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CADKEV, INC. and Parmenter Systems Decide to Go Separate Ways CADKEY, INC. and Par­ menter Systems, Inc. of Wel­ lesley, Massachusetts, jointly announced on December 13, 1990, that the merger proposal offered by Parmenter Systems has been rejected by CADKEY's Board of Directors. Each company wished the other well in its future business activities. "Following record sales in our fiscal year 1990," said Livingston Ergo Computing's 8" x 11" x 3" Brick (on the left side of the monitor) Davies, President of CADKEY, displaying the original CADKEY part file from which it was built. "we shall continue to pursue Ergo Computing Designs and Builds Bricks vertical marketing strategies, with our sights focused on the UsingCADKEV! mechanical design, reverse engineering, quality inspection, Tom Spalding believes that a performance for the convenience manufacturing, and AlEIC small company with the right of portability. They defined a markets. We shall emphasize tools can compete with giants 386SX system that was no bigger networking, and both UNIX and and accomplish great things. than a standard Webster's DOS platforms. CADKEY will Spalding, President of Ergo dictionary (3 x 8 x 11 inches). To also continue to explore tru e com­ Computing, Peabody, be truly useful, the system had to puter-integrated manufacturing." Massachusetts, and designer of fit into half a briefcase. the innovative Brick" computer, "Everyone who came into Ergo IN THIS ISSUE: credits the use of CADKEY got the briefcase test," Tom said. o CADKEY, INC. Opens software with allowing his small "We made sure that our European Subsidiary...... 5 team of engineers to complete prototype would fit into a o National CADKEY Users' this highly complex design standard briefcase." Mter only Group to Meet at NDES'91...11 project under a very tight eleven months of design time, in o Interlock Designs Locks ...... 7 deadline. "If Ergo is the David November 1989, Tom and Keith o DoDDS and CADKEY...... 11 among the Goliaths of computer were able to demonstrate the o DataCAD Tech Tip ...... ,,8 makers, then CADKEY is our system. In May 1990, they o Design of 60-room Hotel...... 10 slingshot," Tom says. "It was the formally introduced it. o Progressive Die Design with big reason why we were able to Tom Spalding co-founded CADKEY...... 12 get the Brick to market quickly." Ergo Computing (formerly o Engineering Fundamentals The process began in late known as A.I. Architects) in 1986 at Virginia Tech ...... ",,17 1988, when Tom Spalding and to develop hardware and o Secondary Steel Containers' Keith Kowal, Ergo's Vice software add-in products that Safe Departure ...... 20 President of Hardware would expand the capabilities of o Trade Show Update ...... 11 Engineering, saw the need for a DOS-based personal computers. o CADKEY I DataCAD portable personal computer that When they embarked on hard- Training Dates,.""." " ...... 12 did not trade power and (Continued on page 2) o Third-Party News ...... 5 Ergo Builds Bricks Dion, used software from LSI products that link with (Continued from page 1) Logic, Inc., Milpitas, California, CAD KEY. to design four, large, application­ Almost Paperless Design ware and software development specific integrated circuits, using and Manufacture to produce complete computers, gate-array technology, for the "We designed and built the the company changed its name to Brick's disk drive interface, Brick by exchanging databases Ergo Computing. system bus manager, modem with our collaborators and interface, and graphics interface. Need for a New Type of vendors," Tom Spalding said. These four ASIC chips allowed Portable Computer "We did not create detailed, them to miniaturize everything Keith and Tom had talked dimensioned hard-copy drawings to fit the concept of creating an frequently in 1988 about the until after the Brick was done, 80386-level computer, with one need for a new type of modular and we needed to produce the to eight megabytes of random computer for which the user technical documentation for it." access memory, and between 44 would have a display monitor Jim Bleck, President of Bleck and 212 megabytes of hard disk and a keyboard in more than one Design Group, echoed Tom's storage, that would fit into a 3 x location, and would transport the thoughts. "Controlling the design 8 x ll-inch form factor. full-blown processing power, process by the database rather Given the power of the application software, and data than by paper drawings frees us electronic circuitry inside their between the locations. to spend more time creating computer and its limited physical PORTABLE OFFICE magazine innovative design and packag­ size, heat dissipation posed a would later dub it "the ing," Jim said. "Models cost less significant problem. Keith and commuting computer" in its to produce from a 3-D database Bleck Design recommended that December 1990 issue. "The than from detailed drawings, and Ergo use liquid-thermal-transfer Brick is the first computer to they get done more quickly." technology developed by 3M make major advances in John Thrailkill, Bleck Design Corporation, coupled with an mechanical design, electronic Group's Director of Engineering, exterior case of aluminum design, and industrial design, all emphasized that Ergo and Bleck (acting as a wrap-around heat . at the same time," Tom said. had worked with manufacturers sink), to dissipate the heat. ThIS who either use CADKEY Incredibly Tight Design mechanism works so efficiently themselves, or who use Constraints that the ventilation fan for air manufacturing software that Keith and Tom both have cooling rarely needs to operate. interfaces directly with CADV' experience in mechanical Need to Get to Market (CADKEY Advanced Design engineering, and Keith is a~so an Quickly Language), or whose computer­ electrical engineer. To achIeve After the Ergo team knew numerical-control (CNC) the form factor with that their new-product idea was equipment accepts IGES files as functionality that they wanted, feasible, they realized that they input. "CADKEY IGES files they knew that they would be had a very narrow window of were a critical part of producing working with incredibly tight opportunity to get their product the Brick on time," John said. design constraints. "Many of our to market. They had to cut the Bleck Design's engineers and clearances are less than 30 time involved in the design and technicians have considerable thousandths of an inch," Tom manufacturing cycles. Ergo experience with computer-aided said. "We had to design in 3-D, contracted with LSI Logic to design. They had previously and we already knew that the manufacture Keith's four worked with Autodesk's best 3-D CAD software on the custom-designed ASIC chips, and AutoCAD"', Computervision's market was CADKEY." In Ergo engaged Philips North CADDS 4X"', Calma's DDM3™, March 1989, Ergo contracted America to manufacture the Hewlett Packard's ME10"' , and with an award-winning printed-circuit boards that industrial-design firm, also THIS IN 8 MINUTES Keith's team had designed. CADKEY users, Bleck Design Through Bleck Design Group, Group of Chelmsford, Massa­ Ergo made contact with sever~l chusetts, to collaborate in the specialized manufacturers. It ~s mechanical design of their com­ significant to note that the baSIC puter, and to give it an ergo­ reason why Ergo selected Bleck nomic and aesthetic package. Design Group and most of its The Brick was designed wi th manufacturing vendors for the entirely in CAD KEY, except .for Brick, other than the quality of the electronics. Keith and hIS DVC SHAPES,.. their workmanship, was the fact design team, Aomsak DVC PLANNERS that they use CADKEY or 33615 ANDY JAY Audcharevorakul and Dave JINCHESTER. CA 92396

