CADKEY PARAMETRICS is Released!

View CADKEY MAGAZINE On-line at www.cadkey.com Vol.2 Spring 2000
CADKEY Corporation
Acquires Catia ® , Pro/E ®
and UG ®
Translators for
Expanded Interoperability
Excimer Laser Pioneer
Spectranetics Uses CADKEY
To Design Life-Saving Products
CADKEY PARAMETRICS
is Released!
See CADKEY 99 and CADKEY PARAMETRICS at
EASTEC 2000, Springfield, MA on May 23-25, 2000

A Letter from the President
Dear Customer,
Contents
3 Web News
4-5 CADKEY in the News
6-7 CADKEY in Action
8-9 Feature Article –
Spectranetics Corporation
10-11 CADKEY PARAMETRICS
Ships
12 CADKEY Classroom
13 Tech Note
14 Educational Corner
15 CADKEY Community
Announcements
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Editors
Belinda Jones
HiTech Marketing LLC
Lizabeth A. Rombek
Marketing Communications Manager
Printed on Recycled Paper
During the National Design Engineering Show in March, we were
overwhelmed with the customer interest in our CADKEY PARAMETRICS
module and the newest version of CADKEY. I would like to thank the
hundreds of CADKEY users who stopped by our booth and those who
attended our National User Group meeting held during the trade show.
CADKEY PARAMETRICS, a powerful companion software module for CADKEY 99, is now
Robert W. Bean
President and CEO
released and will begin shipping shortly. The addition of this technology clearly gives the CADKEY
product line an unrivaled depth of design functionality in the midrange CAD marketplace. Second
to none in flexibility and interoperability, CADKEY is the most fully-resourced CAD program for
product development and manufacturing applications. We invite you to sample our streaming
videos illustrating CADKEY PARAMETRICS at www.cadkey.com/gallery/video.
Continuing our efforts to remain the world’s most interoperable CAD software, in June of 2000
we will expand our product line up by introducing direct translators for use with Pro/Engineer ® ,
Catia ® and Unigraphics ® files. These affordable add-ons can help you exchange data precisely
and easily with your customers that are using these formats.
Our sights are firmly set on CADKEY Version 20— the singlemost major release of CADKEY ever
in its fifteen year history. This significant release has been in the works for a three year period. We
will introduce an all new architecture that incorporates all the features and functions users have
asked for…smart assemblies, unlimited levels, new 2D drafting tools, improved layout mode and
dimensioning, high speed graphics and printing/plotting, and more requested user enhancements.
CADKEY Version 20 is scheduled for release in the Fall of 2000. We know this software will be a
crowd pleaser for all our customers.
The CADKEY Web site is the most content-rich source of information for the CADKEY
Community. The site is constantly being updated with news, streaming video demonstrations,
new value-added products and services in the Web Store, and much more. We encourage new
users and our veteran CADKEY power users to interact via our CADKEY User Forum. Take a
few minutes to check out our User Gallery of CADKEY images and User Profiles from very diverse
industries. And don’t forget to sign up for CADKEY e-News, our online publication delivered
right to your desktop.
In the coming year, I strongly urge you to join our LiveCasts featuring daily demonstrations and
regularly scheduled CADKEY CyberClasses via the Internet. Registration information for e-Demos
and CADKEY CyberClasses can be found at www.cadkey.com.To participate in the real-time
e-Sessions, users must sign up prior to the event.
Enjoy CADKEY 99, CADKEY PARAMETRICS, and most of all, the upcoming Summer season.
Best Regards,
Robert W. Bean, P.E.
