Hey Everyone! I'm hoping to finish out the year with a meeting you will not want to miss! We have a very special presenter making a long trek to the East coast and stopping by for us to rock some knowledge! Ed Eaton will be in the House!!

The BREP: The most important thing about surface and solid modeling that no one ever seems to talk about

If you’ve been around SOLIDWORKS modeling for a while you might have heard a passing reference to the BREP.  But what is it? This session is going to describe the BREP (Boundary Representation Model) using easy to understand language and examples.  Ed will talk about the 3 face types (analytical, algorithmic, and ruled) in a way that explains all sorts of weird things you’ve been seeing when using SOLIDWORKS. We will explain terms like “topology” and “Boolean” and why that drives some of your successes using surface modeling where modeling exclusively in solids fail.  Ed is going to show some weird and WILDLY useful exploits made possible by understanding the BREP.  This is a fun, VERY important peak under the hood of every model you have ever created that will educate you on how to solve problems and help the models you make in the future be better.

About the Presenter: Ed Eaton

Ed Eaton is a Sr. Industrial Designer with over 30 years of industry experience, with the past 24+ years spent working in a multidisciplinary environment as an active designer, project manager, mentor, and part owner of the DiMonte Group product development consultancy located in the western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.

A user of SOLIDWORKS software since 1998, Ed Eaton has made a point of sharing useful tips and discoveries in popular sessions at over 18 SOLIDWORKS World conferences and at local SOLIDWORKS user groups all around the United States.

Ed's presentations are well known in the user community for exploring then exploiting how SOLIDWORKS thinks to get through tricky problems in product design through non-obvious means.

UPDATE: We now have our 2nd presentation and everyone should take away something from this! Tony has stepped up to present for us after a being on the road and is going to us schooled on Assemblies!

Large Assemblies Best Practices - Tony Bucchino, Elite Application engineer, CSWE from Trimech

During the Presentation you will learn how to identify the culprits that affect your assembly performance, such as file size, the number of components, number of mates, type of mates, number of update holders, the type of in-context relations, imported parts, or tessellation settings

Of course, we'll have the usual user group food and giveaways so don't miss out and tell your CAD friends and coworkers!

See you all soon!!

If you're driving there, park in LOT 45 and it's a short distance to the room.