NASWUG

NASWUG July 2010 Meeting Announcement

Ricky Jordan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:35:04 +0000

Join us this Thursday for the North Alabama SolidWorks Users Group (NASWUG) July 2010 meeting. The meeting will be held on Thursday July 15, 2010 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm at the Dynetics Corporate Headquarters Building.

This month’s meeting will feature a Photoview 360 presentation along with an open floor Question and Answer session.

Bring your questions about anything SolidWorks related, and the group will do our best to answer them! (If you have files you would like to bring that are related to your question, please e-mail them along with your question to ricky@naswug.com in advance so we can load the files up for the meeting.)

Dinner will be provided along with Door Prizes to be given away at the end of the meeting.

RSVP for the event today by following the link below to sign up on our online registration form.

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

We’ve had to shuffle the date for this meeting a few times due to unforeseen circumstances, so my apologies for the much shorter notice on this meeting.

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

NASWUG April 2010 Meeting Agenda

Ricky Jordan — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:35:35 +0000

We are a little over two days away from the next NASWUG meeting! Below is the agenda for those interested.

5:00pm – 5:20pm Food/Networking

5:20pm – 5:30pm Announcements

5:30pm – 7:20pm SolidWorks Tips and Tricks – Ricky Jordan & Brian McElyea

7:20pm – 7:30pm Door Prizes

Hope to see everyone there!

NASWUG April 2010 Meeting Announcement!

Ricky Jordan — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:06:04 +0000

The North Alabama SolidWorks Users Group (NASWUG) is proud to announce our April 2010 meeting! The meeting will be held on Thursday April 22, 2010 from 5:00pm to 7:30pm at the Dynetics Corporate Headquarters Building.

Come join us for a SolidWorks Tips and Tricks presentation brought to you by a combination of NASWUG Members!

Dinner will be provided along with Door Prizes to be given away at the end of the meeting.

RSVP for the event today by following the link below to sign up on our online registration form.

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

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

Wrap-up for NASWUG-RSA March (April) Meeting

Ricky Jordan — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:17:55 +0000

We had a great turnout of around 30 people at the NASWUG-RSA March Meeting! Thanks to all who were able to attend. For those that couldn’t attend…we missed you and hope you can make it out for our next meeting. We had a bit of a last minute schedule change and had to move the meeting to Thursday April 1st. That certainly wasn’t the first time and probably won’t be the last time we have to do this. Thanks to Gary Hall for helping get the word out on the meeting date change.

Speaking of Gary, he was our presenter for the meeting. Gary did a GREAT job showing off the many different types of Mates SolidWorks Users can access in Assemblies. It certainly has come a long way in the last several years. I can’t think of any mate types that aren’t covered in the software now. Gary also gave a quick overview on the SolidWorks Certification Program which includes the new Certified SolidWorks Expert program.

We briefly discussed the upcoming April 22nd NASWUG meeting which will feature Tips and Tricks presented by a combination of NASWUG members from across the SolidWorks Software Suite. I was looking for some suggestions on areas of the software that folks would like to see tips and tricks on and the crowd certainly did not disappoint. I got some GREAT ideas. Many of which will be featured in the April 22nd meeting.

We look forward to the next NASWUG-RSA Meeting which we hope to get scheduled soon for May. If anyone has any suggestions on meeting topics, please send them out to Gary Hall or myself. You can also leave a comment on this post with suggestions if you like.

Thanks again for a great meeting.

NASWUG-RSA March 2010 Meeting Announcement!

Ricky Jordan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:17:09 +0000

Good Morning,

The North Alabama SolidWorks Users Group (NASWUG) would like to announce our March 2010 NASWUG-RSA meeting. The meeting will be held on Tuesday March 30, 2010 from 11:00am to 1:00pm on the grounds of the Redstone Arsenal. The meeting will be held at the Redstone Bowling Lanes. This is located just to the right when coming in the Patton Road Gate. (see link for location)

Click Here to view the meeting location in Google Maps

NOTE: Due to construction, turn at the light Aerobee Road and Patton and then right on Zeus Dr.

Come join us for a presentation on SolidWorks Certification and Assembly Mates!

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

If you have any questions regarding the meeting location or time, contact Gary Hall (gary.hall@stanleyassociates.com)

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

NASWUG December 10, 2009 Meeting Notes

Michael Langley — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:39:29 +0000

Hello fellow SolidWorks users. We had our annual year end meeting on Thursday December 10. The attendance was a little light for a year end meeting with only 26 attending. The meeting was held at the beautiful Dynetics HQ building with Ricky Jordan our president presiding. For those who could not make it you missed out on some great food. We had roast beef, garlic mash potatoes and green beans..hmmmmm…Gotcha, just kidding. We had pizza and coke products provided by Papa Johns.
Ricky opened the meeting talking briefly about SolidWorks World and recently released service pack 1 for SolidWorks 2010. He also talked about Presentation Studio and Treehouse 2 in SolidWorks Labs. Then Ricky turned the meeting over to Matt Rece from SoildWorks and Tom Young from Modern Tech.
They did a presentation on “What’s New In SolidWorks 2010” Some of the functions they covered were sheet metal, mates, visualization, mouse jesters, weldments, drawings, toolbox, and virtual parts.
After the presentation Ricky gave the closing comments, talking about Solidworks education in the local area and asking for volunteers to help in some training classes. Ricky also asked for feedback and suggestions for future meetings.
At the end of the meeting we drew for prizes. Lloyd Philpott won the grand prize of a Logitech Nano cordless laser mouse donated by 3D Connection. MLC Cad Systems also donated 3 gifts cards.
Thanks to Matt and Tom for outstanding presentations. And just a note to all members. Anyone interested in presenting on a topic should contact Ricky Jordan. We always get outstanding presenters from the SolidWorks community and sometimes don’t realize the wealth of experience within our own group.
P.S. Thanks to Jim Clyburn for filling in for me and compiling the above meeting notes.

