NISWUG Meeting Notice for April 21

Northern Indiana SolidWorks User Group

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haven't please do so now.

Announcing the first 2009 NISWUG meeting.

* Date: April 21, 2009
* Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
* Location: Comfort Suites - Elkhart South (SR19 & CR24) 27838
CR24, Elkhart, IN 46517
* Food and drink provided.
* Cost: $3.00
* Agenda:
o Intro
o What's all that linkage stuff anyway?
o Managing Large Assemblies - Richard Wand
o Stump the Experts (this will be pretty short in this meeting)
o Summary and Prizes

What's all that linkage stuff anyway? is a presentation by a Notre Dame
professor on how to design linkages. The first part of the presentation
will deal with designing a linkage to store a bicycle overhead. The
second part will deal with getting a linkage to control a valve closure.
If you are working on a project in which you have to get things to move
a certain way you won't want to miss this. SolidWorks of course has no
problem modeling linkages, but when you want to get a prescribed motion
or put something in a certain position you are left with trial and
error. This presentation will help remove some of the trial and error
and perhaps give you some new problem solving ideas that you can
implement in SolidWorks.

Managing Large Assemblies is based on Richard Wand's SolidWorks World
presentation. It provides users with tips, tricks and techniques to
improve large assembly performance in SolidWorks (or any other cad
package). The methods shown may require different procedures than users
are accustomed to using, but the resulting performance improvements can
be as large as 50-60%. Just like modeling for FEA requires different
techniques from normal modeling, modeling for large assembly may require
different techniques too. This presentation will summarize the many
techniques that we use on a daily basis to manage our large assemblies
of up to 50,000 components.
Richard is president of MJ Engineering in Westerville, Ohio.

 

The prize list is growing and is open to registered attendees.