November 2009 Meeting

Thanks to all who participated in our November meeting. As usual it was a great event with great technical content and good food, fun and prizes.

Check out these pictures of the meeting:



Giant Party Subs!!



Steve Swensen of FFKR Architects gives a presentation on PhotoWorks/Animator



Tony Rands of Torion Technologies gives a presentation on Detail Engineering Drawings.



Rebecca Lorenc of Merit Medical gives a presentation on Title Blocks.

November Meeting Announcement

Please join us for our next meeting on November 17th. The meeting will be held at FLSmidth (2850 S. Decker Lake Drive) from 5:30 to 8:30.

We will be having several short technical presentations by our users:

Drawing Title Blocks - Rebecca Lorenc of Merit Medical
Detail Engineering Drawings, views, custom properties - Tony Rands of Torion Technologies
Animator/Photoworks - Steve Swensen of FFKR Architects
Sketches and Design Intent - Colin Heald of FLSmidth

There will also be food, prizes and fun as usual!

Please RSVP to Colin or Chad if you plan on attending.

Design Challenge 09 Winners

The first annual NUSWUG Design Challenge is over. The solution to the final challenge, the Megaslinky, can be downloaded here.

Chris Bradford, of Magpie Systems, Inc. and Brian Kwant of FLSmidth tied for first place. After an impartial coin toss, Chris Bradford won an iPod Touch, donated by GoEngineer.



Brian Kwant won a digital camera, donated by FLSmidth.



Jack Nichols, of the CAO Group, was the third place winner and won a universal remote donated by FLSmidth.



Thanks to everyone who participated this year.

August Meeting

We had another very successful meeting in August. Special thanks to Jason Stats of Bard Access Systems. He gave a fantastic tips and tricks presentation. His presentation can be downloaded here.

Here are a few pictures of the meeting:



Great attendance!



DelCAM gave a good presentation on CAM and SolidWorks. They also provided loads of fantastic prizes.



Thank you DelCAM for sponsoring this meeting.