2 McDonnell Douglas' McAUTO ventilation holes in the front UGH" . For a short time, Bleck bezel to mount the operational Design used a combination of LEDs inside the computer, CADKEY and Automatix' AX- where they are protected from 4000™. Now Bleck Design uses damage, yet where each LED's CADJETGeoDraft CADKEY exclusively, according light is clearly visible. "Scott to Jim Bleck. "CADKEY has also designed the shock­ Geometric Tolerancing given us the highest costibenefit absorbing corner pieces that give ratio of any CAD product," Jim the Brick its distinctive made explained. "It was important for appearance, as well as protection us to distribute the power to to the interior electronics, in case INCREDIBLY SIMPLE! design in 3-D throughout the the computer gets dropped," , company. It has freed us to John added. , I \ spend more time creating A Variety of Specialized innovative designs. A designer's Manufacturers "Intuitive and easy to task is, first of all, to think. Bleck Design Group sent its CADKEY's 3-D gives us a clean use, GeoDraft is very database of files to another transfer of information to our CADKEY user, Santin user friendly and aids clients for parallel development Engineering of Beverly, us a great deal in efforts." Massachusetts, to have a quick "We have standardized on tolerancing our model made. "Using the CADKEY for all of our work," . " CADKEY database, Santin d raWlngs. Gene Smith, John Thrailkill said. "Weare Southaven Rubber Co., Engineering produced the model very comfortable with CADKEY. Southaven, MI even more quickly than they had It's dependable." agreed to do," Jim Bleck said. "Because of the fixed outline CADjETGeoDrafi challenges Mter receiving the model, of Ergo's proposed product," Bleck Design sent CADKEY part all Dimensioning and John added, "from a mechanical files or CADKEY IGES files to Geometric Tolerancing point of view, it was an effort at several specialized vendors to miniaturization which would Programs, including manufacture various parts for have been almost impossible on the Brick. Using CADKEY IGES ~ainframes, to dravv the drawing board or in 2-D files with a Computervision Geometric Tolerancing CAD. That's where CAD KEY system, Bermo, Incorporated of came in." Symbols easier! Circle Pines, Minnesota, Attention to Detail produced 14 different sheet­ "Scott Wakefield, one of our metal parts within 10 working industrial designers, created the days. PTA Corporation of Des external appearance of the Plaines, Illinois, used CADKEY -~ Brick," John continued. "He IGES files with a Calma system r~ paid particular attention to the to build the tooling for plastic ~ ~i -'\l,7/~":" ~ . ventilation pattern and details in injection molding of the Brick's ~-----"'- the bezels." One significant front and rear bezels. PTA ~' ~";:r? ~"-,- I ~ detail is the placement of the shipped the first injection­ .~ .;::_--r ~-oo_ _ ~ light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in molded bezels to Ergo within the front bezel. Scott took eight weeks. "The size and advantage of the pattern of number of ventilation holes in Geometric Tolerancing Symbols the front bezel presented us with pop-up right on your CADKEY Precision Fonts for CAD KEY some manufacturing problems at screen I CAOJ]'GeoIJraftu ""I'"'" CADKE>3.S. first," said Rudy Dirr, The Real Thing! Engineering Manager at PTA,

Currently shipping the following classic emulations : "but everything worked well in Helvetica Medium Times Roman the end." Tech Prototype of 800-729-6520 Helvetica Bold Palatino Merrimack, New Hampshire, Helvetica Heavy Lubalin another CADKEY user, produced Eurostyle Medium 12 other injection-molded parts HLB for the Brick. They, too, TECHNOLOGY To Order Your Free Font Catalog designed the tooling, built the We Milke CADKEY El'ell Better! Call ArcDraft America At molds, and produced finished 1·800·447 ·4165 parts for Ergo's Brick in eight (Conti nued on page 4) 3 Ergo Builds Bricks they still succeeded in delivering typical scenario when you are (Continued from page 3) finished corner pieces to Ergo in assembling a race car, with two weeks. components made from different weeks, according to Bob Husson, Chatel Engineering Co. of vendors, is that you have to do a Vice President of Engineering. Lowell, Massachusetts, made the little fiddling when you get all of Leominster Die Service of aluminum extrusions for the the pieces together. There Leominster, Massachusetts, also Brick's exterior case. Using always seem to be a few things received CADKEY IGES files aluminum contributed to that want to occupy the same from Bleck Design Group to achieving not only the heat location. With the Brick, we design and produce injection­ dissipation necessary for the were pleasantly surprised that mold tooling for the Brick's Brick's compact electronics, but everything fit together the first corner pieces. Leominster Die also the Brick's weight of 8.3 time, even with as much as we used the CADKEY IGES files pounds. Although Chatel had packed into our little box, with their SmartCAM~ CNC Engineering does not yet use and with clearances in the few manufacturing system. They computer-aided design, Lou thousandths. This was only delivered the finished injection Chatel, Sr., President of the possible because of the 3-D molds to Custom Molded company, furnished the software." Plastics, Inc., also of Leominster, extrusion-related data to John Afterword in eight weeks. Custom Molded Thrailkill for entry into Bleck Dana Seero, President of Plastics did the actual injection Design Group's Brick database. Computer-Aided Products in molding of the corner pieces Unexpected Bonus Marblehead, Massachusetts, using Ato-Chem, Inc.'s PEBAX~ , When the technicians at used an Ergo Brick to demon­ a new, nylon-based, rubberlike Ergo assembled the parts into strate CADKEY 386'" at the Leo­ plastic. Fred Beermunder and their first working prototype minster Plastics Fair, Oct. 11-12, Earl White of Custom Molded Brick, they were amazed to find 1990. Using part files created in Plastics encountered processing that everything fit together making the Brick, he described problems in working with this perfectly the first time. "I grew CADKEY as "the Swiss Army new material, especially in up in my father's machine shop Knife of CAD tools." "People at matching the PEBAX's color and where he made parts for racing the Plastics Fair were amazed," finish to the color and finish of cars," Tom Spalding said. "The Dana said, "at what they saw the the Brick's exterior case. Yet, Brick and CAD KEY do."

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4 CADKEY, INC. Opens European Subsidiary CADKEY Europe, B.V., a than 30 countries around the Netherlands corporation and world, through a network of wholly owned subsidiary of experienced international CADKEY, INC., will open its distributors," Jeff noted. "By offices at Zettachring 6 1992, we hope to double that." (Businesspark), Stuttgart, In Stage Three, CADKEY Germany, in January 1991. Europe will add a marketing CADKEY Europe represents a group dedicated to unifying and new thrust by CADKEY to coordinating CADKEY's increase its presence in the international marketing European market. program. This will include "CADKEY has experienced giving CADKEY's trade press, 1 BLA CKL I NE explosive growth in overseas advertising, trade shows, and sales during the past year," said technical literature a common ABCDEFG1234 Livingston Davies, President and look and theme. T 3 co-founder of CADKEY, at the Participating in the Global ~ 2 Block announcement of CADKEY Market " Europe in October 1990. "We "The software industry is ABeD abed 1234 feel that we have only begun to going to have to enter into the -:

