D.R.A.W. Users Group

Dedicated Registered AutoCAD Workers
Users Group - Fort Wayne, IN area

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December

December's at the Industrial Technologies class room included topics on part IV of Beginning Inventor, sweeps and lofts. Allen Gager along with Chad and John of Industrial Technologies shared on their experiences at Autodesk University.

November

November's meeting was again held at the Industrial Technologies class room. Topics were a continuation of Palettes in AutoCAD 2006/2007 and Beginning Inventor.

October

October's meeting was held at Industrial Technologies classroom and was focused on a single topic. This was the second session in the introduction to Inventor. There were new things fore each of us. Troy showed us how to miter corners in the sheet metal portion, Allen showed how the positive direction of workplanes were colored differently than the negative, and many more. Thank you to IT for the pizza and drinks.

September

Thank you to Homestead High School for allowing us to meet in your CAD Lab. Topics for the night were an introduction to the new AMUG that will co-exist with DRAW to meet the needs or our users. We also looked at an introduction to palettes in AutoCAD. That may well be the easiest way to customize AutoCAD yet! In Inventor we looked at some basic skills in creating parts and a quick look at using surfaces to control constraints of gears. Way cool Allen. Thanks.

August

We had a look at Inventor's Frame Generator and how it can be used to create the main framework of machines. Thanks Ed. On the AutoCAD side of things we took a look at some of the BLOGS available via the Autodesk web site. We also took a look at the JOIN command. This is a nifty little tool that can same a lot of step if you need to make a single entity out of several collinear lines or concentric arcs with equal radii.

July

We took the month off due to the number of persons away from town.

June

A look at the new features in Inventor 11 (part 2) and AutoCAD 2007 (part 2). We also covered a crash course in getting your system ready for Inventor R11 and installing Inventor R11. There are many "gotchas" that can creep up, so the night was a great one for those getting ready for the install. We looked at part libraries, content center, and project files.

May

A look at the new features in Inventor 11 (part 1) and AutoCAD 2007 (part 1). Allen Gager will also be presenting a lesson on shared sketches in Inventor.

April

An easy night out for members at Bandidos while the dealers are in class for the new releases. Dinner was good and there was a lot of informal discussions solving a number of issues for users.

March

Dennis Jeffrey offered to host the March meeting at his new Mexican eatery on the south side of Fort Wayne called Larados. The meal was quite good. Thank you Dennis.

February

Industrial Technologies played host for this meeting. Topics were new Baby Steps topic by Allen Gager and a look at some items in AutoCAD 2006 in review.

January

Our first DRAW meeting of 2006 was held at Industrial Technologies. Thanks for the pizza and drinks guys. We looked at some of the Inventor modeling commands that are not used as often as extrude and sweep. We looked at Ribs, Splits, and Face Drafts.

We also went over some of the highlights and shared hot tips that were discovered at Autodesk University 2005. Cool stuff there!

We gave away lots of free stuff from CADOPOLIS.com, Autodesk, and things Byron picked up at Autodesk University.

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