Previous Meeting Announcements

2006

December 5th, 2006 OKC meeting

Well it is time again for a meeting of the minds! The Oklahoma Pro/ENGINEER User Association event runs on 12/5 from 6:30PM - 8:30PM. For location details, please click on locations.

Do not miss the chance to see the latest software enhancements and offerings from PTC and talk with one of the leading PTC experts. Nelson Caperton will be presenting the wide array of topics listed below.

MathCAD and its integration with Pro/ENGINEER. Learn how MathCAD captures your intellectual properties and have it drive Pro/ENGINEER.

ITEDO enpowers the link between CAD and Technical Illustration to further optimize your technical publication process.

Wildfire 3.0 Top 5 Enhancements Deep Dive.
Come join us for Pro/PIZZA and a Pro/ENGINEER and bring your questions. If you have any topics you would like to see, then let us know ahead of time through www.opeua.com or reply to this email. Please sign up through the www.ptcuser.org website for accurate drinks and nibbles.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you there.

October 10, 2006, Tulsa Meeting

PTC is sending Nelson Caperton to show us some new Large Assembly Management functionality in WildFire 3, and the integration of MathCAD.

Also, The Best of the Conferences - Tips and Tricks and as always Pro/PIZZA and prizes from PTC/USER!
Please sign up here :
http://members.ptcuser.org/eman/ShowEvent.phx?eid=eman.364

One more announcement, Scott Williams has resigned as Vice-Chair leaving that position open now. If you are interested please call or email us. We will discuss this position at this meeting and at the next OKC meeting. We thank Scott for his service and hope to see him at the future meetings.

May 9, 2006, OKC Meeting (corrected)

Well it is time again for a meeting of the minds! Do not miss the chance to meet with your fellow Pro/ENGINEER users and talk with one of PTC's top minds, Nelson Caperton.

Learn about different Pro/ENGINEER surfacing techniques and modules in Nelson's "All Things Surfacing" presentation. Pete Pickett will be presenting tips and tricks that will help you optimize your everyday Pro/ENGINEER work.

Come join us for Pro/PIZZA and a Pro/ENGINEER and ring your questions. If you have any topics you would like to see, then let us know ahead of time through www.opeua.com or reply to this email. Make sure you sign up thru the WWW.PTCUSER.ORG website for accurate drinks and nibbles. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you there.

March 2, 2006, Tulsa Meeting

Come join us for Pro/PIZZA and a Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire III demonstration.

Nelson Caperton from PTC will be joining us to show the latest in Wildfire 3, due to release this spring. Bring your questions and if you have any topics you would like to see then let us know ahead of time thru www.opeua.com

2005

Aug. 18th 2005, Oklahoma City

On July 21, we had a really informative meeting with the new features of Intralink 8 and a preview of Wildfire III by Nelson Caperton of PTC that we have decided to invite him back for the Oklahoma City Meeting at the OSU/OKC campus. If you are interested in seeing a PLM suite for Pro/ENGINEER or planning on migrating to Intralink 8 this meeting is a must. Then Nelson will give us a preview of Wildfire III and answered any questions.

Also at the Tulsa meeting, we have elected Alan Young of Sequoia Etc. as the Co-Chair and he will now be managing Oklahoma City and its surrounding areas. Pete Pickett will take over the Tulsa meetings and Brad Beall will be new treasurer. Scott Williams will remain Vice-Chair out of Oklahoma City.

A special thanks goes out to Karli Newton for being a really great treasurer and to Brad Beall for lighting the wild fire under the OPEUA organization as Chair and Co-chair.

Register for the OKC meeting through the PTC/USER web site. We look forward to seeing you there. We will have Pizza compliments of PTC and Sequoia, conference goodies from PTC/USER, and Intralink 8 T-shirts from PTC.

July 21st, Tulsa Meeting

just wanted to remind you of our next meeting Thursday, July 21, 2005 at TCC NE campus.

In order to order the right amount of food, we ask that you register for the meeting on PTC/USER web site. We have a link on the www.opeua.com web site for your convenience.

Agenda:

6:15 - 6:30pm Arrival and Food

6:30 - 6-45pm Officer elections for Tulsa (Chairman and Secretary) and OPEUA

Treasurer

6:50 - 7:50pm Nelson Caperton with PTC will be presenting the Intralink 8

update.

7:50 - 8:20pm Open forum to share information, Wildfire 3, Intralink and other topics of interest.

