endo-Surgery

Mr. Ortiz explained how to give a compelling case for Solidworks from a Business and from a Design perspective. Many companies have multiple CAD packages in house. The audience learned how to use Solidworks to the fullest so as to promote wider adoption of the software within the company while enhancing their position in their department. An underlying theme of "It's not what you have, but what you do with what you have that counts" was developed based on a very effective illustration that makes this point strongly. The correlation of this theme to their work on Solidworks was carefully shown. A true to life experience was incorporated from Mr. Ortiz’s experience at a former company. He also presented the substantial benefits of Solidworks over competing packages based on his background with I-Deas and Pro-E

A couple of last items:

•  We are already in the hunt for someone to host the next meeting.  If anybody is willing, please contact the appropriate person within your organization, then contact myself or Dave Burbrink.  Richards Industries and Harris Corporation have both expressed an interest in hosting upcoming meetings.  The desire for different meeting locations has been expressed by the members and is our goal to meet.  (If we don’t have to pay for a meeting facility, it will allow us to have better door prizes and meals.)

• The success of this group depends on the users.  We all have to participate!  Please don't think that "someone else will do it...." 

Thank you,
Steven Henderson, STUG Secretary

Picture from December 11, 2002 meeting.
featuring Larry Miller from SolidWorks

December 11, 2002

Thanks to all who came and participated in the first officially recognized SolidWorks' Tri-State User Group.  Please allow this to serve as the summary of the meeting (the minutes) as well as a quick update with the current direction of our group.

• We have adopted the Solidworks proposed agenda with some changes.   The only change is under the section titled "Membership".  Here's the change: "Solidworks Corporation, Solidworks VARS, Solidworks business partners, and non-users are welcome to participate but are not eligible to hold elected positions or vote."

• The group will have two chair positions making up the Chair Committee:  A President and a Secretary.  These positions were filled on a voluntary basis by Dave Burbrink (ANZA, Inc.) and Steve Henderson (E-Prime Group).  A duration has yet to be determined although we are leaning towards a one year term.  This is something that can be changed as the circumstances for our group evolve.

• We will be setting up a STUG website courtesy of E-Prime Group.  We are looking into Yahoo to set up a forum for discussion there as well.  We'll keep everyone posted.

• The database has just about been completed and will continually be revised as new users join.

• Larry Moore from Solidworks direct did an approximate one hour presentation/demo/training session.

• The floor was open for general discussion.

• The meeting was adjourned

A couple of last items:

• The suggestions from the group are being reviewed.  We will take these into consideration and put them to work the best we can.

• Steve Henderson and myself are going to Solidworks World 2003.  We will be representing our group there at the National User Group meeting.  I would like to know who else in our group is going.  Please drop me an email.

• We are already in the hunt for someone to host the next meeting.  If anybody is willing, please contact the appropriate person within your organization, then contact myself or Steve Henderson.

• The success of this group depends on the users.  We all have to participate!  Please don't think that "someone else will do it...."

Thanks again.
Dave Burbrink