2. Presentation/Demo on CATIA Companion by Pierre-Louis Racine - IBM Canada

• V5 Web Based Learning (Companion Product)
• Successor to V4 CBT
• Web Based Learning family of products
• Uses web technology
• Announced April 25, 2000
• Ideally suited for MD2 configuration
• Single gateway to all info and training about CATIA V5 - replaces the teacher
• Has best practices, guided path and a quiz
• Can be shareable or at an enterprise level
• On NT and soon to come on UNIX

3. SOLID Import presentation/demo by Tom Goodfellow from TBM Technologies.

• Publish and Import feature within SOLID function
• Important feature - eliminates the need to copy solids over; grabs an image - you can mill it, release it, all changes incorporated with machined features, provides casting for other manufactures to view

Tom spoke of machining operations to an imported solid - fast/easy/accurate

• You can publish the Solid more than once - need good methodology and naming convention
• Tells you right away if model is not synchronized
• Can use for assemblies/casting/tooling/kinematics/simultaneous engineering/analysis/protecting proprietary info
• All data is in one model to change, manipulate, tamper proof, cuts down on duplication of work

Steve presented 2 videos on COE - provided an overview of what COE is all about.

Spring COE was more of a V5 trend - what’s in/what isn’t/futures; also focus on ENOVIA, CDM, transferring data, manufacturing, DPC sessions

Next COE is in St. Louis/Missouri - week of October 1/2000 - check out the COE website for further details/registration: www.coe.org

5. CATIA Users Group - GOLF TOURNAMENT - SEPTEMBER 7, 2000

Where:

Rolling Hills/Clublink - 302 Fairlawn Avenue, Stouffville, Ontario

Jim Cleland from DaimlerChrysler is scheduled to present - topics of interest the users would like Jim to present on:

• In the last 4-6 weeks, why won’t they accept tier 1,2 suppliers?
• V5 Direction plans / Roll out - precise programs
• Data management - how do they control between sites, multiple models - VPM/ENOVIA/CDM
• Car Lines - new platforms/projects/what’s new and exciting since the merger?
• Internalized project files

If you do not wish to attend the golf tournament, but want to attend dinner/speaker - you just need to pay for dinner - more details on the Golf tournament will be published on our website shortly (www.cuco.org). Cut-off dates will be published in the next couple of weeks.

6. Preparing Part for FEA presented by Steve Hotchkiss - L&H Consultants, Inc.

• Design - FEA - Customer
• Speed up FEA Bottleneck
• Ensure geometry complete, all surfaces meet, create part with fewest number of surfaces, create skins whenever possible (makes analysis easier)
• Use layers effectively to give the analyst the clearest picture; create solids; erase all unwanted geometry; when you design your part, try to avoid small faces; before you send your part - go through GPS - eliminates modifications analysis does to your part
• By running GPS, you’re not eliminating the FEA person - it will ASSIST them

TO DO: Steve to provide a list of helpful websites to be added to the CUCO website

Topics for Future sessions: Skin Function, Tangency Control, Splines/Arcs

Next Meeting: Monday, November 13, 2000 from 1-5 p.m./IBM 3600 Auditorium

Clarification: V4-V5 Migration - There is approximately a 3 month overlap period to get from V4 to V5 for users. Eventually, you will need to eliminate Version 4.