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Using the volume of >s May and John Paterson founded the solid model of the lock gener­ 5 12 DIGITRL the company in 1984 with some @) ated by CADKEY SOLIDS, they new ideas about door and calculate the cavity volume for 5 RBCDEFGl 234 0.. window locks, which they a the die that will be used to make c patented worldwide in 1985. E the lock. Then, they copy the l3 Drorter Their customers already span --""-, pattern files of the die blocks into the globe, and the number of ..c ABCDobcd 1234 "­= CADKEY part files and modify CD Interlock's employees has "0 them to create a new die. The swelled to 110. .g O~ [1D~&J tool designers also design the = Lock Design placement of water lines and s:: &J@@@O :?2~@] ~ Interlock features left-hand cooling channels. "We attempt E @ and right-hand models of its to maximize the cooling efficien­ 15 Slant locking hardware. The locks are cy of the die," Brett added, "so manufactured from die-cast zinc that we can run the die fast, ABeD abed} 234 alloy. Some window locks That reduces the cost per part." feature a nylon flap that extends Interlock does not manufac­ 16 CUSIC .. and retracts as the window is ture its own die sets, An outside Q a locked or unlocked, to prevent manufacturer produces the tools c AS G1234 E damage to the window sash. for them, "Die casting involves "Our designers do everything two parts, the fixed half and the ; l7 POSTER .. using CAD KEY in 3-D, right movable half," Brett said, "You -8 ABCDEFG l234 ~ from the initial concept on the clamp the movable half to the -g TI computer screen," said Brett fixed half and inject the molten a.. Cl . ~ May. Interlock's door and metal into the cavity through a ~ R3 ChlrlliSliSlY window hardware include many nozzle connected via a gooseneck AECalbc R234 interchangeable parts for which tube to a vat of molten zinc alloy, they have created a library of The molten metal is then forced It! , \ I • , pattern files. "Mter building a into the gooseneck tube by a wire-fr ame model of a lock," hydraulic piston," Brett continued, "we generate a Profitable Productivity solid model of the lock in "A prospective customer in CADKEY SOLIDS. This solid the United Kingdom had model serves two purposes. We received a proposed product use the solid model, first, to design from us," Brett said, "but check for interference. Then, the they required an adjustment to a solid model also creates an image sculptured handle which they that we use as an illustration in sent to us by fax, We modified our catalogue. It lets the the design in CADKEY and, the customer see the product without next day, we faxed them a print having to build a prototype." produced on a laser printer, The Die Design next morning we received a fax Interlock's tool designers from them with a firm order for have created a standard set of 120,000 locks," 7 DataCAD Tech Tip sure that both wall lines that you any entities. want to cut reside on the same To remove a door/window fronl Inserting and layer. After you have located the a wall , DataCAD Version 4.0 now Removing Doors and appropriate layer, enter the has a Re move function in the Arch itct menu, and select DoorSwng and Windows sub­ Windows DoorSwng (door swing) or menus of the Architct menu. After by Steve Falu si Windows. Pick LyrSr ch (layer you select Remove, the system search), and select the layer that prompts you to draw a box around A door or a window does not contains these wall lines. If you do the door or window that you want have to reside on the same layer as not do this correctly, when you try to removed. If the door/window that the wall into which it is inserted. insert the door or window, you will you want to remove resides on a The process of inserting a door or a receive an error message: No walls different layer than the wall lines, window into a wall on a different found to cut. Use the Tab key to be sure to turn on LyrSrch in the layer is not difficult, once you know change the active layer to the layer Remove submenu. After you select how to do it. onto which you plan to insert the the door/window, DataCAD will Before inserting a door or a door or window. Then, insert the delete it and restore the wall. When window, use the Identify function door or the window. you are drawing the box around the found in the EDIT menu to Note: the Cu t Wall option in window or the door, keep in mind determine the layer in your the Arch itct menu works in a that only t he wall lines should drawing on which the wall lines that similar manner. However, it cuts extend beyond the perimeter of the you want to cut are located. Make and caps the walls without inserting box.

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DataCAD drawing of the Northwest perspective of the hotel, designed by Jacques Lioret, under construction at Boussy-Saint-Antoine. The construction of in DataCAD's formal Appreciation economical yet luxurious hotels introduction into the French "DataCAD's ease of use is is a rapidly expanding market in market at MICAD '90 in Paris, really conceived for the France today. This new type of February 13-16,1990. Instead of architect," Jacques said. "Its hotel construction around the presenting a formal numerous 3-D functions, and outskirts of cities typically demonstration of DataCAD, especially its possibilities of includes a facility of 48 to 60 Jacques began to design the visualization in perspective, won rooms, on two or three floors, hotel, live, in CADKEY's booth at me over. DataCAD allowed me with a separate restaurant a the trade show. At the same to create the documents required short distance from the hotel time, he answered visitors' for a construction permit in itself, all under one questions. (See 3-D WORLD, May/ record time, and then a complete management. June 1990, page 7.) He was set of detailed construction In February 1990, Jacques ready to present a preliminary plans." Lioret, Architect and Managing design of the project to his client At the same time, Jacques Director of ABACAD, S.A.R.L. in shortly after MICAD '90. used CACAO'", an architectural Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of and construction project- Paris, received a commission to Construction management software that he design this type of hotel. Lucien Construction of the hotel himself created, to manage all of Sanz, Managing Director of began on July 25, 1990, on 3,700 the non-graphical aspects of a Gehor, S.A. and leader of this square meters of land in Boussy- project, including: quantitative hotel project, signed the contract Saint-Antoine, a suburban town, estimates needed to accompany with Jacques Lioret for the Southeast of Paris, not far from the graphical documents and design of the facility, with the the site of the future Disney plans used for consultation with stipulation that Jacques would World at Marne-la-Vallee. contractors, work in progress, do everything necessary to have Construction is in reinforced costs, and timely payment of the hotel ready to open early in concrete, stone, and brick, with vendors during the construction 1991. prefabricated bathrooms, period. In France, an architect completely finished at the must calculate with precision the Two Challenges in One factory, then set in place by a costs of a construction project, in Jacques, an architect of more crane onto each reinforced slab addition to the detailed technical than 20 years' experience, whose of concrete flooring. Completion specifications. These architectural firm has used is scheduled for March 1, 1991. construction costs must agree computers for almost 10 years, The hotel includes 60 rooms with the budget for the accepted the challenge of such a on three levels, in two wings operation. And, all of this must tight deadline. Jacques had been linked to a central nucleus. be done before any consultation using CADKEY(R) to design Rooms on the ground floor are with contractors. buildings in 3-D ever since directly accessible by outside As of 3-D WORLD'S press time, CADKEY's introduction into covered walkways. Rooms on the construction of the hotel at France in 1986. However, he upper floors can be reached Boussy-Saint-Antoine is had just been introduced to through interior corridors. The proceeding on schedule for DataCAD") in January, 1990. restaurant is designed to seat opening on March 1, 1991. Instead of using CADKEY this 100 people, and features an open Editor's Note: For information about time, Jacques decided to design grill in the main dining room. It CACAO" , contact Jacques Lioret, this hotel project entirely in also includes a function room on ABACAD, S.A.R.L., 18 Avenue Charles de DataCAD. the second floor. Gaulle, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Jacques participated actively Telephone (from outside of Francel: 33-1- 47-47-62-90. FAX: 33-1 -47-47-20-79. 10 DoDDS and CADKEy Launch New CADKEY National Users' Group to Meet Opportunities for Students During NOES '91 Six hundred students from prize in the competition: a trip as The CADKEY National 27 high schools in the Germany the representative of the Users' Group will meet in Region of the U.S. Department of Germany Region of DoDDS to conjunction with NDES '91 at Defense Dependent Schools the International Technology McCormick Place, in Chicago, (DoDDS) participated in the Education Association's 53rd Illinois, on Tuesday, April 9, Technology Fair at Frankfurt­ Annual Conference in Salt Lake 1991, from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. The am-Main on June 1, 1990. Jim City, Utah, March 19-20, 1991. meeting will include a tour of Zucchetti, Career Education Harvey Watson, a senior, won CADKEY's booth (#211 ) at the Coordinator for the DoDDS the trophy for the best show. CADKEY invites all users secondary schools in Germany, archi tectural-engineering to participate. said that approximately 100 portfolio, and Un Hui Bridges, students took part in the also a senior, won the trophy for architectural-engineering and the best mechanical-engineering CAD KEYI DataCAD mechanical-engineering portfolio. competitions included in the "CADKEY and DataCAD Trade Show Update program. software are the only CAD See CADKEY(R) and DataCAD(R) This was the sixth annual products currently approved for at these trade shows in 1991: Technology Fair among the use in DoDDS," said Jim National Association of Home DoDDS schools in Germany. Zucchetti. "We are using Builders '91, Jan. 18-22, The program was expanded this CADKEY 3 (Version 3.5) and Congress Center, Atlanta, GA, year to include computer-aided CADKEY SOLIDS in our Booth #1752. design in addition to traditional Technology Education programs. Mechanical Drawing. Three We shall include DataCAD and FOSE '91, Mar. 3-7, Washington competitions highlighted the DC Modeler beginning in Convention Center, Washington, expanded program. One event September 1990." DC, Booth #G4220. featured live, on-site CAD DoDDS' Germany Region has competitions in mechanical 92,000 students, Kindergarten WESTEC '91, Mar. 18-21, Los engineering, using CADKEY. through 12th Grade, in 140 Angeles Convention Center, Los And, two competitions involved schools. Fifty of these schools Angeles, CA, Booth #P699. portfolios, submitted by students, are at the secondary level, with National Design Engineering of projects completed during the approximately 30,000 students in Show NDES '91, Apr. 8-11, academic year in architectural Grades 7 through 12. There are McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, engineering and mechanical 3,500 students enrolled in Booth #211 . engineering. The students had Technology Education programs. used CAD KEY to create all of "Our goal is to expose, at least, AEC '91, May 7-10, Washington the material in their portfolios. all of our TE students to CAD Convention Center, Washington, Coincidentally, five students, using CADKEY and DataCAD," DC, Booth #1111. all from Wiesbaden High School, Jim added. "We shall have our AlA '91 , May 17-19, Convention won the nine top prizes and CAD program completely Center, Washington, DC. trophies. Frank C. Pendzich, operational in the 1990-1991 President of the Overseas school year." Call Danielle Cote, Events Technology Educators "Several teachers have Manager, for the availability of Association, and Bruce played key roles in getting CAD discounted admission tickets one Polderman of CADKEY, INC. into the Technical Education month before the show, (203) presented the prizes and programs in our schools," Jim 647-0220, ext. 7150. trophies. Dawn Jonas, a continued, "prominent among sophomore, won first place for them are Byron Smith CADKEY/DataCAD at the on-site CAD competition. (Wiesbaden High SchooD, David She was awarded DataCAD") Izzo (Ramstein High SchooD, International Trade (Version 4.0) because of her John Henk (Stuttgart High Shows interest in architectural SchooD, and Rick Hoffman engineering. Klaus Vik, a (Mannheim Middle School)." MICAD '91, Feb. 11-15, Paris, freshman, received CADKEY 3'" "We are already planning France, SYSECA. (Version 3.5) for second place in our next Technology Fair to CeBit '91 , Mar. 13-20, the live CAD competition. And, take place in the third week of Hannover, Germany, SOFT­ Jeremy Nix, a junior, won third May 1991." TECH.

