Wes Cobb returns with another guest blog!

WNC- ASHEVILLE SolidWorks USER GROUP

Meeting held January 8, 2009

As I am to be the “featured blogger” on Jeff Cox’s BLOG (http://wnc-swug.blogspot.com/) this week, I guess I’m going to go into much more detail of our meeting this past Thursday than I normally would if someone else had taken the notes!!

The meeting began as usual with general information concerning SW. About half of the group present is now on SW2009 (members present: 17 total w/ one VAR rep.). No problems were mentioned beyond those from our previous meeting. My grayed out “link to BOM” issue has been reported to SW and an SPR has been issued as of Fri., Jan 9th. We did intro’s all around and kicked off the technical portion of the meeting.

Rodney Hall was our presenter and did a great job giving us Administrative tips concerning hardware and software requirements, planning, support and maintenance, documentation and disaster recovery. While disaster recovery sounds pretty ominous, it doesn’t have to be if you are prepared with an Administrative image of SW. Rodney went on to show us how he has prepared his computers Administrative image to fully install SW with specific configurations for each workstation involved in a crisis and be up and running in a matter of minutes. Good stuff. Rodney has offered his PowerPoint presentation as a guide for any SWUG member wanting it. If you’re interested in this presentation and would like the PowerPoint please email me

We ended the meeting at 9:30 p.m.

Our next meeting is March 12th. The topic for that evening will be a report from SolidWorks World 2009 by Tom Wilson. Also, some tips and tricks from SW2009.

NEWS:
A new Modeling Contest kicked off at the January meeting and runs thru March 12th. The contest centers on a new logo for our group. The logo should be done in SW and will be judged on design and uniqueness. For some examples see below:



SW World happens February 8th thru 11th in Orlando Fl.

Our thanks go to the Lutheran Church of the Nativity for providing the meeting place.
Pizza and drinks were provided by SolidWorks / Tom Wilson (QMS).
Door prizes were provided by RAPID SHEETMETAL.

Our sponsor:

Rapid Sheet Metal makes prototype and short run sheet metal parts. They have donated some nice door prizes to be given out at our user group meeting.

WNC/ASHEVILLE SWUG MEETING THIS WEEK

Wes Cobb is our guest blogger today. Wes is the leader of the WNC/Asheville SWUG.

Our first meeting of the year is this coming Thursday, January 8th. This years’ “kickoff meeting” features Rodney Hall talking about SolidWorks Administration Tips and “Things your IT department SHOULD KNOW about SolidWorks” The information Rodney has for us should aid anyone involved with installing and setting up SW to run efficiently.

PROBLEM!!
I installed SW2009 during the holiday break and have found an issue. If any of you can help me please respond. Here’s what’s going on:
Since installing SW2009 sp0, I am having a problem in an assembly drawing with "link to BOM" option being "grayed out". This is an issue only on my workstation. Also loaded Sw2009 sp1.0 on my laptop and DO NOT have the problem. Uninstalled and re-installed SW2009 and installed sp2.0EV on workstation and continue to have problem. I have done very little work since loading sp2.0EV. One very simple model and all performed well. A couple notes of interest, my laptop is brand new and SW2009 loaded with no problems. My workstation had SW2007 and 2008 on it previous to SW2009 install. I did remove SW2007 and cleaned out the registry as well prior to SW2009 install.
I have been on the Forum board at SW Customer Portal and find about 8 other people reporting the same problem. I posted my computer info as well as the current settings for my workstation but have yet to find any help. My VAR has the same problem but has been unable to help at this point.

Great way to start the new year!! But look, we all get together next week and we’ll solve this thing and all be heroes!!
So, if you haven't already done so, let me know ASAP if you plan on being with us Thursday, January 8th. If you need any more incentive…I’ll pay for gas for four, randomly selected members to attend. What more could you ask for, good food, me, free gas, me, Rodney Hall, me, comradery and me. O.k., enough….See you all there.
Regards to all,

Wes

AGENDA for January 8th, 2009 MEETING

5:30 – 6:15 pm: REGISTRATION / REFRESHMENTS / SOCIAL
6:15 – 7:45 pm: The topic for this evening will be “SolidWorks Administration Tips” presented by Rodney Hall. Rodney has had experience in building and customizing computer systems and optimizing those systems to run SolidWorks. Rodney will share his knowledge and expertise in deploying and administering SolidWorks in a working environment. Featured will be “Things your IT department SHOULD KNOW about SolidWorks”.
6:50 – 7:00 pm: BREAK (maybe)
7:45 – 8:00 pm: Wrap up, Questions and Answers, Q and A, Door prizes and parting gifts.

Host Facility: Lutheran Church of the Nativity Contact: Wes Cobb
2425 Hendersonville Road Technical Design Associates, Inc.
Arden, NC 828-883-4242
(fax) 828-883-3050
tecdesign@citcom.net

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