Look forward to seeing you.

Brad Beall

Tulsa - Chairman

Oklahoma Pro/Engineers Users Association

http://www.opeua.com

March 24th 2005, Tulsa

In consideration that March 17 is St. Patrick's Day, we have decided to move the Tulsa meeting date to March 24 to avoid any conflicts.

Agenda

Matt Meadows with Sequoia will be presenting an Advanced Feature Presentation from 6:30 to 8:00 pm and a short Wildfire drawing presentation (Simplified representation changes and other points of interest) from 8:00 to 8:15. Remember that we do have computers on-hand for you to follow the presentation.

The advanced features would include boundary surfaces, advanced sweeps and blends, shells, and spinal bends.

Also, I want to thank everyone who attended the OKC meeting on February 1. The threat of inclement weather put a little damper on attendance but Dan Dial with Sequoia made a wonderful presentation on Design Animation and Mechanisms.

I look forward to seeing everyone again. Nominations for Tulsa Chair, Treasurer, and Secretary will be opened during this meeting and the OKC meeting in May. Elections will be held in Tulsa meeting in July.

Brad Beall

Announcement for Tuesday, February 1, 2005 Oklahoma City meeting

It is that time again, OKC winter meeting. The meeting will be at OSU in Oklahoma City. See LOCATIONS for directions.

Agenda:

6:15-6:30 Arrival

6:30-6:35 Introduction

6:35-7:30 Sequoia Etc. will be talking about how to use Design Animation and Mechanism.

7:30 Break

7:35-8:30 Clay Martin will be doing tips and tricks for Wildfire 2 and open the floor for Q&A. We already have some good questions. So add your own by submitting them early by email to opeua@cox.net or bring them!

Because we need a good head count for Pizza in advance with OSU food service, we ask that you register for this meeting through the PTC/USER web site linked here. Registration is not required for attendance, but it is a tremendous help.

Tulsa November Meeting: We had a great meeting with 30 attendees. We had a great question and answer session for Intralink and Mechanica. Thank you PTC and Sequoia for your continued support and Tulsa Community Collage for their assistance.

Our next Tulsa meeting is tentatively scheduled for March 17, 2005. Tentative agenda is a PTC presentation and an advanced geometry presentation.

2004

Announcement for Nov 9 Tulsa meeting

Just wanted to let everyone know that we are planning to have the next OPEUA Tulsa meeting on November 9.

Tentative Agenda Topics:

1. Mechanica - Stress Analysis

2. Rounds

3. Installation Intralink and current patches

Let us know if you have a particular topic of interest.

A quick recap of the September 9 meeting in OKC.

Greg Fallon demo'd Fluent's Flowizard, showing how easy it was to set up a simple CFD (Fluid Flow) analysis as a designer. At this point in time it is a stand alone program, importing STEP files, but hopes to be integrated within Pro/E by Q2 of next year. It sits on top of a standard full blown FLUENT license but will soon have the option to use their networked pool of analysis machines at Fluent's developers site, paying by the CPU hour that you use. It was a very instructive demo and Greg was happy to have been invited. Let us know if you want additional details.

Clay Martin generous enough to show us a few applications using Surfacing, principally Boundary Surfaces in Wildfire. He emphasized the Shift-key to select multiple surfaces and the CNTL-key to select second datum curve and again the use of the Shift-key to select the remaining curves.

Again, we want to thank Kristin DeRosa with PTC and Robert Smith with TriCADCAM for sponsoring the OKC meeting

Brad Beall

Oklahoma Pro/Engineers Users Association

http://www.opeua.com

Announcement for Oklahoma City, September 9th at 6:15pm

Hello everyone,

We are delighted to announce our next OKC meeting September 9th at 6:15pm at the OKC-OSU campus (see LOCATION link above)

Additional details will be emailed the week of August 23.

Greg Fallon from Fluent will be flying into OKC show Flo-Wizard. One of the issues he will be addressing is batch processing for overnight analysis.

Clay Martin will be doing a demo and will be open for questions. Please have your questions ready or submit them early by emailing us.

In additions, we will be taking nominations for OPEUA Secretary. The Secretary basic duties is to assist the Tulsa and/or OKC chairs prepare the meetings.

Because we need a good head count for Pizza 2 weeks in advance, OSU food service, we ask that you register for this meeting through the PTC-USER website linked from the www.OPEUA.com website. Registration is not required for attendance, but it is a tremendous help.

