December 12/05 meeting highlight:

SOAP member had a discussion and vote on Paragraph 5 of 

SOAP Membership website.

6 members voted to retain the wording as of Paragraph 5, 4 members voted for, every paid member be entitled to particpate

in the NFR software draw. 3 members abstained from voting. Outcome: No change to Paragraph 5 wording.

David Estabrooks demonstrated and explained position, representation, adaptation and constraining of parts. 

Keep in mind to document your changes and ideas for future use and for others who may have to continue with your unfinished work.

David also demonstrated the creation of a part, explaining the difference between Sheet metal and regular part, 

outlined the individual

preference to constraint the first sketch to the point of Origin. Further explanation was given between driven- and ordinary dimension.

Main Door Prize:

NFR Inventor 10 Pro Series Software won by Lester Martin.

Other prizes: Autodesk Inventor 10 Series Hands-on Test Drive

Other Door Prizes provided by Cadopolis:

1) QuickText from S9design.com won by Andrew Schofield

2) ETEcad File Manager won by Mehdi Azadegan.

Other prizes: Playing Cards.               

November 14/05 meeting highlight:

Rose Francella and John Pearson of designfusion hosted the meeting with a demonstration of Solid Edge. 

John made the presentation outlining the capabilities to utilize AutoCAD data to create Solid Edge 2D and 3D components.

 Rose also distribute to all attendance: Pen, Mouse Pad, Solid Edge promotion literature

Door Prize provided by designfusion:

32 MB USB Flash Memory and $250.00 certificate for Solid Edge Training at designfusion won by Harold Scott.

Other Door Prizes provided by Cadopolis:

Light up Yo-Yo

October 11/05 meeting highlight:

Paul Nuyens demonstrated and explained Inventor Vault and

 Productstream.

Even as a one person operation, you should use the Vault. 

Vault simplifies searching, organizing your parts/assembly and related document.

Paul also answered our question pertaining to the Inventor Vault. 

Paul also demonstrated Tips and Tricks of Inventor 10.

Main Door Prize:

NFR Inventor 10 Pro Series Software won by Jefferson Doud.

Other Door Prizes provided by Cadopolis:

3 Base Ball Caps

  Revised:  March 21, 2007

September 12/05 meeting highlight:

 David demonstrated and explained the function of ROMA StingerII which is a 3D Portable Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM).

This session gave us a great opportunity to observe a reverse engineering method.

Door Prizes provided by Cadopolis:

Architectural Details won by Andrew Schofield.

S9 Design.com Quick Text won by George Brown

AutoCAD to PDF & DWF Batch conversion won by Greg Beemer

Architect 2000 or LT Architect won by Harold Scott

June 13/05 meeting highlight: 

Paul Nuyens of Autodesk demonstrated Inventor 10 and Autodesk Vault.

He made an excellent presentation to learn about 3D modeling,

and any one who missed the meeting, it's your loss.

Door Prize:

NFR Autodesk Inventor 9 Series Software won by Dennis Lang.

May 09/05 meeting highlight: 

Wolfe showed an example of Surface Modeling of a Car Body.

Original Design and Instruction by J. D. Mather of 

Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Wolfe tackled the May 05 Challenge from Peer Hoffmann.

David demonstrated about preparing to derive a part.

updating parts which were created from the derived part.

 Bring your Inventor challenge/question to the meeting.

Door Prize:

NFR AutoCAD 2006 Software won by Harold Scott.

Other Door Prizes draw donated by CADAPOLIS.COM:

1) CompugraphX-Hatch Pattern for AutoCAD won by Andrew Schofield

2) SlingShot Max for AutoCAD LT. won by Greg Beemer.               

April 11/05 meeting highlight: 

David demonstrated with Inventor9 creation of IPart, extracting IFeature, inserting IFeature

Wolfe demonstrated the April 05 challenge from Peer Hoffmann.

David outlined another way to insert holes utilizing a line. 

Door Prizes draw donated by CADAPOLIS.COM:

ETBX Engineering Toolbox won by George Brown.

CADAPOLIS Cap and Pens won by various members.

March 14/05 meeting highlight 

David demonstrated with Inventor9 the flexibility of a 3D path

utilizing Sean Dotson Tutorial Introduction to 3D Sketches.

David also demonstrated with Inventor9 IFeature, 

utilizing Sean Dotson Tutorial Introduction to IParts.

Autodesk NFR Inventor 9 Series Software won by David Bender.

Door Prizes draw donated by CADAPOLIS.COM:

AutoCAD Quick Text by S9design.com won by Dennis Lang.

Engineering Software, Power and Propulsion Systems Analysis 

won by David Bender