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West Michigan CATIA User Group Meeting

Meeting Announcement
When: Sept. 9,  2009  
Where:
IBM Corporation, Briefing Center - 3rd Floor
2900 Charlevoix DR SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546

Agenda:

Coffee & Sign-in	8:15 - 8:30
Welcome & Introduction Jeff Roark, President WMCUG	8:30 - 8:35
Session 1 :  Introduction to the Automotive COE Workshop Paul Silver, Global IBM Automotive Marketing Manager The AUTO COE Workshop is scheduled for Friday, November 6  in Troy, Michigan.   A one-day format, the event features OEM updates, V5 updates and V6 futures,  and educational 'breakout session' opportunities on topics including Knowledge-Based Engineering, Multi-CAD Integration, 3D FD&T, Efficient Design/Engineering, and featuring CATIA, ENOVIA, DELMIA, & 3DVIA solutions.	8:35 – 8:55
Session 2  : Automotive OEM Update (Ford and Chrysler) Paul Silver, Global IBM Automotive Marketing Manager What are the very latest CATIA software, hardware, and OS standards for Ford suppliers?   We'll present all of the answers for C3P NG P2.0 QD5.3 and show you where to get additional requirement details as a Ford supplier. Also the very latest supplier updates from Chrysler, and information on the appropriate resources to quickly resolve any supplier program challenges.	8:55– 9:25
Break	9:25– 9:40
Session 3:      Introduction to Healing Assistant Kandarp Patel. IBM PLM ,  Automotive Center of Excellence The Healing Assistant provides a set of tools for work on the geometry and topology of surfaces. Parts that have not been created with CATIA V5 may not conform to CATIA V5 standards of validity and be in need of repairs before being used.	9:40 – 10:20
Session 4:   Introduction to Cast and Forged Part Optimizer Kandarp Patel. IBM  PLM,  Automotive Center of Excellence         This application is dedicated to users specializing in casting and forging processes. Because Cast and Forged Part Optimizer delivers capabilities covering the final steps of rough part design, it guarantees a successful integration into the machining process.	10:20- 10:50
Break	10:50– 11:10
Session 5:  Modeling Best  Practices (An Open Discussion)	11:10 - 11:35
WMCUG Open Forum	11:35 – 12:00

                                                 
 
This meeting is sponsored by IBM  
RSVP:        Mike Robinaugh (IBM)        616-942-3896,         Email:  mrobinau@us.ibm.com

*By sending an RSVP you qualify to win one of the door prizes.

                We are on the Web at http://www.coe.org/resources/rugs/wmcug.cfm

Western Michigan Regional User’s Group Meeting

Date:	September 29, 2009 (Lunch/Sign-in: 12:30 – 1:00; Meeting concludes approximately 4:00 p.m.)
Location:	Shape Corp  1825 Industrial Park Dr.  Grand Haven, MI 49417

Shape Corp has several buildings. The meeting will be held at the address above – building   number 5 in the attached link: http://www.shapecorp.com/contact/
Shape Corp. website: www.shapecorp.com

Cost:                   No cost
Registration:         Please register online for this meeting at http://wmich.plmworld.org/meeting-registration/

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 – Agenda
12:30 – 1:00 Lunch, Registration
1:00 – 1:30 Welcome, RUG news, Intro of Companies present
1:30 – 2:30 Presentation: User Defined Features (Chris Pattitoni – Siemens )
2:30 – 3:15 Presentation: Shape case study
3:15 – 3:50 Tour: Tentatively planned
3:50 – 4:00 Wrap up

Heal Geometry

The Heal Geometry application exports the displayed part (or an existing part) to another new NX part to perform any required healing operations on the selected bodies.
As a result, after healing completes the work part is the same as before the application starts.

Healing does not retain associativity (with the healed bodies) that the original bodies had with drawing data, assembly reference sets, or any other type of associativity links.   

How To:

Select File,Export, Heal Geometry.

1. The tiny tolerance value is a measure of geometric feature size, below which the healer takes action to remove the feature.
2. The Specify Output file submenu is available to change the output part name to something other than the shown Output File default part name. The default part name is the work part's file name with a "_hg" suffix, which stands for healed geometry.
3. Choosing OK runs the application.

Each solid highlights during healing.
The NX window status line reports progress as Healing body N of M.

An informational window shows the summary counts of the major healing operations. The system log file also contains an audit trail of the heal operations.

Windows 7 Testing

Fun time in the old CAD Geek cave.  I’m doing some testing with Windows 7.  Initial results are very promising.  From a CATIA perspective as well as just for fun.  Been running it since Beta, then to RC1.  Now I’m running RTM, and all is good.  This is what Vista should have been.

Stay tuned for more information to come!!

GLACOE Meeting Today

Sorry for the late post, but if your in the Troy area GLACOE is happening TODAY at 8:30.  Even of you’re a bit late the information is still good.

Don't miss your free training & CATIA-related updates at our next value-packed GLACOE meeting on Tuesday, August 18th, at the RAMADA PLAZA (formerly the Hilton), 5500 Crooks Rd, Troy, Michigan  48098  (248) 879-2100 (on east side of Crooks, just north of the I-75 entrance).  Please share this invitation with your co-workers or CATIA-focused friends.