11 TRAINING SCHEDULE AT CADKEY, INC. Progressive Die Design

We have Training dates scheduled through April 1991. Please call with CADKEY Customer Service to register: (203) 647-0220, ext. 8030. by Calvin Sams Course Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. Today's marketplace for tool and die work is very competitive. Very few Introduction to CADKEY 21 -23 18-20 11-13 8-10 shops in this business today can Introduction to DataCAD 7-9 survive, and have the competitive edge Advanced Geometric Modeling 24-25 21-22 14- 15 11-12 that one must have, without using CADKEY SOLIDS 28-29 some form of computer-aided CADKEY/DataCAD Training In U.S. & Canada manufacturing. Tool and die shops have not been very progressive in the CAD/CAM Many authorized CADKEY and DataCAD Training Centers have scheduled marketplace until a few years ago. If courses in addition to the training available at CADKEY's world headquarters here in Manchester, CT. The following is a list of who is doing what, where, and a tool and die shop had CAD/CAM, they were really ahead of their time. when: Today is different. Without CAD and! State CTC Location/Contact Course Dates or CAM, a shop cannot survive the demands of industry. These demands Ark. Crowley's 140 and Crowley's Intro. to Jan 10-11,17-18 are: shorter lead times, better quality Ridge Ridge Rd. CADKEY Feb. 1-2, 14-15 of tools, and accurate drawings of Vo-Tech Forrest City, AR Feb. 28 these tools. School Charles Coleman Mar. 1, 7-8,14-15 (50l) 633-5411 Apr. 11-12,18-19 May 16-17, 22-24

Calif. CAD 5120 W. GoldleafCir. Intro. to Jan. 9-11 MicroSystems Suite 100 CADKEY Feb. 5-7 Los Angeles, CA Mar. 12-14 Monica Hunter Advanced Jan. 23-24 (213)291 -2000 CADKEY CADKEY Jan. 22 SOLIDS

Consulting 14621 Titus St. Intro. to 3rd full week Services Van Nuys, CA CADKEY of each month. International Bob Messamer Advanced Scheduled (818)994-8881 CADKEY on request.

Desktop 18200 Yorba Linda Bd. DataCAD for Jan. 9-18 Plan views of progressive die. Productions Yorba Linda, CA the Architect Jan. 15-24 Advantage of CAD Carol Buehrens Mon.lWed. or Feb. 4-14 To design a tool or die in CAD, (714)579-3066 Tue.fl'hurs. or Feb. 19-28 let's look at some of the advantages of Wed.lFri. Mar. 4-13 CAD. These include faster turn­ Mar. 12-21 around of designs, cleaner and more DC Modeler Jan. 10, 23 accurate drawings, the ability to Feb. 6,20 make easier changes to the drawings Mar. 5,15, 20 when necessary, less chance of Advanced Jan. 25, Feb. 13, dimensional errors, and the ability to DataCAD Mar. 28 transfer data electronically. This Data CAD Jan. 29, Feb. 27, electronic transfer of data can be to Keybd Macros Mar. 26 CAM systems or to the customer for Evergreen 3095 Yerba Buena Rd. Intro. to Jan .11,12, 19 verification of the tool design. Valley San Jose, CA CADKEY Mar. 25-27 Now that we know some of the College Loren Fromm advantages, let's take a die from (408)274-7900 conception to detail drawings. The Golden 15744 Golden West St. Intro. to Mar. 1-3 first thing that a designer will do is to West Huntington Beach, CA CADKEY take the part drawing and analyze College Jack North the part. Sometimes it is good for a (714) 895-8209 customer to send a part, if at all possible. The designer will look for

12 the following: (1) What is the material CADKEYIDataCAD Training in U.S. & Canada (continued) and what are its hardness and strength factors? (2) Which hole dimensions are State CTC Location/Contact Course Dates critical; what are their sizes and Poelman's 901 Campisi Way, #360 Intro, to Feb. 25-27 locations? (3) What surfaces are critical Design Campbell, CA CADKEY Mar. 25-27 to the part? (4) What forms are Service Mike Poelman CADKEY Jan. 28-30 required, and what are their tolerances? (408)377-3585 SOLIDS (5) Is the grain direction of the material CADL Apr. 22-26 critical? (6) What are the production Ukiah 1000 Low Gap Rd. Intro. to Jan. 4-6 requirements of the part? (7) What are High Ukiah,CA CADKEY Feb. 1-3 the specifications of the punch press in School Jim Howlett (Weekends) which the die will run: shut height, (707)463-5253,x284 bolster area, clamping area, bolster clearance area, strokes per minute, Colo. University 1200 Larimer St. Intra. to Call for tonnage, feed height, type of feeder, of Colorado Denver, CO CADKEY schedule. maximum length of progression for at Denver Andreas Vlahinos Advanced feeder, and part-ejection methods? (8) (303) 556-2370 CADKEY What safety standards must the press Conn. DATAMAT 9 Mott Avenue Intra, to Jan 28-Feb. 1 and the die meet? Mter these details Program- Norwalk, CT CADKEY Mar. 18-22 are known, the designer will start to lay ming Matt Reuben Apr. 22-26 out the part. Systems (203) 855-8102 May 20-24 University S.I. Ward College Intro. to Jan. 22 to of Hartford of Technology CADKEY May 2 200 Bloomfield Av. (Tues. & Thurs. W. Hartford, CT mornings) Don De Bonee (203) 243-4763

