Panama City Beach SOLIDWORKS User Group Meeting

Written by Danielle Brown on February 13th 2018.

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We’re sponsoring the next Panama City Beach SOLIDWORKS user group meeting (PCB SWUG) which takes place on Tuesday 27th February 2018.

When: Tuesday 27th February 2018.
Where: The event will be held at TechFarms, 7506 Holley Circle, Panama City Beach, FL 32408

What’s on the Agenda?

The next Panama City Beach SOLIDWORKS User Group meeting will be Tuesday, February 27 at 5 p.m. at TechFarms’ facility in the McElvey Commercial Park across from the Navy base.

They will have Domino’s pizza for dinner and lots of great giveaways from their sponsors SOLIDWORKS, RAPID, Xometry, DriveWorks and paperlessPARTS.

Their host, Steve Millaway, has invited them to his facility, which is an entrepreneur incubator. TechFarms’ mission is to help create more private sector technology companies for Northwest Florida. In the process, they hope to create more jobs, grow our workforce, and make our communities more attractive to larger tech companies that will bring even more jobs.

Ben Potter, Application Engineer for Concepts In Production, LLC, will present “What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2018: Core Functionality.”

This presentation will be a look into the new and improved features that users interact with on a daily basis. The presentation will be spent working in SOLIDWORKS, with a focus on Parts, Assemblies, and Drawings.

SOLIDWOKRS 2018 aims to improve productivity and empower the user. With enhancements and new Features like 3D Sketch mirroring, Tab and Slot Feature, Linear Pattern Rotation, Smart Explode Lines, and much more.

Tommy Ray, Application Engineer for ModernTech, will present a deep dive into “Solidworks CAM.” SOLIDWORKS 2018 What’s New introduced SOLIDWORKS CAM to the offering. SOLIDWORKS CAM is integrated into the SOLIDWORKS CAD software and allows you to use 3D models to create the CAM features and programs for your CNC machines.

From Automatic Feature Recognition to a Post Process code editor, this tool will allow you to take your 3D models from a virtual state to a physical state in no time. SOLIDWORKS CAM also will alert you when changes have been made so updates to models are not an issue.

Registration is free, sign up to secure your place!