Contest Winners!

Congratulations to the following winners of the PADT Rapid design contest:

1st Place Shelly Barlow - Kihomac
2nd Place Chris Bradford - TDWilliamson
3rd Place Jon Holway - EG&G

Prize Announcement

Phoenix Analysis and Design Technologies will be giving a demonstration of 3d Printing at our next meeting. In connection with their presentation, they have offered a prize promotion.

The first 3 people who see this announcement and respond via email to me (colin.heald@flsmidth.com) will win a free prototype model (printed from one of your files).

Prizes are as follows:

1st prize - 12 cu in model
2nd prize - 9 cu in model
3rd prize - 6 cu in model

If you win, I will contact you to give instructions on what type of file you need to submit. The models will be brought to the User Group meeting on May 28th.

Job Opportunity

I received the following job solicitation:

Regional Account Manager, QuadriSpace Corporation (http://www.quadrispace.com)

- Software Sales Experience, 3D CAD or related software preferred
- Understanding of 3D Documentation products and solutions
- Regional Contacts of 3D users and companies
- Technical Skills necessary to Properly demonstrate 3D software
- Send resumes to jobs@quadrispace.com

Solidtraining Blog

Tyler Beck from GoEngineer has created a new blog where he will be posting training and tips for all things SolidWorks. Check it out here.

Logo Competition Results

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Logo competition. Here are the entries:












The winning entry was submitted by Colin Heald and can be seen at the top of the blog.

Great Q1-09 Meeting

We had a fantastic first quarter meeting on February 26th. Thank you to Mike Spens for his excellent presentation on API programming in SolidWorks. Those of you who are interested in downloading his presentation files can click here.

Thanks also to our other sponsors: Fastenal, FLSmidth, and SolidWorks.

Here are a few photos of the evening.

February Design Challenge

The Slinky!!!