Fla. Gateway 1090lB Roosevelt Blvd. Intro. to Jan. 21-23 Computer St. Petersburg, FL CADKEY Feb. 11-13 !iiI ,. Learning Terri Long Advanced Scheduled Center (813)576-0549 CADKEY on request. CADKEY Scheduled SOLIDS on request. , l ftIM:!! Indian River 3209 Virginia Av. Intro. to Mar. 1-3 Community Fort Pierce, FL CADKEY (weekend) College Bill Sigurdson Individualized Strip layout of progressive die. DeanZirwas audit courses Advantage of CADKEY (407)468-4700,x4269 available. This is the area where the designer m. PFB 2525 E. Oakton Av. Intra. to Jan. 9-11 can put CADKEY to real use. When Concepts Arlington Heights, IL CADKEY Jan. 23-25 first starting to layout a part, it is a Bob Konczal Feb. 6-8 good idea to go ahead and draw the part (708)640-1853 Mar. 6-8 in 3-D. Designing directly in 3-D is not Apr. 10-12 yet the most common approach to die Two CADKEY Users' Groups Consolidate Advanced Feb. 20-22 design. The die design itself can The Atlanta Area CADKEY Users' Group CADKEY Apr, 24-26 basically be done in 2-D alone. This in Decatur, Georgia, and the Georgia/Southeast CADKEY Mar. 21-22 includes the strip layout, the die plan, CADKEY Users' Group in Marietta, Georgia SOLIDS May 23-24 the punch plan, and the stripper plan. have consolidated into one group according to CADL Mar. 16-17 Most of the detail work can also be done Lisa Maier and Tom Knesel, the contact people (weekend) May18-19 in 2-D. However, designers are finding for the two groups. Tom Knesel of APPLIED CADKEY Feb. 15 that the ability to design in 3-D has COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES, 450 Franklin Light Apr. 19 distinct advantages. Street, Marietta, Georgia, (404) 424-3785, is the Jun. 14 Drawing in 3-D allows you, the contact person for the combined group. PageMaker Feb. 28-Mar. 1 designer, to see what the part will be. If L..-______--I for CADKEY May 2-3 possible, have the customer bring the Ind. Tri-State Technology Division Intro. to Feb. 9, 16, 23 drawings to you on disk. If the part was University Angola, IN CADKEY (Saturdays full not originally designed in CADKEY, you Ed Nagle day) can translate the geometry into (219) 665-4262

13 CADKEYIDataCAD Training in U.S. & Canada (continued) CADKEY format through IGES or DXF translation. CADKEY has IGES and State CTC Location/Contact Course Dates DXF translators that work really well. Iowa Iowa Lakes 300 South 18th St. Intro. to Special Community Estherville, IA CADKEY schedules by Flat-Pattern Layout and Strip College Roger Patocka request . Layout (712) 362-2604 After the part file exists in Mass. Springfield 1 Armory Square Intra. to Jan. 7-9 CADKEY, you can unfold the part, that Technical Springfield, MA CADKEY Mar. 19-21 is, make a flat pattern of the part, using Community William White Jun. 3-5 a third-party program like Profold '" from College (41 3)781-7822 Applied Production, Inc. This program allows a designer to fold or unfold parts Worcester 100 Institute Road Intro. to J anuary, with a complete user interface for radius Polytechnic Worcester, MA CADKEY March, June compensation and angles. Institute Sean Anzoni (2nd or 3rd full The designer can take the flat­ Pat Scavone week of month) pattern layout and make the strip (508) 831-5633 Call for dates. layout for the die. This is very easy to Mich. CIMand 5900 N. Lilley Rd. #101 Intro. to Feb. 19-21 do in CADKEY because you know the Future Canton, MI CADKEY Mar. 19-21 length of the part. All that you need to Solutions PaulZwarka Advanced Jan. 14-15 do is to copy the geometry using the (313)981-7455 CADKEY Feb. 11-12 functions: X-FORM, TRANS-R, COPY. FAX: (31 3) 981-7473 Mar. 11-12 You select the geometry, specify the Washtenaw Occupational Ed. Bldg. Intro. to May13-15 number of copies desired, and key in the Community 4800 E. Huron River Dr.CADKEY Jun. 3-5 x, y, z coordinates required. The College Ann Arbor, MI CADKEY May 21-22 coordinates in most cases will be the Belinda McGuire S OLIDS Jun. 11-1 2 length of the part plus material (31 3)973-3300 thickness multiplied by 2, according to the formula: [LOP+(MT*2)l- This is the Minn. Albert Lea 2200 Tech Dr. Intra. to point where a designer's discretion Technical Albert Lea, MN CADKEY Scheduled enters the picture. In most cases, you Institute Larry Gilderhus Advanced on request. will know what your customer expects. (507) 373-0656 CADKEY An easy-to-use reference procedure, Anoka 11200 Mississippi Blvd. Intro. to J an. 14-Feb. 4 using drawing numbers with different Ramsey Coon Rapids, MN CADKEY (M. & W. eve.) letter extensions, can keep multiple Community Tom Loftus Advanced Feb. 18-Mar. 11 drawing files in order. For example, use College (612)427-2600 CADKEY (M. & W. eve.) the number 1000-P as the drawing Adv. Geom. Mar . 25-27 number/filename when referring to a (Customized classes Modeling (Day course) part drawing and/or to a flat-pattern at CTC or on site CADKEY Mar. 27-28 layout. Use 1000-S to refer to the strip scheduled on SOLIDS (Day course) layout. From this you can start to see request .) Apr. 1-17 how to place the cuts needed to achieve (M. &W eve.) the part's geometry. After completing Moorhead Industrial Studies Dept. Intro. to Mar. 4-6 this, use X-HATCH to designate the cut areas. State Moorhead, MN CADKEY Jun. 3-5 University Wade Swenson (218) 236-2466 Strip Carriers Your next step is to decide on the St. Paul 235 Marshall Ave. Intra. to Call for best location for the strip carriers. Technical St. Paul, MN CADKEY schedule. These carriers actually carry and keep Institute Michael Haffner the strip together while the part (612)221-1307 progresses through the die. Then, you Miss. Mississippi Highway 3, Box 668 Intro. to J an 28-30 need to decide where to form the part in Delta Moorhead, MS CADKEY the die, and to X-HATCH the areas Community Tony Honeycutt where the forming of the part will take College (601 ) 246-5631, ext.1 03 place. With CADKEY's EDIT and Mont. Montana West Park St . Intro. to J an . 7-9 BREAK functions and its various line Tech Butte, MT CADKEY types, it is very easy to show where all Dick J ohnson these actions take place in a die. (406) 496-4452 After the initial strip layout, review what you have done. It may be possible

