The IEEE, Kansas City Section
Home \| Meetings	Address_Changes Education Gen'l Info	Jobs Newsletters Officers


Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IEEE Kansas City Section September Meeting

Section Meeting

Thursday, September 21, 2000

Sponsored by the KC Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society

Please note: When you register by the deadline, you get a discount. If you register and don't cancel by the deadline, you are basically ordering a meal the Section must pay for. Thus, if we can't sell your spot to someone who did not register, we will bill you for that meal. The odds of reselling are poor, as nearly everyone registers by the deadline these days.

E-mail dinner @ ieee-kc.org

Topic: AutoCAD, Actrix, and other drawing tools (tentative)
Place: Wyndham Garden Hotel, I-435 & Metcalf Ave, Overland Park, KS. (913)383-2550.
Dir: Exit I-435 @ Metcalf Ave N. Go 1/4 km to 107th St. Turn right. Take immed. right @ BP. Go 100 meters, hotel’s to your left.

Speaker: Chuck Spink, P.E., Senior Product Manager with Autodesk!

Times: No-Host Social Hr: 5:30P - 6:30 PM
Action Item mtg:.........6:00PM - 6:13PM
Dinner Hour:..............6:30PM - 7:30PM
Presentation:.............7:30PM - 8:30PM

Charge: Presentation is free. Dinner $20/17 for members & guests, students $12/10. The 2nd price reflects registration discount. Cancel by Monday noon to avoid meal charge.

Program: Autodesk will tell us about their Actrix product, and they'll show us where the different CAD products fit in the hierarchy of drawing complexity. The goal of this presentation is to remove some of the confusion about CAD products in general and highlight Actrix in particular. Actrix users include Sprint, Black & Veatch, and other companies with members in the KC Section.

Here's Chuck's tentative outline:

Introduction
General Overview of Actrix (and Technical Drawing/Diagramming)
Use matrix comparison of ACAD vs. LT vs. Actrix
General Actrix Demo, highlighting
DWG interoperability
*drag-n-drop functionality
*interactive shape authoring/editing environment
*reporting
*customization (API and events)
Industry Specific Demo's
* Telco
* Engineering Automation
* Electrical (possible third-part add-on)
Q&A

Dinner reservation deadline is noon, Monday, September 18. Leave Sal Cerda a message at dinner @ ieee-kc.org or 913-534-2948 with your name, company name, and daytime ph#. A reservation gets you a discount on your dinner, and makes things easier all around.

Contact the Webmaster (Mark Lamendola) at writer @ ieee.org. If you would like to be the Webmaster, I am looking for someone to replace me. Please contact me if you're interested.

This is an association Website. Do not phone us about link exchanges, SEO services, marketing services, or other commercial services or products.

Last updated May 04, 2008

Return to the IEEE Kansas City Section home page