ACE Overview

The Arizona CATIA Exchange (ACE) is a group of CATIA users from the greater Phoenix and Tucson areas of Arizona. They have a mix of CATIA usage like most any other area where some are still V4 users while others have either migrated from V4 to V5 or started their CATIA experience with V5. They try to meet three or four times a year alternating their meeting locations between Phoenix/Scottsdale and Tucson. The meetings are generally evening meetings (after business hours) with one or two presentations and then discussions between users. ACE gets excellent support from IBM, IBM Business partners, Dassault Systemes (DS) and DS CAA partners.

Their last meeting was in January 2004 where Cadpo demonstrated their 'i-get-it' product.  They expect to meet again in May after the COE 2004 Conference & TechniFair hoping attendees will bring back useful information to our group.

Contacts:

Phoenix area:
Larry Gauthier
General Dynamics C4 Systems
Larry.Gauthier@gdds.com

Tucson area:
Colleen Kennedy
Krebs Engineers
ckennedy@krebs.com

GLACOE Meeting

Opening GLACOe remarks and issues were started at 8:00 by Bob MacKool,GLACOe. At 8:20 there was a college CATIA V5 Demo by Robert (Ken) Kalair - Baker College. Dave Harnadek, from Rand then gave a V5 and Add-in demo. At 10:00 a 45 minute presentation about DELMIA was given by Roy Smolky, DELMIA. A 20 minute DCX Update and FORD update was presented by Dave Pallister, DCX and Tyge Cawthon, Ford. The meeting ended with a 15 minute Round Table and Closing of GLACOe issues and review-question and answer for Dassault Reps, IBM Reps, DCX team, Ford Team, Business Partner reps.

For more information on acting locally, see http://www.coe.org/resources/other.cfm and get involved.

New COE Regional User Group (RUG) in Washington State

A new COE Regional User Group (RUG) has been formed in Washington State and will hold is first official meeting in early April. The new RUG name is COPS (CATIA Operator's of Puget Sound). COPS has a web site in place which was developed by Troy Niehaus from RAND Worldwide at http://www.engineering.com/content/COPS/. The web site will be updated periodically with meeting information as well as other related items.

Should you have any questions about this new RUG, please don't hesitate to email michael.p.brown@boeing.com!