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- YSWUG News (updated 5/10/2013):    Back to the Top Our recent SPRING MEETING: We had a fun meeting recently with about 18 people in attendance including a few of CWU's students to hear Elliot Weber's discussion titled  "All in One Design"  "Multi-body Part Designs using Sheet Metal and Weldment tools in SolidWorks”.  He also demonstrated  the new “SoldWorks Electrical”.  Pizza, sub sandwiches and pop were served.  Images, a video link and Elliot's model can be found at the following page link: YSWUG Spring Meeting.  SolidWorks World 2013 at Disney World's Swan and Dolphin was a blast.  For some videos of the fun, including highlights from the general sessions, check out this link at the SolidWorks YouTube channel.  Also, I made a video of a new 3D printer in the partner Pavilion that uses ink and printer paper as a medium.  You can see this video at: Mcor Iris 3D printer. Thinking about future meetings, The results of our recent Topics Survey are in with "Sheet Metal" and "Weldments" tying for first place followed by "Simulation", "Rendering/Photoview360/Animation",  "Drawings and Detailing", "Design Tables/Excel and Configurations" and "Bill of Materials".  We will soon be lining up some speakers to present on these topics.  If you want to present on these topics please contact Chris Scarlett. I have been considering a different venue for our meetings with the thought of renting a banquet room at a local Yakima restaurant.  This could save the company a little money and offer us some better dinner options.  Please refer to the following link for some additional information.  If you have any suggestions let me know.  Meeting Venue - NEXT MEETING, THE SUMMER MEETING:    Back to the Top Tentative, Thursday, September 12th from 6pm to about 8pm at the Oxford Suites in their first floor meeting room (our usual venue), click here for a MAP. RSVP via this link if plan on attending. This meeting will be sponsored by the Rapid Group for "Quick Turn Metal Prototypes, 24 Hour Quotes • 48 Hour Expedites • 1-2 Week Standard Ship • ITAR Registered".  The Rapid Group will be providing raffle prizes for our meeting. Agenda: To be announced. Raffle Drawing: Raffle items, with a drawing at the conclusion of the meeting, include: several $25 gift cards for Barnes and Noble, Exxon-Mobile, Home Depot and more provided by the Rapid Group plus some very stylish apparel items, caps and other SolidWorks related prizes from the SolidWorks Users Group Network. Sponsors:  This meeting will be sponsored by the Rapid Group, SolidWorks Users Group Network and the design team of Jeff Abramson and myself at Enterprise Design and Innovations Free giveaways will be available from SolidWorks partnered companies and include information and disks from: Cad Sharp, Automating SolidWorks with the SolidWorks API, http://www.cadsharp.com/ Template Wizard, Quickly Create Templates for SolidWorks, http://solidworkstemplates.com/   I would like to make our presentations an open forum so that if anyone has something to contribute they are welcome to come up and show us what they know.  Contributions may include a different method or options, a right click mouse button or shortcut menu option, a different application of the subject being presented or similar items.  I would suggest that anyone who contributes like this should also get a choice of prizes during raffle time. RSVP: please confirm that you be attending so we can plan for the food and drink by clicking here: RSVP Autodesk’s 123D review:  As promised, as a follow-up from my email last month, I explored Autodesk’s 123D scanning software and the Meshmixer modeling program and have posted a review on my limited success and potential of these programs.  This can be found on my website at the following link:  http://edi3di.com/discussions/123d-catch-as-a-scanner-for-importing-surface-models/ - FUTURE MEETINGS: HOSTING FUTURE MEETINGS: If your firm is willing to host and give us tour of your facilities that would be most welcome.  Please let me know if you can help here by emailing Chris Scarlett.  One additional advantage to hosting is that it provides some additional funds (that would normally go to renting a room) that we can use to serve a more interesting and compelling dinner fare. PRESENTERS: If you have a suggestion on a speaker or topic for any meeting or if you would like to present, please contact Chris Scarlett.   Chris Scarlett, Jeff Abramson, John Walden, Clem See.  The YSWUG Team.

 

Group Information                 Back to the Top Description:  SolidWorks User Group for Central Washington. Meets quarterly. Contact: Chris Scarlett, Jeff Abramson, John Walden, or Clem See Feedback: Send your suggestions If you have a suggestion on another topic for any other meeting or would like to present, please contact Chris Scarlett - Map, to the Oxford Suites below, click on the image below for a link to Google Maps                                Back to the Top

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