SEATTLE AREA 
SolidWorks 
POWER USERS GROUP

Welcome to SASPUG

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Your new President of SASPUG is Tony Valenzuela! The future is very bright for SASPUG! below please read about your new President . . .

Tony Valenzuela graduated from the University of Washington in 1992 with BS in Mechanical Engineering.
Working two summers as an intern at Boeing helped him get hired full time following graduation. He worked in the Commercial Renton Flight Deck group developing new LRU’s and revising secondary structures in the cockpit. He developed a new cockpit aisle stand and overhead drip shield for the 737 aircraft.
From Boeing he moved to Salem Oregon to work at Supra Products were he helped develop a new line of Industrial Access Control Products (see company portfolio). He managed development through conception, design, prototype, test and manufacturing rollout. Here he developed a comprehensive understanding of the development process and the knowledge to get things done. In addition to mechanical design Tony’s duties included program management, where he was responsible for product recurring costs and program schedules.
After three years away from home Tony and his wife decided to move back to Seattle. He returned to the Seattle area and began working for Lang Manufacturing. At Lang he developed Commercial Cooking Equipment and became a veteran of sheet metal design and control wiring. Again his responsibilities included program management, product recurring costs and program schedules.
Lured by stock options and the speculative technology euphoria, Tony went to work at Palm in Bellevue. He helped develop plastic cases for a canceled Palm device. When the bubble burst Tony found himself looking work and moved to Korry Electronic.
At Korry Tony developed Integrated Switch Panels for commercial and military vehicles. To state it simply, he made very robust and lighting exact, buttons that glow. (Like a car stereo but much more expensive.)

Celebrating our tenth year, we meet quarterly with some of the best mechanical designers of the Seattle Area. I hope you will join us to:

1. Learn more about SolidWorks and SolidWorks related products.
2. Better educate yourself on how SolidWorks can be used.
3. Network with your peers.
4. Share experiences and technical presentations that can help provide you and your company with valuable, real-world techniques, and methodologies.
5. Give away's, food, and refreshments usually provided for each meeting.

 



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An overview of the past meeting agenda: (April 18th, Location NSCC at room CC 2153)

5:30 Registration, Refreshments: Quizno's Sandwiches were provided by SolidWorks and the drinks were provided by Jeff Mirisola's Company, HySecurity Gate, Inc.
Daniel Nordeen, Started SEACUG a COSMOS Works user group, it will have its first meeting on May 12, 2006. 09:00 AM - 03:00 PM at the Hampton Inn.
Please check the SEACUG site and SolidWorks announcement for details.

6:00 Kaae Rillos, an accomplished speaker, spoke to us about Adobe Acrobat 3D, Kaae Rillos is the President of Rillos Engineering & XDT Software and has spoken to the Atlanta CATIA Operators Exchange, The North Texas CATIA Regional Users Group, The Puget Sound AutoCad Users Group. I hope you will take a look at his free online training that shows the power of design collaboration with the use of Adobe Acrobat 3D. His overview amazed me and proved that this tool is must for documenting design reviews. Kaae, continued to enlighten us on leveraging the power of 'policies.' His overview of the use of policies in the distribution of sensitive documents gave full control to the author of that document ==> if you distributed the pdf document by any means (snail mail, email . . . ) upon opening the document there must be an internet connection to verify permission. The ability to embed documents in the pdf and zoom to a problem area . . . 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' The collaborative tool of 'fdf' (that's right FDF) that allowed people to simultaneously review a pdf and compile the comments into one document got a lot of positive responses. The sorting, grouping, and hiding of comments and the easy conversion of other CAD files into a quickly usable PDF made this tool a must have.

7:00 Roger Fletcher-Garris a board member and a senior engineer from Heath Techna covered . . . "cut and fold" an interesting use of SolidWorks sheet metal creatively applying sheet metal to functions to parts that are not sheet metal.

8:00 Adam Smith, of Product Creations Studio, covered: HDRi (High Dynamic Range Imaging) and Mercator projection how it will be implemented in SolidWorks 2007. Photoworks really rocks in the hands of the right person . . . and soon it will be 'new, and improved!' In Adam's detailed overview of Photoworks he advised setting several parameters to optimize the rendering of parts modeled in SolidWorks. Photoworks is an exceptional program that with a few tweaks produced amazing results.

9:00 Open Discussion - Forum/Q&A; an opportunity to discuss problems, issues, get help in modeling, assemblies, etc., not discussed in the previous sessions. Bring your problem files on diskette or, even better, on your laptop. This is a good time to discuss enhancement requests.

9:30 Drawing/Wrap-Up/Meeting Adjournment

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Meeting Months defined: 3rd Tuesday of . . . Jan, April, July, October

An overview of the next meeting agenda: (July 18th, Location NSCC at room CC 2153 (Unconfirmed))

Next meeting food Piroshky ( (Roger Fletcher-Garris) (delivery by ?...))

Pleae note: Due to consistent traffic conditions I have pushed back the start time 1/2 hour!

6:00 Registration,Refreshments:Meet and greet. were provided by SolidWorks! and the drinks were provided by Jeff Mirisola's Company, HySecurity Gate, Inc.

6:30-

8:00-9:00 Adam Smith of Product Creation Studio will do SolidWorks 2007 What's New and Photoworks 2007.

Possible next speakers

Cliff Miller (Unconfirmed)
Adam Smith (Unconfirmed)
Jerry Winters (Unconfirmed)
MSC Software (Unconfirmed)
Wasay Noori (Unconfirmed)
Shounco (Unconfirmed)
Jenn James, Pacific Northwest Technical Supervisor (Unconfirmed)
Daniel Nordeen, Started COSMOS Works user group (Unconfirmed: I have not recieved a web address yet)