14 to merge stations together to shorten CADKEYIDataCAD Training in U.S. & Canada (continued) the length of the tool. Avoid unnecessary stations and secondary State CTC Location/Contact Course Dates operations, if at all possible. After you N.C. Entre 110 Charlotte Plaza DataCAD I Scheduled have made any corrections that appear Computer Charlotte, NC DataCAD II on request . necessary, you need to show cross­ Center John Murphy DC Modeler sectional views of what happens in the (704) 332-1557 form areas of the die. Most companies N.H. Portsmouth Alumni Drive Intro. to Call for require a die designer to supply a cross­ Senior Portsmouth, NH CADKEY schedule. sectional view of the die. Customers High Kenneth Webber also want to see what happens in the School (603)436-7100 form areas. The form areas are very New Mexico P.O. Box 30001 Intro. to Mar. 11-13 clearly visible when they have been N.M. State Dept. 3450 CADKEY May 6-8 designed in 3-D. 3-D allows the University Las Cruces, NM J ul. 8-10 designer and the customer to see exactly Maurice Hamilton Advanced Mar. 14-15 what is expected to happen in each one (505) 646-3501 CADKEY May 9-10 of the stations. Jul.1l-12 Die Plan N.Y. American 118-21 Queens Blvd. Intro. to Jan. 7-9 After you have completed the strip Training Forest Hills, NY CADKEY Feb. 4-6 layout, the die plan is your next step. Center, Arkady Kleyner Advanced J an. 10-11 This process involves laying out the die­ Inc. (718 )544-8100 CADKEY Feb. 7-8 cutting sections and the die-forming (800) 273-ATCI Intro. to Jan. 14-16 sections. Then, if necessary, layout the (N.Y. only) DataCAD Feb. 11 -13 die chase. A die chase, or some form of Advanced J an. 17-18 holding all of the die's components in a DataCAD Feb. 14-15 solid section of steel, is not required for Iona 715 North Av. Intro. to Jan. 10 every die. College New Rochelle, NY CADKEY Your next decision is what die set to Flory Netsch use. If you have the option of not (914)235-1360 needing to use a purchased die set, you Rochester 1 Lomb Memorial Dr. Intro. to Feb. 4-6 can very easily design a custom die set. Institute of Rochester, NY CADKEY Many die-set manufacturers will make a Technology Dr. Robert Hefner Advanced J an. 14-16 customized set of dies for a customer, (716)475-2205 CADKEY according to their drawings. S.U.N.Y. at School of Engineering Intro. to Feb. l1-Mar . 18 Punch Layout Farmingdale Lupton Hall CADKEY (Mon. evenings) The punch layout is the next step in Farmingdale, NY Advanced Apr. 8-May 13 the process of die design. CADKEY Harriet Kaiser CADKEY (Mon. evenings) makes this easy to do. Make a different (516)420-21 58 level of the part file active, and use the Ohio Progressive 6964 Spinach Dr . Intro. to J an. 8-9 functions X-FORM, MIRROR, and Computing Mentor,OH CADKEY Feb. 5-6 COPY to create the punch layout on Corp., Inc. Jean Kempton Advanced Jan. 16-17 that active level of the file. You must (216) 255-0460 CADKEY Feb. 13-14 decide how to locate the punches. You CADKEY Feb. 26-27 can determine individual punch SOLIDS locations, or you can locate all of the CADL and J an. 29 punches with a chase. After you have Macros determined the location of the punches, Okla. Oklahoma 301 Cordell South Intro. to Jun. 12 make a pattern file of the die plan and State Stillwater, OK CADKEY of the punch plan. Then, you can create University Gerald McClain Intermed. Jun. 13-14 a blank part file and insert the pattern (405)744-5709 CADKEY file of the die plan and the punch plan. Advanced Jul. 24-26 This keeps the size of your die's original CADKEY part file very workable. Modeling Mar. 11 -13 The next step is the stripper layout. and SOLIDS Ie The punch plan allows you to determine where to place the die springs and Ore. CTR 6420 SW Macadam Av. I ntro. to Courses offered shoulder bolts. Business Portland, OR CADKEY every month. Systems Sandi McNeil Advanced Call for (503) 293-8627 CADKEY schedule. 15 CADKEYIDataCAD Training in U.S. & Canada (continued) Detail Drawings After a designer has completed all of the State CTC Location/Contact Course Dates plan drawings, it is up to the customer Ore. Rogue 3345 Redwood Hwy. Advanced Jan 3-Mar. 14 to approve the die design. Only then Community Grants Pass, OR CADKEY (Tu. & Th. a.m. ) can the designer start to work on the College Del Harris Intro. to Jan. 3·Mar. 14 detail drawings. The time involved in (503) 479·5541 Data CAD (Tu. & Th. eve.) detail drawing with CADKEY is much Pa. Butler College Dr. , Oak Hills Intro. to Jan. 10-11 shorter than with other CAD systems, County Butler, PA CADKEY due to CADKEY's ease of dimensioning. Community Mike Aikens Dimensioning in CADKEY takes 50% to College (412)287·8711 75% less time than other leading CAD Computer- 1360 Harrisburg Pike Intro. to Scheduled systems, and does not detract from the accuracy of the drawings. This time Land Lancaster, PA Data CAD on request, savings allows you to be more Lori Fraser Advanced on site or (717)291 -2111 DataCAD in house. competitive in costing designs. Completion of the detail drawings Edinboro G·34 Hendricks Hall Intro. to J an. 8-10 means that the design is ready for University Edinboro, PA CADKEY Mar. 26-28 release to the tool room for building the ofPA Peter Mathews May 14-16 die. The toolmaker can build a better (814) 732·2592 quality die from the drawings because Micro 390 Middletown Blvd. Intro. to Jan.1S-1S the drawings are more accurate and Control Langhorne, PA. CADKEY Feb. 13-16 cleaner than board-drawn designs. Inc. Marion Homan Mar. 13-16 What you, the designer put into the (215)752-5510 Advanced Feb. 26-28 CAD KEY system is exactly what will CADKEY come out in the plots for the detail Intro. to Jan. 21-23 drawings. With good detail drawings, Data CAD Feb. 19-21 the tool room has the advantage of fast Mar. 19-21 replacement parts for the die. This Texas MLC CAD 5316Highway290West Intro. to Jan. 8·10 H speed of replacement can mean the Systems Austin, TX CADKEY J an. 15-17 A difference between running the die, or Barbara Leesley Feb. 5-7 D waiting for someone to measure and (512) 892-6311 Feb. 12-14 A build another part, in the hope that the A=Austin Advanced Jan. 22-23 A replacement part will locate properly D = Dallas CADKEY Feb. 19-20 A and function just like a new part. H = Houston CADL On request. Editor's Note: Calvin Sams has worked in the Texas A&I Industrial Technology Intro. to Jan. 2-4 tool and die industry for 13 years. He is presently University Campus Box 203 CADKEY CAD Manager at MORNINGSTAR CAD/CAM/CIM! DNC Specialists, Albemarle, North Carolina. Kingsville, TX Herschel Kelley THIRD-PARTY NEWS (512) 595-2608 VDAFS - A New Interface for CADKEY VDAFS" , a DIN-standard neutral Texas P.O. Box 4200 Intro. to Jan. 8-10 format used by the German automotive CADKEY Mar.1S-20 Tech Lubbock, TX industry for the exchange of geometric data, University Mary Bentancourt May14-16 especially free surfaces, (DIN 66301 ) now (806) 742·3451 Aug. 20-22 integrates with CADKEY. For information, Va. Republic 855 West Main St. DataCAD I Jan. 14-16 contact CGA Dr. Benz Technologiezentrum Research Charlottesville, VA DataCAD II Jan. 7-8 Mainz, Galileo Galilei Strasse 10, D-6500 Training Gregg Kendrick DataCAD 3-D Jan. 9-10 Mainz 42, Germany. Telephone: 49-6131 - Center (804) 296-9747 506840. FAX: 49-6131-506819. (800) 476-4454 ROBOT SIMULATOR Virginia 144 Smyth Hall Intro. to Mar. 11-13 (Continued from page 5) Polytechnic Blacksburg, VA CADKEY ASCII format. MULTICAD Studio is Institute Allen Bame seeking CADKEY users, interested in (703) 231 -6480 robotics, who would like to test their application software. For additional Wash. Everett 801 Wetmore Av. Intro. to Jan. 23-25 information, contact MULTICAD Studio, Community Everett, WA CADKEY Mar. 27-29 Ltd., 1089 Budapest VIII Elnok u 1, College Stu Barger Jun. 19-21 Hungary. Telephone (outside of Hungary): Kathy Ardmore Aug. 21-23 361-113-8217. FAX: 361-113-9537. English­ (206) 388-9429 speaking contact: Gabor Benjamin. 16 Engineering Fundamentals CADKEYIDataCAD Training in U.S. & Canada (continued) at Virginia Tech Feature State CTC Location/Contact Course Dates CADKEV Wash. Walla Walla School of Engineering Intro. to Mar. 10-12 College College Place, WA CADKEY by Dr. C.E. Teske DaleVisger (509)527-271 2 In 1990 the College of Engineering Wis. CAD 120 Bishops Way, #136 Intra. to 2nd and 4th at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, PROfessionals Brookfield, WI CADKEY Tuesdays of Blacksburg, Virginia adopted Inc. DanWarsh Intra. to every month. CADKEY~ , Version 3.55 as its standard (414)782-9199 DataCAD CADKEY for computer graphics throughout all of CADKEY SURFACES the college's engineering departments. SOLIDS CADKEY Virginia Tech requires that entering RENDER freshmen, approximately 1,200 students each year, purchase a computer package Lakeshore 1290 North Avenue Intro. to Jan. 7-9 that includes hardware and software. Technical Cleveland, WI CADKEY May 21-23 Initially the college selected CADKEY College Robert Moore (414)458-4183 1 ~ , Version 1.4, the student version of CADKEY for integration into the Milwaukee 1025 N. Milwaukee St. Intra. to Feb. 27-Mar. 1 engineering-graphics course in School of Milwaukee, WI CADKEY May 21-23 Engineering Fundamentals. CADKEY Engineering Marvin Bollman 1, now called appropriately CADKEY (414)277-7357 STUDENT", served to bridge the gap North 1000 Campus Dr. Intra. to Courses between traditional drafting and CAD Central Wausau, WI CADKEY scheduled technology. The college upgraded to the Technical Michael Clark on request. professional-level of CADKEY as part of College (715)675-3331 the freshman-year computer package to Wyo. University 3085 Engineering Bldg. I ntro. to Jan. 9-11 keep pace with the advancements in of Laramie, WY CADKEY May15-17 CAD technology. The college now uses Wyoming Donald Polson Jul. 24-26 the complete, industrial-level version of Jean Richardson Aug. 26-28 CAD KEY. (307) 766-5255

