Orange County Solidworks User Group

In case you’re not aware the Annual SolidWorks World User Conference is being held in San Diego this year, this event usually exceeds over 4,000 attendees customers from around the world.   If you’re interested below is a special code that will provide you with free access to the Partner Pavillion / Exhibit Hall (where you can explore hundreds of integrated 3^rd party products that compliment SolidWorks).

Please feel free to forward to your staff.

Code:

SWEX12111

http://www.solidworks.com/sww/?scid=hp_mar_3_sww12-early-bird

Please note this does not provide free entry into the main user conference, the full conference provides many opportunities to further your education with SolidWorks related technology.

Open House Flyer 11-12-11

The open house was last week however I know they are still looking to fill some openings.

Good Luck

My name is Adrian Erb. I am the Department Head for Mechanical and Architectural Design at Long Beach City College. I am looking for a part-time instructor to teach SolidWorks on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in the fall. Perhaps someone would be interested. I may be contacted at me email address – aerb@lbcc.edu If you have any ideas for filling this position I would appreciate your help.

Thank you for your time,

Adrian Erb

Our next meeting will be:

Thursday, Nov 17  2011
Time:  6:30 – 9:00 pm

Presentation 1.
“Detailing Sheet Metal Drawings for manufacturability”

Jeffrey L. Davis
Span-O-Matic Inc.
jdavis@spanomatic.com
Phone: (714)256-4700 Ext.33
Fax: (714)256-4401
www.spanomatic.com

Presentation 2.
What’s new in Solidworks 2012

PLEASE RSVP

I have recently converted our company over from another CAD package (Cadkey) to Solidworks. Ironically, at the same time we were “downsized” and all of my drafting persons were absorbed by the corporate structure, and redistributed to other subsidiaries in the organisation (we are the smallest subsidiary of a 4 company corporation). As the head of document control, Engineering manager, Supervisor of all optical/mechanical assembly & calibration, and the primary “go to guy” for bidding on new systems,  I am finding myself spending 90% of my time doing detailed drafting for documentation purposes, rather than the engineering and developing of new products that I am supposed to be doing (we build one of a kind test instrumentation for the US gov, and the heavy hitters in the aerospace and defense industry). We are currently under a corporate mandated hiring freeze, but we can bring on “consultants” without involving the HR department or the “bean counters” as long as we price the costs of the consulting fees into the contract (no problem). I can (and prefer to) do all of the engineering and modeling myself, but I desperately need to farm out the detailed drafting tasks to free up more of my time. I have all the templates and file structures in place. I have set it up to work in a “pack and go” environment (I have to operate independent of the network from home in the evenings to keep up with the scheduling demands). if you are part of a company (or know of one)  that can bill out drafting time on a consultant basis, I would be grateful (and relieved) to hear from you. Solidworks is a marvelous tool, but I can’t make it work as a one man show with the work load we have (I’m turning away work because I know I don’t have the manpower to support the tasks)

I don’t need a “superstar”, just someone  (or a group of someones) that can bang out clean, complete, and accurate drawings in a short time frame that any shop can interpret and fabricate from (no fancy ANSII or Mil standard stuff is necessary).

E-mail me at Rtrent@electro-optical.com

Thank you for considering this offer (plea).

Randy Trent

Engineering Manager

Electro Optical Ind.

Santa Barbara. Ca

SolidProfessor has donated a 6 month membership as a give away for this weeks meeting.

SolidProfessor, a SolidWorks Solution Partner focused on delivering the very best self?paced
SolidWorks learning and productivity resources.

Click on the link below for more information NewsletterToUserGroups

Upcoming SolidWorks Intermediate Design Class @ ATEP.

This is a non-credit workshop style course offered in an accelerated, condensed format that is perfect for working professionals looking to enhance existing knowledge in SolidWorks 2011/12.

Students enrolling in this Intermediate Class should have basic knowledge of SoldWorks.

SUBJECTS COVERED

• Intermediate 3D Modeling Techniques
• Intro to Surface Modeling
• Patterns and Arrays
• Sheet Metal Design
• Weldments
• Mold Tools

Class meets Tuesday evenings for eight weeks,  6:00 PM to 9:00 PM, beginning Tuesday, September 20, 2011.

http://www.atepcact.com/content/solidworks-intermediate-design-september-2011-0

Pamela L. Prince
Economic & Workforce Development
CACT – Center for Applied Competitive Technologies
EDCC -  Environmental Design & Compliance Center
IVC / ATEP  Advanced Technology & Education Park

15445 Lansdowne Road, Tustin, CA  92782
Tel: 949.282.2718  |  949.258.8081

pprince@atep.us

www.atep.us

We recently updated the site and added some new features.  Enjoy

Please see letter below:

