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News Release from: EDA Exhibitions | Subject: Solid Modelling 2004
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 January 2004
Solid Modelling 2004 Exhibition and
Seminars
Solid Modelling 2004 Exhibition and Seminars
Visitors and exhibitors at past Solid Modelling Shows will have felt a twinge of sadness at seeing TV news pictures last year showing the National Motorcycle Museum going up in flames The Museum had proved an ideal launch pad for the show back in '99 and was a popular regional conference centre for Midlands companies
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 19 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Moreover, the blaze also wiped out many of the precious vintage and classic motorcycles kept in the venue's world-famous collection.
A more modest consequence was that Solid Modelling 2004 has had to leave its home of the past 5 years to move nearby to the NEC.
The show will now be staged in the Pavilion Hall on March 31st and April 1st.
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One benefit from the changed venue will come in the fact that both show and seminars will now be contained within a large single-floor hall.
For the first time at 'Solid Modelling' the exhibits, demonstration suites, restaurant, bar, coffee area and seminar theatre etc will all be closely integrated.
Those travelling to SM2004 by car are recommended to head for the NEC's S3 car parking area.
They will have the choice then of jumping on one of the NEC shuttle buses or walking to the hall.
Car park S3 is approximately 300 metres from the Pavilion.
Exhibitors.
'Solid Modelling' claims to be the only event in the UK calendar when all the leaders in the CAD/CAM/CAE world turn out together.
Vendors have been known to complain that they're faced with too much competition with being surrounded by rivals, but for the visitor it provides a rare opportunity to evaluate and compare alternative solutions with all the evidence on hand.
It's also helpful that many of the booths will have technical personnel on board as well as sales people and so there can be greater scope to get down to nitty gritty issues.
It's interesting to note that there's an average 90% change in audience at 'SM' year on year and 40% new companies sending representatives.
There's no question the market is now a mature one but there's plenty of 'churn' still apparently.
SolidWorks, PTC, UGS, IBM and Autodesk will all be showing their latest releases and Adobe are installing a mini-theatre to showcase Acrobat 6.0 Professional and the hugely popular PDF format used by the engineering community for sharing and archiving drawings.
Over the past ten years the PDF format has made a major impact on the engineering market, without a major push from Adobe.
Now, with Acrobat 6.0 Professional, the latest version of its authoring product, Adobe has developed specific features for engineering users, with some CAD vendors including PTC already having thrown their weight behind PDF.
Along with the MCAD headliners, SM2004 will also have a strong 'supporting' cast of specialist vendors along with software developers who have dedicated 'partner' applications that work within major 'core' software systems to boost performance.
With 3D modelling packages now making it increasingly easy for users to pass on their model data to create prototypes the show attracts a good many of the suppliers who offer prototyping solutions to buy or to pull down as a service facility.
Seminars.
With the seminars now running directly alongside the exhibitions area it was felt that a free 'walk-on-walk off' format would be more helpful to visitors who wanted to 'cherry pick' sessions.
Each day, will have its own distinct theme and the programme will shortly be available at www.solidmodelling.co.uk.
A full day of 'classes' will be hosted by the RPMA during the rapid product development stream on day 2 (April 1st).
Topics covered will be RAPID PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS - Graham Tromans, University of Loughborough Rapid Manufacturing Group.
RAPID PROTOTYPE APPLICATIONS Joel Segal, University of Nottingham.
RAPID CASTING, Richard Rogers, Rolls Royce and MEDICAL APPLICATIONS, Richard Bibb, University of Wales DR.
For day 1 (March 31st) the programme is being hosted by MCAD magazine and has been based on topics nominated by the magazines readers during a recent poll.
The agenda is presently being finalised and will draw the best entries from a 'call' covering topics including:.
- Workstation optimisation - Getting the most out of your CAD hardware.
- Data Translation and legacy data - Managing data from disparate CAD systems.
- 2D documentation.
- Portable data formats and documentation tools.
- Real time visualization/rendering - Bringing designs to life earlier on in the design process.
- Knowledge-based design - Knowledge capture, re-use, and engineering to order.
- Best practices.
- Systems integration/engineering business processes.
- Viewing and collaboration.
- Sharing engineering data across the Enterprise.
- Implementing a PDM system - Avoiding the pitfalls.
- Data security - Protecting your intellectual property within a collaborative environment.
- A guide to analysis - Best practices for engineers and specialists.
'Solid Modelling 2004' will be held at the NEC Pavilion Hall on March 31st/April 1st 2004.
For fuller details and to pre-register visit www.solidmodelling.co.uk.
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