Developing a Feeling for CANADA Visualization Provo CTC Location/Contact Course Dates CADKEY is replacing the traditional pa per-pencil-and-drafting - instruments British Pacific 265 West Esplanade Intra. to Courses methods of teaching engineering Colum- Marine North Vancouver, B.C. CADKEY scheduled graphics. Students begin to use bia Training Mike Davison on request. CADKEY at the very beginning of their Institute (604)985-0622 course. It is their main means of New New P.O. Box 2100, Sta. A Intro. to Scheduled creating designs. Students first learn to Bruns- Brunswick CAD/CAM Dept. CADKEY on request. sketch shapes and to develop a feeling wick Community 1234 Mountain Rd. On-site courses for visualization. Sketching extends College Moncton, N.B. available. points, lines, and planes into 3-D spatial Wayne Ritchie relationships, and correlates height, (506)856-2169 width, and depth with orthographic projection. At the same time, students Ontario Algonquin 200 Lees Av. Intro. to Jan.4-Feb.6 become familiar with the basics of College Ottawa, Ontario CADKEY (M. & W. eve.) CADKEY, learning the menus, key Peter Casey Advanced Feb. ll-Mar. 6 sequences, and immediate-mode (613)594-3888, x5904 CADKEY (M. & W. eve.) commands to produce 2-D geometric System Mar. ll-Apr. 3 shapes. They learn to create three­ Custamizatian (M. & W. eve.) dimensional shapes, initially, by using Ontario CADCORP 250 Consumers Rd. Intra. to Jan. 21-25 the coordinates of corners, extrusion, or Willowdale, Ontario CADKEY by a combination of these methods. Linda Newstead Students examine the relationships and (41 6) 492-5982 Advanced Jan. 16-18 appearance of inclined and oblique CADKEY planes by unfolding their wireframe (Continued on page 18) 17 CADKEYIDataCAD Training in U.S. & Canada (continued) resolution, and the determination of direction cosines. The use of different Provo CTC Location/Contact Course Dates levels, colors, and line types adds to Ontario JB 82 Sprucesida::resc. DataCADI Scheduled their visual understanding. The _ Marketing Fonthill, Ontario DataCADII on request. students also apply engineering • Associates John Bradford graphics to the determination of (416)892-8025 compressive and tensile forces present Klear 465 Rogers St. Intro to Customized in loaded trusses. They even use Concept Peterborough, Ontario CADKEY training CAD KEY to determine the reactions Data John Punshon scheduled necessary for equilibrium of a loaded (705)742-3354 on request. beam. Other engineering properties that students must learn during their Naylor- 1425 Bishop St. Intro. to Scheduled freshman year include the computation McLeod Cambridge, Ontario CADKEY on request. of areas, perimeters, locations of Group Brian Naylor (519) 622-4495 centroids and moments of inertia in two­ dimensional geometric figures. Ryerson 350 Victoria Street Intra. to Jun. 3-4 CADKEY's menus make all of these Polytechnical Toronto, Ontario CADKEY Courses capabilities readily available. Institute, K. Doddridge scheduled C.A.T.E. (416)979-5106 on request. Advanced Computer Graphics Virginia Tech offers an optional Quebec APPLICAD 11956 Blvd. Laurentien Intro. to Courses Montreal, Quebec CADKEY scheduled advanced course in computer graphics to extend the engineering students' WalidHadid on request. capabilities with graphics beyond what (514)336-5959 is required in the freshman course. As CADKEY and DataCAD Training Centers that would like dates of scheduled training courses to appear with the course in engineering graphics, in 3-D W ORLD, contact Peter Mancini, Educational Programs, CADKEY, INC., 440 Oakland Street, the elective, advanced computer­ Manchester, CT 06040-2100. Telephone: (203) 64H)220. FAX: (203) 646-7120. graphics course uses CADKEY exclusively. The students develop Colorado State University Correspondence Course in assembly drawings and exploded-view CADKEY Fundamentals (Versions 1, 1.4, 2.06M, 2.11 , and 3.5), Self­ drawings, as well. They work with all of paced introduction to CAD. Developed by Terry T. Wohlers and Dr. Paul J . CADKEY SOLIDS' modeling Resetarits. Contact: Division of Continuing Education, Colorado State capabilities, including object rotation, University, Spruce Hall, Fort Collins, CO 80523. Telephone: (800) 525-4950. light-source selection, and color changing. The course features Boolean Virginia Tech and CADKEY operations with CADKEY primitives to (Continued from page 17) create objects that make use of union, models into a flat two-dimensional plane. They then construct difference, intersection, and plane paper models of the solid shape from its 2-D representation. operations. The course also covers the This enhances the students' skills at interpreting the spatial importing of drawing files generated on quality of real things. The students also use CAD KEY other CAD systems into CADKEY, and SOLIDS to convert wireframe models into solid the exporting of CADKEY files through representations, with hidden lines removed or with dashed DXF translation. This aspect of the lines. Then, they examine these shaded renderings of 3-D course has proven to be a great help to objects displayed on 2-D media. students at the College of Engineering Each student receives a class project to produce complete, who have courses in other colleges detailed dimensioned drawings of a three-dimensional object. within Virginia Tech that use other This project requires students to use every function and CAD software in their laboratory capability taught in the freshman-level course. assignments. Students learn how to create macros and how to develop CADL Engineering Graphics and the Mechanics of programs to perform repetitive tasks. Statics The advanced computer-graphics course The College of Engineering teaches the mechanics of concludes with designing a three­ statics to freshmen during the same semester as their course dimensional object, processing it in engineering graphics. The graphical solution to typical through a third-party computer-aided­ problems in statics serves as their first example of the manufacturing software, and producing application of computer graphics to solve engineering a physical part on a numerical-control problems. The ease with which students can create and machine. manipulate two-dimensional and three-dimensional entities in Editor's Note: Dr. C.E. Teske is Associ ate CADKEY assists them in seeking graphical solutions to Professor of Engi neering Fundamentals at Virginia typical problems of 2-D and 3-D vector addition, component Polytechnic Institute. 18 Safe Departure approved by the Army before European materials, produced (Continued from page 20) production of the heavier prototypes, and performed tests. container started. The new They certified the German He added welds to the wire­ lighter container, with minor contractor. They also quickly frame model to help locate changes, passed all Army revised the drawings on site. It difficult welding angles and to criteria. was an enormous production find the total linear length of On-site Changes for task to produce more than 80 weld for the container, weld Production containers per day, with each strength, etc. Mter a U.S. Government­ container having over 825 linear Using CADKEY, the design Owned Contractor-Operated inches of weld. Quality control engineer was able to design the (GOCO) facility in Germany was of the production process was of SSC and produce the Technical selected to produce more than paramount importance due to Data Package (documentation) 5,500 of these containers, a team the sensitivity of the items to be all by himself, just as fast as, but from USADACS went to transported. with fewer mistakes than, if he Germany to help produce First-article-test (FAT) had worked with the results and changes in usual team of an engi- the production process neer and several generated several drafting personneL engineering change proposals (ECPs). The Doubts about team incorporated all of Prototype the changes on site, When the USADACS using CAD KEY on a team built the first proto­ laptop computer. The type of the SSC, the dot-matrix printer engineers weren't produced hard copy of entirely sure that it the changes in the could withstand the drawing package on pressure criteria, let llxl5-inch paper. The alone the two-foot-drop data went by fax back requirements on the to the United States for corners and faces of the configuration­ container. When management approval. pressurizing a square The engineering box, the box tends to divisions at USADACS become spherical. How­ Jerome H. Krohn, Acting Chief of the Validation Engineering had responded promptly Division of the Logisitics Engineering Office of the U.S. Army, ever, the first prototype places wooden, vertical· restraint dunnage into a Secondary to this major inter­ had a 1I4-inch steel-plate Steel Container loaded with inert, 8·inch, separate· loading national commitment, body that weighed more projectiles during a test at the U.S. Army Defense Ammu· thanks to the portability than 800 pounds, and it nition Center and School, Savanna, Illinois. of both the on-site did indeed pass all criteria. additional prototypes and to project-team members and their It was pressurized up to 15 verify acceptable differences in tools (a laptop computer, pounds per square inch gauge. materials due to the metric vs. CADKEY and CADKEY With a reliable container as a American Society of Testing SOLIDS). The USADACS' baseline, the USADACS Materials (ASTM) equivalents. engineering divisions have been engineers decided to output The Technical Data Package moving from "on-the-board" another wire-frame design to required complete conversion, design to CAD since 1987. They COSMOS"', a finite-element including the incorporation of currently have more than 20 analysis program developed by both English and German notes. workstations, with 286 and 386 Structural Research and A small team of five engineers, processors, that can all Analysis Corporation of Santa responsible for management, successfully run CADKEY 386 or Monica, California. They wanted design, testing and quality CADKEY 3 (Version 3.55M). to find out if this design could assurance, hand-carried their pass the pressure requirements. testing equipment, two laptop Editor's Note: Ken Dreier is a The results were encouraging. computers, and a dot-matrix mechanical engineer at the U.S. Army Local approval was granted to printer capable of printing on Defense Ammunition Center and School, produce another lighter llx15-inch paper to Germany to Savanna, Illinois. Ken served as the container of 3/16-inch steel, accomplish their high-priority designer and project engineer for the weighing 670 pounds, in hopes of assignment. Secondary Steel Containers project. having the lighter model The USADACS team selected

