New England SolidWorks Users Group Fall Meeting November 6, 2003

Join New England SolidWorks Users at the Fall Meeting on Thursday
November 6, 2003 at Mass Bay College in Wellesley.

Register by email To: , Subject: NE SolidWorks
Users Group

The event is free, but please register to attend for security, fire
code and parking reasons.

For questions or vendor participation, please email Marie Planchard at



Tentative Agenda:

12:30 pm Vendor Area Opens
1:00 pm Introduction M. Planchard

1:15 pm - 2:00 pm

Keynote Address: Customizing PDMWorks 2004 to Adapt to Your Workflow,
by Michael LaFleche - Technical Account Manager - SolidVision


PDMWorks is well known within the CAD community to be the easiest to
use Document Management system that the industry has witnessed.
However, implementing it properly to match your needs is critical for
the success of your Document Management system. It requires some
forethought about the way information flows throughout your
organization. PDMWorks includes tools to help you attain success and
that is what will be covered in this session.

Attendees to this session will gain knowledge of the tools that come
with PDMWorks 2004 out of the box that make a successful
implementation of PDMWorks realistic. You will also gain a clear
understanding of Lifecycle tools and applications of the "Advanced
Server" application from PDMWorks.

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Vendor Time and Networking
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm Breakout Sessions

"Using Toolbox in a Shared Environment" Joy Pineau, Product Manager
SolidWorks
There have been a number of issues regarding the set-up and use of
Toolbox in a shared environment.
This presentation is designed to explain the proper method of setting
up
Toolbox for shared usage with an emphasis on determining which client
option settings best serve your companies specific needs.
We will also look at changes made in SolidWorks 2004 regarding the
merging of shared Hole Wizard and Toolbox data. This is designed to
be an informal, educational session tailored to user
specific questions.

VBA - Behind the Curtain, Guy Edkins, The Delta Group
View creative tools to take a SW assembly structure and create a cost-
Excel BOM with hyperlinks to the actual SW files. Since Excel now
can create HTML directly one can then create a intranet/internet
webpage that is useable by anyone with a browser that links directly
to the SW objects (no matter where the files are are on the network)
and the SW files appear directly in the browser to boot! It's slick
and has real world advantages for people.

3:15 pm - 3:40 pm Vendor Time and Networking
3:40 pm - 4:15 pm Breakout Sessions

Cosmos 2004 Highlights SolidWorks Corporation
Find out what is new in COSMOS family of products for 2004

Creating SolidWorks Multimedia Presentations; Marie Planchard, Mass
Bay
SolidWorks Multimedia CDs and short movie files are created for
instructional presentations and hip-hop marketing demos. Take
SolidWorks information utilizing a variety of file formats such as
avi, jpeg and pdf(2004) and add sound and convert to flash format for
quick web-based or cd-based presentations. Go beyond PowerPoint for
your customer, in house presentations or students. Camtasia by
TechSmith will be utilized to show a quick presentation to record
SolidWorks assembly, edit avi, record/edit voice, add special effects,
combine with different file outputs to create a movie and convert to
web file formats.


4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Raffle and Summary
Raffle includes a copy of ShapeWorks or PictureWorks by Baren-Boym
company, SolidWorks shirts and other prizes.