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Gary Lamit, a CAD instructor at DeAnza College,
recently sent me this email.
They will be forming separate users groups under the
banner:
They would schedule each group once a year usually at the end of the term - finals night, therefore gathering about 90 students and hopefully 30-50 from local companies. Evening meetings would double the attendance witnessed at other users groups. Any existing users groups would be invited and supported and combined if requested.
Tentative schedule:
He hopes to stay independent and open to ALL contributors. They will not run the group as an extension of De Anza, but as a member of the CAD community for the particular piece of software. Open to all and supporting all. If you are interested in attending a future meeting, sponsoring a meeting, or presenting at a meeting, contact Gary Lamit at deanza@cadresources.com. |
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I didn't realize it but I rely heavily on the 'Close Loop'
menu opton in Inventor...this allows me to select
polylines in a sketch and close the profile and
troubleshoot my sketches pretty easily.
No such option in SolidWorks, but I can right click and select 'Select Chain' to pick the profile I want to extrude...this is pretty darn handy. |
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Finally, Inventor R11 allows users to dimension to the
center of a non-circular punch using the midpoint.
This has been a huge thorn in my side as I do a lot of
sheet metal design and most sheet metal houses set
their machines to align their punches using the
center point of the punch.
SolidWorks has been able to do this for awhile now. My workaround has been to bring my designs into AutoCAD where I can place dimensions as I darn well please...and it's a lot easier and faster to do it in AutoCAD, I might add. Now, if only I could add a center line to the same feature and I would be a very happy camper indeed. Until I can get all my sheet metal dimensioning done properly in Inventor, I will continue to import over to AutoCAD (sigh). |
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