NISWUG Meeting Notice for April 21

Northern Indiana SolidWorks User Group

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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: .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.

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