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Title	Description	Screen Capture		Full Download
A.J. Hoyt's Spring	Articulated spring for quick animation			Model provided courtesy of A.J. Hoyt
Riffell's Cam Plate	This part was created "live" at the 10/04/07 meeting			Model provided courtesy of Dan J. Riffell
Rick Chin's Absurdly Ideal Presentation	This is a strategy for product development that has been proven to work			PowerPoint® presentation courtesy of Rick Chin
Dan's Part	Creating a stepped face on the end of a ratchet engagement		Watch the animation in eDrawings!	Idea courtesy of Dan Shannon
Helical Techniques    over 1 second vs  0.15 second	Is it "better" to use a helical sweep or a surface sweep?Use Feature Statistics to compare the rebuild times!			Models courtesy of Fred Zobel
Patent Drawings	Use SolidWorks to make patent drawings the easy way - presentation by Steve Katsaros of RevoPower, Inc			1.3 MB   Try google patent search! Visit US Patent & Trademark Office
Menus, Tool Bars, Desktop Setup	Presentation material from Kevin Van Liere on mastering your desktop. Includes useful macros!			1 MB
Sheet Metal	Presentation material from Gerald Davis on nested flats, mirrored features, plating, inspection standards & more			7.5 MB
PhotoWorks 101	Presentation material from Marlon Banta on PW2006			30.4 MB PhotoWorks 101
Drawings	Presentation material from Kevin Van Liere for the SWUGN Tech Summit  Includes macros that Kevin demonstrated!			426 KB
Sheet Metal Tips & Tricks	Presentation material from Gerald Davis for the SWUGN Tech Summit  Includes gauge tables used by DSM Manufacturing for actual production!			8,144 KB
Exercise your Multibody	Presentation material from Caleb Stoll for the April 2006 meeting		19 KB	976 KB SW2006
Rotary Plunger	Demonstration of a helical cam mate		167 KB	1,201 KB  SW2006
Fan Blade	A BMP image of a drawing of a fan blade is used to sketch forming tools to create a sheet metal fan.		142 KB	2,374 KB SW2006
Equations	Ramon Busboom's presentation at the 6/9/05 meeting covered tips on using equations.  The zip file includes his power point slides, solidmodels, and some extras.			2,547 KB
Dart Gun	This assembly was used by Robert McDonald on 4/7/05 during his tips & tricks presentation on Animator.  Can you add animation to pull the plunger, rotate the view, shoot the dart, and watch it fly?		280 KB	3,204 KB
Compression Spring	This is an example of an animated spring, courtesy of Robert McDonald. There's more to it than meets the eye!		136 KB	78KB
Box Puzzle	This assembly is made from 6 copies of 1 part.  The part has 6 configurations and uses equations to make it easy to resize the toy		68 KB	3,147 KB
The COSUG logo	How did we make our logo? Download the files to see the details.		123 KB	3,674 KB