My name is Adrian Erb. I am the department head for drafting and design programs at Long Beach City College located in Long Beach California. We have a class scheduled to start next week featuring SolidWorks. It is entry level. Class begins on August 16th. It meets twice a week each session is 3 hours on Tuesday and Thursdays at 12:30 to 3:30.  We may be able to move it back and give it a late start since we do not have an instructor. At this time the class is a go – there are more than the minimum number of students to run the class. Position requires at least a two year degree with 6 years experience in drafting, design or engineering- we do have an equivalency that lowers requirements to some extent if necessary. Previous teaching experience is preferred but not required. A candidates first step would be to get on the Long Beach City College website and fill out an application for the “drafting pool” at the Human Resources site. If you have any further questions my cell is 949 422 6377.

aerb@lbcc.edu

Please let me know via email if you know of anyone who plans to go ahead with an application; I would like to be able to follow the app through the system.

Click Here for the link

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One of our members sent me this today.

” This rendered jpeg of our recent project which is rendered 10000×10000 pixels (Amazing resolution!, try to go 100%).

It took  Corei 7 @ 3.4 GHz with Quadro FX 4600 more than 8 hours to finish.”

Alfred Bauzon
Abauzon.43dcad @ gmx.com

Wow…. nice work

Our next meeting will be:

Thursday, July 21  2011 – Time:  6:30 – 9:00 pm

Presentations:

1. Photoview 360

Phillip Murg
TMT Observatory Corp.
Solid Model Database Administrator
http://www.tmt.org/

2.  Flow Simulation and Thermal simulation of an electronic enclosure

Anthony Willer | Applications Engineer | GoEngineer

3194 Airport Loop, Bldg E | Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Office: 714-438-1400 x2104 | Cell: 714-318-7329  | Fax: 714-438-1401
Tech Support: 1-888-559-6167 | support@goengineer.com

Location:

Our next meeting will be July 21,

Presentations are still pending, stay tuned!

Hi ,

I am contacting you to see if you have any high end SolidWorks users in your user group that would like to attend a Beta 2012 on-premise testing program that will be held in our NEW SolidWorks facility in Woodland Hills, CA.

The on-premise program will be held on:      August 22nd to 26th

Here is the invitation that has been sent out already to SolidWorks customers in your area:

SolidWorks 2012 Beta On-Premise Testing

Dear Valued SolidWorks Beta Tester,
The SolidWorks Beta Team invites you to our office to participate in testing SolidWorks 2012 Beta. Testing with your data and unique knowledge of your design process and workflow will help identify potentially critical problems that can be addressed before launch. This is a great opportunity to meet your fellow SolidWorks professionals and to work closely with key SolidWorks Research and Development personnel in a small group environment.

In addition, you’ll get an early opportunity to test and provide feedback on some of the major enhancements of SolidWorks 2012:
•    A new Costing tool that enables you to quickly calculate the cost of your design
•    A new Feature Freeze bar in the FeatureManager design tree to improve performance of part editing
•    A new Large Design Review that improves review of extremely large assemblies
•    Numerous drawing productivity enhancements including Magnetic Lines for balloon alignment
•    And many more!
What You Need to Know and Prepare
•    Each session lasts one week—you can attend for the entire week or less
•    DS SolidWorks Corporation will provide lodging, meals and hardware
•    Please bring a copy of your test models that best represent your production designs and workflow
•    Below is the DS SolidWorks office and dates where the SolidWorks 2012 testing will take place:
Dassault Systemes of America
6320 Canoga Avenue 3rd floor Trillium East Tower Building
Woodland Hills CA 91367-2526    August 22nd – 26th
How To Participate

Space is very limited.  Please reply as soon as possible and provide the information below to take advantage of this unique opportunity:
•    Dates you would like to attend
•    Lodging required [Yes or No]
•    Full name
•    Company and Address
•    Preferred email address
•    Phone number
Regards,
The SolidWorks Beta Team

We are looking to fill the training room in Woodland Hills for this event.

If you have any customer that would like to attend this event, please have them contact me direct  terence.mccabe@3ds.com

Seats are limited so please let me know as soon as possible

Kind Regards,

Terry McCabe

I am new to Saddleback College and will be offering Solidworks classes here at the Mission Viejo Campus. This summer there is a beginning Solidworks class that starts June 20th from 4-7 pm Monday thru Thursday. In the fall There will also be a beginning class as well as a GD&T class using solidworks. Next spring I will be offering an advanced class. We will be using 2011 this summer.Please do check out the classes at Saddleback and you have till May 23rd to sign up for the summer class.

Glen Stevenson, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Drafting CAD, Saddleback College, gstevenson3@saddleback.edu

Check out the new classes at ATEP

http://www.atepcact.com/