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.