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Join us for the Annual TCPUG Spring Conference on May 8!

The annual TCPUG Spring Conference will be May 8th from 8 AM - 5 PM at the Earl Brown Heritage Center in Brooklyn Center, MN.

The Conference is free for TCPUG Members, but conference registration is required.

If you are a TCPUG member and haven't already registered for the meeting Click Here to register for the conference.

Not already a member? Join Here - Registration is free and it plugs you in to one of the largest Pro/ENGINEER user communities in North America. Once a member you can register for the May 8th meeting.

Registration before 12:00 noon on Monday, May 5th guarantees your free lunch!

TCPUG will only guarantee lunch for the people who pre-register for the conference. Pre-Registraion will close at 12:00 p.m. on Monday, May 5th. If you plan to attend the meeting and would like to eat lunch make a point to register before noon on Monday! If you haven't already signed up for the Spring Conference what are you waiting for? Click Here

Network, have fun, and see presentations and demonstrations!
Presentation & Demonstration Topics:

• Advanced rendering using Pro/RENDER and Photoshop
• Pro/ENGINEER and PTC Product Update
• Wildfire 4.0 Demonstration
• Windchill 9.0 Demonstration
• Take the anxiety out of your PDMLink Implementation
• "Blue Collar" Tips and Techniques
• Patterning & Family Tables
• The current state of rapid prototyping technology
• Mechanisms and Animation
• Routed Systems Designer Demonstration
• Import Data Doctor Tool in Wildfire 4.0
• Surfacing Techniques

List of Presentations (subject to change):

8:30 a.m.	Photorender	Advanced rendering using Prorender and Photoshop.Using alpha channels in Pro/E Multi pass rendering. Realistic reflections Choosing color. HSL instead of RGB. Faking Glass Masks Backgrounds. Composing it all in Photoshop. By Rob Halverson.
9:20	Wildfire 4.0 Demonstration	Todd Kraft from PTC will do a live demonstration of new tools and techniques in the latest release of Pro/ENGINEER
9:20	Windchill 9.0 Demonstration	Dawn Frett from PTC will show users tools in the 9.0 release of PTC's Windchill product line
10:10	Stump the Chumps!	Todd Kraft (PTC), Mark Ganzer (Lockheed Martin) and Alan Caldwell (EAC) will attempt to answer all Pro/E questions from the audience. You can try to "stump the chumps".
10:10	Turn High Anxiety about your PDMLink Implementation into Cool Confidence	Implementing Windchill PDMLink or Pro/INTRALINK can be challenging on many fronts, from system configuration to end user acceptance. Data migration is one of largest pain points for any implementation. See case studies showing how specific customer problems have been addressed as well as live demonstrations of Fishbowl’s standard Windchill products and a sampling of custom applications. By Rick Passolt.
11:00	"Blue Collar" Tips and Techniques	A tips and techniques seminar aimed to improve the day-to-day design tasks in Pro/ENGINEER. Presented by Craig Zelasko.
11:00	Stupid Pro/E Tricks!	With apologies to David Letterman for the title, this will be a series of the latest tips & techniques Mark Ganzer has run into at Lockheed Martin.
11:40	Lunch
12:30 p.m.	PTC PTC Corporate Update & Wildfire 4.0	Michael Campbell of PTC
2:10	Patterning and Family Tables	This presentation will cover the different pattern types available, techniques for implementing them, and resolving common errors. Using a family table to save valuable time and provide an active link between similar parts. This presentation will also cover creating and manipulating family tables. By Stefan Freeman.
2:10	RSD, Pro/CABLE	By Joel Cartwright
3:00	Rapid Prototyping	Fred Fisher from Stratays will discuss the state of the rapid prototyping industry. Check in to see what is coming next.
3:00	Import Data Doctor WF 4.0	By Matt Kloos
3:50	A-Class Surfacing with Wildfire 4.0	Bart Brejcha is a renowned surfacing expert. This time Bart's Surfacing expertise will be applied to the brand new version of Pro/Engineer.
3:50	Mechanism	A basic overview of Mechanism using Wildfire 2.0. The presentation will briefly explain degrees of freedom, and then go through an example showing how to properly apply the Mechanism constraints. Limiting motion will be discussed as well as creating views of different positions for use in drawings. By Chris McKellips.

 

Join us for the TCPUG Spring Conference!

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2008 TCPUG Spring Conference

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WHEN:  Thursday, May 8, 2008, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

WHERE: Earle Brown Heritage Center, 6155 Earle Brown Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55430

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WHO: Open to all Pro/Engineer users. Pre-registration is required.

WHAT IS IT? An opportunity to improve your Pro/E skills. You'll attend user presentations, vendor presentations. You'll have the opportunity to network with other local Pro/E gurus.

 

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