5th Annual NASWUG Year End Meeting Announcement!

Ricky Jordan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:51:01 +0000

The North Alabama SolidWorks Users Group (NASWUG) is proud to announce our 5th Annual NASWUG Year End meeting! The meeting will be held on Thursday December 10, 2009 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm at the Dynetics Corporate Headquarters Building.

Matt Rece of SolidWorks Corporation will be on hand to present What’s New in SolidWorks 2010! Matt is a Territory Technical Manager for SolidWorks and is one of the most knowledgeable users around!

As a group we normally like to schedule our meetings with a little more notice, but that wasn’t possible this time due to some challenges beyond our control.

Grand Prize giveaways are in the works, so stay tuned to the NASWUG site for the latest information.

Dinner will be provided along with LOTS of Door Prizes to be given away at the end of the meeting.

RSVP for the meeting today by following the link below to sign up on our online registration form.

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

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

NASWUG Jun, Aug & Oct 2009 Meeting Notes

Michael Langley — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:51:43 +0000

Sorry folks about the long delay on the last three meeting notes … but I do have some good reasons. My wife and I were in Australia for our youngest daughter’s wedding when Gary Hall held the June 10th NASWUG-RSA meeting. We then hosted guests from Australia through July 4th weekend. At the June 10th meeting there were 13 in attendance and there were no special presentations just basic Q&A meeting. That being the middle of summer a lot of folks were probably on vacation. Then a power saw incident had my typing ability significantly reduced while a finger healed. I was very lucky to say the least in that I did not lose any digits and the finger is healing very nicely although still sensitive to being bumped.
The August 27th NASWUG meeting was held at our usual location at Dynetics HQ We had about 40 people in attendance (misplaced the attendance) and Mike Puckett was our guest presenter. Ricky Jordan announced the October meeting would be an in-house presentation on What’s New 2010, mentioning that there are over 200 enhancements in SW2010. The CSWP exam covers the basic core modeling specialist. Also available are the Advanced Sheet Metal module, Advance Surfacing module and FEA (simulation). Mike Puckett heads up the SolidWorks certification activities. The online certification testing requires any version of SolidWorks 2008, SP3 or later. Mike Puckett mentioned the online CSWP exam and any SWUGN User Group member in attendance would be eligible for a FREE code to take the test. Now the fun stuff. Mike’s presentation, titled Tips & Tricks (Mish-Mash), was very interesting and as always educational. A big thanks to Mike for sharing his knowledge with us.
This brings us up to the last meeting, NASWUG-RSA on October 1st at the RSA Bowling Alley meeting room. With about 25 in attendance (this attendance list must have taken off with the previous one as well), Gary Hall conducted a general Q&A and demo session. Some of the more interesting points covered were use of fillet expert, use of pattern of points to equally divide a curve and then use of a hole table to extract the coordinate points. The ModernTech Mechanical What’s New in SolidWorks 2010 rollout will be in Huntsville on Oct. 20th from 8-12. All active subscribers should have an email on this but if not you can get the details from the their website. http://www.moderntechmech.com/ Ricky Jordan then presented a mini What’s New 2010 touching on the highlights of what to expect. The main areas to expect include, mouse gestures, reference planes, multi-body sheet metal, multi-body materials assignment, diplay states in parts and drawings, assembly visualization, drawings dimensioning, mirror components, virtual componenets and display states in parts. Ricky mentioned there had been a delay in the CSWP exam codes for last months and this months attendees but he would follow up with an email to everyone soon. As of this writing everyone eligible should have received an email from Ricky to which a response is required to get the codes. Everyone agreed that the meeting room location at the bowling alley worked out very well.

October 2009 NASWUG-RSA Meeting Announcement

Ricky Jordan — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:25:42 +0000

Good Morning,

The North Alabama SolidWorks Users Group (NASWUG) would like to announce our October 2009 NASWUG-RSA meeting. The meeting will be held on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 from 11:00am to 1:00pm on the grounds of the Redstone Arsenal. The meeting will be held at the Redstone Bowling Lanes. This is located just to the right when coming in the Patton Road Gate. (see link for location)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=3454+zeus+dr,+huntsville,+al&sll=34.681888,-86.627433&sspn=0.007296,0.010911&ie=UTF8&ll=34.682637,-86.628442&spn=0.007923,0.013626&t=h&z=17&iwloc=A

NOTE: Due to construction, turn at the light Aerobee Road and Patton and then right on Zeus Dr.

The session will be general Q&A with some specific tips in areas of part construction and modeling. If you have any questions that you’d like to submit ahead of the meeting, we’ll be happy to look at them first.

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

If you have any questions regarding the meeting location or time, contact Gary Hall (gary.hall@stanleyassociates.com)

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

August 2009 Meeting Announcement!

Ricky Jordan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:46:59 +0000

After a bit of a break this summer, the North Alabama SolidWorks Users Group (NASWUG) is proud to announce our August 2009 meeting! The meeting will be held on Thursday August 27, 2009 from 5:00pm to 7:30pm at the Dynetics Corporate Headquarters Building.

Come join us for NASWUG Certification night! Mike Puckett from the Certification Group at SolidWorks Corporation will be on hand to give an overview of the Certification Program. For those of you who just can’t get enough GREAT technical tips, Mike will also be giving a Tips and Tricks presentation.

Dinner will be provided along with LOTS of Door Prizes to be given away at the end of the meeting.

RSVP for the event today by following the link below to sign up on our online registration form.

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