We look forward to seeing everyone again.

thanks,

Brad Beall

Chairman - Tulsa

Tulsa July 13th, Follow-up

Hello everyone

Another meeting is in the books.

We did a quick review of the PTCUser Conference and the basic updates to ProE Wildfire 2.0 and referencing PDMLink and Windchill in the overall integration of ProE data companywide.

Next, we elected Scott Williams, Principal Group as Vice-Chair by acclaimation. He successfully ran the OKC User Group as Chairman when fax was king and emails a pipedream. He is a significant addition to the User Group. We delayed nominations for Secretary until the OKC meeting.

Due to some technical difficulties, we were unable to link with Randy Snyder, TriCadCam for a Wildfire 2.0 presentation. However, Lee Goodwin was more than gracious in making the presentation on very short notice.

Lee Goodwin also made to ProMold presentation, which was well received among our users. We had a good discussion and interaction with Lee Goodwin. Thank you Lee.

We finished the meeting with a question and answer (any current complaints for PTC or Resellers). Robert Smith with TriCadCam fielded some questions and David Roe with PTC was nice enough to put himself on the hotseat. The only real complaint regarded Technical Assistance and the inability to understand the tech when they had an Indian accent. Pete Pickett recommended using the online, email inquires. The responses are usually quick and if verbal communication is warranted, it usually comes with an American accent.

Finally, I want to thank everyone for the accurate head-count before the meeting. We were able to purchase the appropriate amount of refreshments.

I look forward to seeing everyone in November for our next Tulsa meeting and hopefully some of you for the OKC meeting in September.

Brad Beall

Chairman - Tulsa

Last Meeting - Tulsa, July 13th, 6:15 pm

Hello everyone;

Our next Tulsa OPEUA meeting has been confirmed as July 13 at TCC Northeast Campus at 6:30. Set your calendars.

We should be reviewing ProMold and Wildfire 2 Tip/Tricks

We will also be electing Vice-Chair and Secretary positions.

We look forward to an exciting and useful presentation/workshop.

Sponsors:

PTC - Platinum Sponsor

TriCADCAM - Gold Sponsor

PtcUser - Silver Sponsor

Thanks,

Brad Beall

Oklahoma City, May 25th

We are scheduled for a 6:15pm meeting, Tuesday, May 25th at OSU-OKC. Pizza and pop will be provided, so bring your appetite. Neal Willison with OSU in OKC (1 mile north of I40 and I44 interchange) has graciously allowed us the use of their facilities. For directions click the link http://www.ptcuser.org//rugs/opeua/location.htm#Oklahoma_City

Agenda:

Brian Nauyokas with PTC will be presenting Wildfire II enhancements as well as a short Sheetmetal and Surfacing in Wildfire presentation

Pete Pickett will be presenting Surfacing and Tips/Tricks in ProE 2001

For those attending the meeting from the Tulsa area, expect a 90 minute drive (posted speed limit) starting from downtown Tulsa, taking the I44 loop north around OKC.

I look forward to seeing everyone again.

thank you.

Brad Beall

Tulsa, April 1st

See Location link above to reach the TCC campus.

We are putting the final details together on the April 1 meeting.

Sequoia will again be joining us and making a presentation on the NCPostProcessor function. Dan Dial — Chief Solutions Architect, Matt Meadows — Solutions Architect, George Carpenter - Solutions Coordinator, and T.J. Dial - Chief Solutions Coordinator will be presenting and assisting in the presentation.

We will again look forward to being joined by Engineering and ProE students at TCC, NE Campus.

The meeting should be highly informatative if you are trying to create machine-tool paths using ProE models.

The meeting agenda will be

6:00-6:15 Arrival

6:15-6:30 Introductions and Refreshments

6:30-9:00 Sequoia's presentation

GPost Programming Basics

1. How to dissect a Common CL (Cutter location) Command

2. How to construct a basic FIL (Factory Interface Language) file macro

3. How to manipulate IO (file management) in FIL

4. Where is GPost Help?

5. How to Troubleshoot Code (debugging)

New and Improved Manufacturing Functionality!

1. Wildfire

2. Wildfire 2.0

B&W Software Extensions for Pro/ENGINEER

1. Expert Framework Extension (for frame weldments)

2. Progressive Die Extension (Strip Layout)

3. Expert Mold Base Extension

We look forward to seeing everyone.