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by Ken Dreier being used to transport the USADACS project which was chemical shells. completely designed using As the two ships safely CADKEY's three-dimensional pulled out of the harbor of Very Stringent Deadline capabilities. Nordenham in the Federal When USADACS was A team of engineers Republic of Germany on initially assigned the task of formulated several different September 21 , 1990, many designing a fi ve pounds-per­ design concepts. After one week, German natives, U.s. square-inch-gauge, vapor-proof they sent a concept to government officials, Army USADACS' engineering soldiers, and federal supervisors. The design civilian employees was approved, and a ' breathed a sigh of relief. design engineer started The smooth operation of making the wire-frame the ships' departure was model, using the then the final segment in the current military version removal of 100,000 pro­ of CAD KEY. jectiles (435 tons) of The SSC is a double­ chemical, nerve-agent weld steel box, with a flat artillery shells from gasket and 28 bolts to German soil. The hold the door securely to chemical shells, which the flange. The design had been stored inside engineer created the the heart of Germany wire-frame model with for more than two different pieces on decades, are now slated different levels, and with for safe destruction. each level grouped. He Many of the em- output the completed ployees of the U. S. wire-frame model to Army Defense Ammu- CADKEY SOLIDS, nition Center and School Wireframe model in CADKEY of the which he used to Secondary S teel Container. (USADACS), located on calculate the SSC's mass the Mississippi River near container, there was little time properties and to produce four Savanna, Illinois, also sighed allotted to the project. rendered views of each part of with relief. They had received Nevertheless, they were able to the box. Then, he dimensioned the assignment from the U.S. design the SSC, have a prototype the rendered views, and added Army Chemical Research, built, and successfully pass all borders to complete the Development and Engineering testing requirements in just over drawings. Center (CRDEC), Aberdeen four weeks. CADKEYand The designer expanded the Proving Ground, Maryland, to CADKEY SOLIDS played an SSC's analysis in CADKEY design, test, approve, and integral part in the first two SOLIDS to include determining monitor the manufacturing of weeks of design. The SSC its total weight, its external the vapor-tight Secondary Steel turned out to be the very first surface area for painting, etc. Containers (SSCs) that were (Continued on page 19) 20 0000 3004