Fall Meeting

Held at IRCC South Tech in Stuart

Friday November 30, 2001

 

 

 

Sign in and continental breakfast 8:30 – 9:30

The Atlantic Bread Company had a wonderful assortment of freshly baked breads, pastries, coffee, juices and other beverages.

FL.U.U.G Overview:

Joe Martinez (President) opened the meeting, recognizing officers

From left:

Vice President Karen Deputy, Secretary Paul Soles, President Joe Martinez, Technical Director Art Naveira, Treasurer David Anderson.

 

·        Collaborations with National Users Group/EDS Solutions Establishing FLUUG as a Non-Profit Group under National.

·        Food for the day (Atlantic Bread Company) provided by EDS.

·        The community college working to set up training - incorporating employers.

·        The by laws submitted under National User Group umbrella.

·        Tax exempt status – through National.

·        Web site – to be updated often with User Group progress.

·        Welcome to all new members.

 

Anticipate 3 meetings per year.

Next meeting to be held after the National Meeting - May 2002 at Palm Beach Community college.

 

EDS/PLM Overview:

Joseph Bosco of EDS discussed the state of the company.

·        EDS purchased UGS in the spring and last month bought SDRC.

·        EDS Product Life Cycle Management software, services, and global resources.

·        Overview of EDS size and position in the industry as well as products and services available.

EDS/PLM Training Overview:

Joe Michaud of EDS - Southern Region Education Manager discussed EDS/PLM training and blended training solutions.

What they can do for you – blended training makes you more productive, software is not much good to you unless you know how to use it.

·        Traditional class training  - 7 mobile centers available

·        Live instructor led on-line Seminar

·        24/7 On-line pre recorded seminars

·        Web based tutorials

·        Assessments – built in the product

·        Learning mgmt system

 

CAST is going away.

Web based solutions offers:

·        40 courses

·        Custom course builder with existing cast lessons (you can still take) you can build your own course to meet your specific requirements.

·        Instructor led courses

 

-         Self paced training $35.00 Month

-         Recorded on-line $200.00

-         Instructor Led $700.00

-         Live on-line Price varies

Note: you must have UG were you are taking on-line class

Question asked concerning certification classes to be held.

A questionnaire would be sent out to see where interests lie for a possible May class.

 

Dan Popuvici Applications Engineer of Faro Technologies established in 1981 spoke about products and services available from Faro. Faro is ISO registered and located in Lake Mary Florida.

Products include the control system, softcheck tools – a 3D-measuring package checking fixture, the FARO arm 3D-measurement device which is portable and articulating with various mounting options, CAM2 software that brings everything together.

Dan covered some of their customer’s needs and how they were able to help them.

The FARO arm is capable of measuring large parts that cannot be done by standard CMM. Dan performed a live presentation.

 

 

Lunch break -   The lunch provided by EDS was excellent. The box lunch choices were Turkey, Roast Beef, Pastrami and Ham.

 

The Meeting reconvened at about 12:45PM with the Training sessions.

 

Training Instructor John Shuba of EDS covered UDF, Spreadsheet Applications and Shape Studio.

¨      The first to session was UDF “User Defined Features”. Some attendees seemed to have a powerful understanding of this feature, and many were eager to learn how to create “Part Families”.

¨      As the variables used in part families are often organized in a spreadsheet this naturally led to the next session covering spreadsheets. This was particularly helpful to our company, as we were looking for a more convenient way to organize point clouds.

¨      The Third and final session involved “Shape Studio” which was helpful in designing artistic surfaces. This module has powerful features that allow the designer to have great control over shapes, and tools to analyze the quality of surfaces. A flexible but limited analysis module was demonstrated. The advantage of this seems to be that engineers with limited knowledge of stress analysis can use it and is much simpler than traditional tools. It is limited to rough calculations for Industrial designers while using Shape Studio.

 

 

An Open Forum was held for Q&A following the sessions. After a series of interesting questions the official meeting was brought to a close

 

 

Door Prizes:

Everyone had been waiting with great anticipation for the last item on the agenda. This was the awarding of the door prizes.

Sponsors donated many fantastic items, and the users group provided the additional prizes, which guaranteed everyone, won something.

The winners of the most coveted prizes were as follows:

1)      A one-week free training certificate valued at $2,000 was donated by EDS and was won by Rick Christianson of Sea Ray Boats.

2)      A one-week free training certificate valued at $2,000 was donated by EDS and was won by Art Naveira of TurboCombustor Technology.

3)      A certificate for Unigraphics Achievement Certification valued at $500 was donated by EDS and was won by Dean Allen of Marlin Industries.

4)      A certificate for Unigraphics Achievement Certification valued at $500 was donated by EDS and was won by Brad Davis of the New Piper Co.

5)      A Buy one get one free, one week training certificate valued at $2,000 was donated by EDS and was won by Pete Zsiros of TurboCombustor Technology.

6)      A Buy one get one free, one week training certificate valued at $2,000 was donated by EDS and was won by Richard Peterson of Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies.

7)      The “Space Ball” was donated by 3D-Connexion and was won by Wayne Eubanks of B/E Aerospace.

8)      The “Space Mouse” was donated by 3D-Connexion and was won by Joe Martinez of United Engineers/Pratt & Whitney.

9)   T-shirts were donated by Cad Potential.

10) Monogrammed shirts & Can Cozies were donated by the Florida UG Users Group.

11) Cups, Note pads, Power Screwdrivers, Flashlights and Key chains were donated by the National Users Group

 

 

 

Vendor displays and demos by the following companies:

v     EDS Unigraphics

v     3D-Connexion

v     CAD Potential

v     ADI

v     Faro

v     Z-Corporation