February 2009 NASWUG-Redstone Arsenal Meeting Announcement!

It’s been a while since our last NASWUG-RSA meeting but I’m happy to report we are back and better than ever

The North Alabama SolidWorks Users Group (NASWUG) would like to announce our February 2009 NASWUG-RSA meeting. The meeting will be held on Thursday February 26, 2009 from 11:00am to 12:50pm on the grounds of the Redstone Arsenal. The meeting will be held at the Prototype Integration Facility (PIF) located just behind Building 5400 off Martin Road.

NASWUG-RSA President Gary Hall will be on hand to give a presentation on the SolidWorks DimXpert and its uses with GD&T. Also included will be a look at the MANY benefits of Mate References.

The meeting is open to all SolidWorks users who have their own pass to get on the grounds of the Arsenal.

Lunch and door prizes will be provided.

To RSVP, click on the link below and fill the form. Don’t forget to hit “Submit” when you are done!

http://www.naswug.com/meeting-rsvp/

You will receive a confirmation e-mail upon submitting your RSVP.

Don’t miss your opportunity to network with fellow SolidWorks users, gain valuable information, get free food, and pick up some cool prizes!  See you there!

NASWUG January 27 Meeting Notes

We started the new year with 34 in attendance at our January meeting at the Dynetics HQ building.  As I write this, I am making last minute preparations to attend SolidWorks World 2009 in Orlando.  We welcomed 6 new members in attendance.  Ricky Jordan, NASWUG president, began the meeting with announcements and comments about the upcoming SWW2009 and also about SolidWorks Labs new additions.  Some of the new additions include Tagger, Treehouse, Collada Export, and Presentation Studio.  For more details visit the SolidWorks Labs site, http://labs.solidworks.com 

Ricky presented on Custom PCB Design.  This was a warm-up for his upcoming presentation at SWW.  The presentation highlighted concepts and processes, and specific SolidWorks features useful in PCB Design and collaboration as well as some “gotchas” of which to be aware..  And that folks is the key …“collaboration”  You have to closely collaborate with the electrical design folks in a back and forth iterative process.  For the mechanical aspects it is important to specify only those requirements to make the interfaces work, leaving as much leeway as possible for the electrical design and layout.  For those with SolidWorks Premium, you know you have CircuitWorks and other subscribers have CircuitWorks Lite. At the conclusion, Ricky asked for feedback positive and negative.  Good job, Ricky!

Gary Hall mentioned that the NASWUG RSA group is looking forward to starting up their meetings again at RSA, probably near the end of February. That’s all folks … see you in Orlando and if not there at the next NASWUG meeting.