Forum’s Activity

The COE Forum has 19 Discussion Areas and 2184 registered users. A ‘help’ button provides information about use including how to sign up. The Table 1 itemizes the Discussion Areas and reports the total number of Threads to date.

Table 1 – Thread Count by Forum Discussion Area

Notes: * Cumulative from Forum’s inception through the month

The CATIA v5 continues to have a very high participation rate. This Discussion Area has had 3871 Threads since the start of the new Forum.

The counts in the Table are for Thread which are major topic areas. Within each Thread, there are messages related to the topic. Table 2 looks at the average and maximum number of messages per Thread for four active Discussion Areas. 

Table 2 – Average / Maximum Message Counts

In Table 2, CATIA V5 Programming has the largest maximum Message count while KBE (Knowledge Based Engineering) has the largest average Message count.

Figure 1 shows recent discussions in the area related to CATIA v5.

Figure 1: COE Forum Discussion Area - CATIA v5

Forum as Method

A “KBE Best Practices” document continues to be developed. At COE Atlanta, the team decided to coordinate this concurrent development activity using a web-based methodology. Since the Forum is available to COE members generally, and can be read by the public, a thread in the Forum  has been established for this coordination work. Details about the method can be found in the procedures document.

Forum’s FAQ

Status as of the COE FORUM FAQ as of May, 2006 can be seen in Figure 2. FAQ: V5 useful shortcuts (keyboard) was updated. 

Figure 2: COE Forum FAQ

When using the Forum’s ‘Search’ facility to search the entire FAQ, remember to set the Discussion Areas switch to ‘Select All’.