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One of our goals for last year’s PLM World Conference was to establish
a Focus Group to specifically address 3D Dimensional Management issues.
Two essential ingredients for insuring success in any venture of this
nature are great leadership and great support. Our 3D Dimensional Management
Focus Group has been very fortunate to secure both these entities. Norm
Crawford, from Geometric Solutions, volunteered his services to lead
the group. Norm is an energetic proponent of 3D annotation and has generously
shared his knowledge and experience with the PLM user community at past
conferences. Debbie Peecher and Jonathon Gray, our UGS representatives,
have also actively committed their services to help move us forward and
offer great developer support.
The group held their first virtual meeting this last October 5. The
meeting included all those attendees who had expressed an interest in
being involved by sending their contact information to Norm. For those
of you who are interested in joining the next virtual meeting, please
send your email address to: ncrawford@GeometricSolutions.net. You will
be added to the mailing list and notified of the meeting details, tentatively
scheduled for mid-January 2007. We had a great discussion in October
about the differences between the Embedded GD & T (SmarTOL) and the
new PMI. Debbie also demonstrated more of the 3D GD & T capabilities
in NX4, answering a lot of ‘how-to’ questions. The ‘virtual
meeting’ format worked well and everyone who attended got a lot
out of it. Debbie and Jonathon have both been great examples of the phenomenal
commitment by the UGS software development team to implement advanced
GD & T capabilities in the annotation package. Other members of the
development team, too numerous to list here, have been instrumental in
shaping this tool.
One of the primary objectives of our technical committee is to help
the User optimize use of the product and to help UGS provide the most
efficient and effective tool. To accomplish this, we need to hear from
the user. The PLM World Conference is a great place to get everyone together.
We had some outstanding presentations last year that generated some great
dialogue and valuable technical exchanges for both users and developers.
Please consider making a presentation at next year’s conference
coming up in April 2007. Abstract submission deadline is December 15.
Some Drafting and Dimensional Management topics that have generated a
lot of interest include:
- Best Practices/experiences for checking 3D models and associated
2D drawings
- Application of 3D annotation and associated GD & T capabilities
- General drafting best practices
- Setting up policies and procedures to incorporate annotation best
practices
If you have experience in any of these areas or have other topics of
interest, we hope to hear about them as you share your successes with
the rest of the user community at next year’s conference.
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