Latest Happenings in Wisconsin

CATIA Operators of Wisconsin (COW) held nominations for officers at its last meeting. Sole nominees for President and Membership Chair were Brian Taylor of Oshkosh Truck and Jim Tilidetzke of P&H Mining Equipment. Some of the highlight presentations were:

• Interactively Create a V5 Catalog with Part Family Component by John B Cearns
• SMARTEAM Update by Jagan S. Nagi, IBM
• ENOVIA Portal and 3D Com by Lonel Grecescu, Matra
• Interfacing with Other CAD Systems Using V5 by Oshkosh Truck
• CATIA V5 XMI Configuration by MSC
• V5 at Metso Paper by Paul Thoppil
• V5 Working Methods - An Open Discussion

COW shirts are now available! Visit the COW website, www.cowrug.com and click on the apparel link. Download and complete the form.

Next COW meeting is scheduled for June at the Fox Valley Technical College. Go to the COW Web site for the latest information: www.cowrug.org.

Arizona Regional Users Group

The next meeting of the Arizona Regional Users Group will be:

TACO

Mark your calendars for TACO's next meeting, May 24, at the Workforce Development Center, located at Thomas Nelson Community College. The meeting will be held from 12-4 p.m., with a luncheon, demonstration of Q-Checker from TransCAT, and a hands-on session of V5.

See you there!

North Texas CATIA Regional Users Group Report
By Jim Johnson

The North Texas CATIA RUG just hosted their most recent meeting May 3, 2002. The meeting was a day-long event featuring various presentations along with some business items and an open forum session. One key business item was a survey to determine the various interests of the RUG attendees for planning on future RUG meetings. V4 to V5 migration is a popular topic and the RUG would like to understand the current state of participating companies as well as a general time line for future V5 implementation in order to provide proper presentation material at the right time. A great deal of planning went into the May 3 RUG meeting and it was a very informative and useful event.

The agenda included the following topics:

• Digital Inspection presented by Shawn Hamell from Faro
• CATCMM presented by Chris Cripps from MSC Software
• V4 2 V5 Interoperability presented by Lee Harmon from IBM
• V5 CAT Settings presented by Luis Tovar from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
• DELMIA Process Engineer presented by Deidra Donald from DELMIA
• Open Forum
• Business Items
  • Mission Statement
  • Code of Conduct
  • Member Survey