Brad Beall

Oklahoma Pro/Engineers Users Association

http://www.opeua.com

Oklahoma City, March 10th, 2004 Follow-Up

Hello everyone;

We had a wonderful meeting on March 10 in OKC. Although attendance was a
little low at 13 because the meeting was rescheduled with short notice, we were
pleased to be joined by three new companies in OKC area.

Randy Snyder with TriCAD/CAM made a comprehensive internet presentation of the
enhancements of Wildfire 2, due for release in mid-April. The new Patterning,
Feature Grouping, and Assembly functions were particulary interesting and
should result in some significant time savings.

Next, Pete Pickett made a tips/tricks presentation in ProE 2001 using little-
used keys and functions found in ProE that can provide real time-savings as
well.

I want to give special thanks to the two presenters as well as Robert Smith
with TriCAD/CAM for their assistance to making the OKC meeting a reality. We
also appreciate David Roe with PTC in Dallas attending the meeting with only a
few hours notice.

We look forward to another meeting in OKC around the end of May. Particular
interest has been shown about Sheetmetal and we would like to solicite ProE
users in OKC about other topics of interest.

Brad Beall - Chairman
OPEUA - Oklahoma ProE Users Association

Oklahoma City, March 10th

Hello everyone;

We are looking forward to an exciting meeting in OKC, Wednesday, March 10, 6:15pm at the Hilton Garden Inn near the Will Rogers Airport. We will be doing a tips/tricks presentation with Pete Pickett from Mercury Marine and Clay Martin with Clay Martin Consulting making presentations. The meeting will be sponsored by Robert Smith with TriCAD. Food and drink will be provided.

We received significant support from the OKC area during the last meeting in Tulsa, November 4 and wanted to make meetings more convenient for the OKC base. Hopefully, this meeting will encourage their involvement with OPEUA.

Brad Beall - Chairman
OPEUA - Oklahoma ProE Users Association

2003

November 4th, 2003 Follow-Up

It was great to see everyone again.

We (OPEUA) had a wonderful meeting last Tuesday in Tulsa. We officially had 40 attendees although a few extra people joined us briefly to learn more about us. Total attendees was around 45 from 18 companies. We had 6 new companies to join us and had visitors from as far away as Duncan (near Lawton), Oklahoma City, and Springdale Arkansas.

Sequoia Etc. was generous enough their time to present both the Basic and Advanced Wildfire "Hands-on" workshop. Ptc also joined us and sponsored the workshop. We had people working on computers past 8:30 again, which is fantastic.

Special thanks to Sequoia Etc.
   Dan Dial - Chief Solutions Architect - Presented the Basic Workshop
   Matt Meadows - Solutions Architect - Presented the Advanced Workshop
   George Carpenter - Solutions Coordinator

Special thanks to PTC
Kristin DeRosa flew in from San Francisco
Mike Thornberry drove up from Dallas
to make themselves available to us.

We also want to thank two representatives from TCC that joined us
Bruce Merrill (Teaches Engineering and ProE)
Andrew Wilson (IT department) - Helps keep the computers running.
I do hope that everyone enjoyed themselves including the refreshments.

We are thinking of doing a Tips/Tricks presentation in Oklahoma City in February and planning a ProNC Processing presentation in Tulsa in April. If anybody has any sister companies in Oklahoma City that you feel would be interested in the meeting in February, please let me know.

One final note, WWW.OPEUA.COM is now registered and points to this address.

Have a great day and thank you.

Brad Beall
Chairman OPEUA- Okla. ProE Users Assoc.
918-834-4611 x322

July 17th Meeting Follow-Up

I want to thank everyone for a great meeting. It was a pleasure to see old and new faces alike. We had 47 attendees of which 38 were from 14 companies and 9 students.

I want to thank Nelson Caperton with PTC for traveling from Dallas to start us off with a presentation of Wildfire I also want to thank Clay Martin with MK Technologies for traveling from Oklahoma city to wrap up with a Sheetmetal presentation. Finally, I want to thank Roger Beall with The Crosby Group for assisting people with individual questions on surfaces and advanced features.

Thanks to the support of PTC, MK Technologies, and PtcUser, we were able to have a wonderful meeting.

I want to welcome aboard our new leadership group:

Kass Wise from Oklahoma Fixture Company - Secretary
Karli Newton from Nordam - Treasurer
Pete Pickett from Mercury Marine - Vice-Chair

Brad Beall, Chairman

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