President and CEO, CADKEY Corporation
The Senior Management Team at CADKEY
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about the CADKEY product line and related products and services utilized
for mechanical engineering applications. We welcome suggestions and
comments. Please send your feedback to: editor@cadkey.com
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WEB NEWS
CADKEY Website Features Streaming
Demos on CADKEY 99 Using RealPlayer ®
Video demonstrations of CADKEY 99’s newest features
have never been easier to view. Using Realplayer software,
CADKEY users can observe the newest innovations in
CADKEY 99 including the Body Healer, Advanced Blending
features, new solid modeling Local Operators, and the product’s
superior overall interoperability. If you have a 28K Internet
connection or higher, you do not have to download the demo to
view it. The streaming demonstrations are a perfect complement
to CADKEY LiveCast Demos. Check out a variety of topics at
www.cadkey.com/gallery/video.
New – CADKEY PARAMETRICS
Part 2 of 3 Overview Now Available
This streaming video covers the following Sketching topics:
Planes, Sketches, and Constraints. Special sketching tools in
CADKEY PARAMETRICS offer significant enhancements to the
basic task of two-dimensional
drawing and can be
applied to more than just
solid modeling. Sketch
entities and dimensions
utilize animated “click and
drag” placement and editing
capabilities for improved
visualization and a reduced
number of menu selections.
Dimensions and geometric
constraints (such as coincident, parallel, tangent and equal size)
hold or drive the desired form of a sketch profile during editing.
Sketching also provides a quick means of creating simple 2D
drawings. Visit the GALLERY section of www.cadkey.com to
view our wide array of streaming videos!
Algor Holds Live Webcasts Every Tuesday
Featuring InCAD Plus for CADKEY
Algor is now hosting live one-hour Webcasts for
cybervisitors who want to learn more about Algor’s InCAD Plus
FEA software for mechanical engineers. These free, public
Webcasts give CADKEY users the opportunity to see Algor
software in action with CADKEY 99. After the live broadcast,
Webcasts are also made available for replay for a personal
screening at any time.
The one-hour Webcast covers general news about InCAD Plus
for CADKEY and the host answers frequently asked technical
questions received by telephone or e-mail before and during the
broadcast. The main presentation shows how to access InCAD Plus
from CADKEY and covers a variety of FEA capabilities including
full analysis tools within CADKEY, feature suppression tools,
surface and solid meshing options, and the report Wizard and
VRML. Additional topics are working with assemblies, surface
loading, applying boundary conditions, performing analysis
and reviewing the results. The Webcast also includes a panel
discussion on the main topic. To access Algor Webcasts, go
to www.algor.com/webcast.
CADKEY WEB CONNECTION Adds
PlotFast for Windows
CADKEY Annual Update Contract (AUC) Customers can
take advantage of PlotFast for Windows, another free value-added
technology available through the CADKEY WEB CONNECTION at
www.cadkey.com. PlotFast for Windows is an offline utility that
works specifically with the CADKEY Uniplot format (.PLT). This utility
is beneficial for CADKEY users who have older vector plotters and/or
plotters not supported in Windows. PlotFast
is also useful for companies who need vector
HPGL output for desktop publishing. AUC
customers with the DOS PlotFast version can
now upgrade to the Windows version at no
charge. PlotFast for Windows features advanced batch plotting of .PLT
files and allows users to easily assign different plot configurations.
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The CADKEY WEB CONNECTION gives AUC customers access
to free valuable resources such as downloadable programs,
software utilities, and other special items to increase productivity
when using CADKEY. Active CADKEY AUC clients can take
advantage of these programs after registering with their
contract number.
Free Downloadable Viewer For CADKEY 99
The CADKEY 99 Viewer is an easy and convenient way to view
CADKEY 99 partfiles. Great for CADKEY users and non-CAD users in
your enterprise, the CADKEY 99 Viewer is free of charge, less than
4 MB in size, and can be downloaded from the CADKEY website. The
Viewer’s popular Windows interface makes it simple to use by departments
outside of engineering, such as marketing, sales, support and
service personnel. These departments do not have to learn or install a
full CADKEY system in order to view a partfile.
The CADKEY Viewer has many features to let you closely examine
a design, but won’t let you change the file in any way. Users can print
or plot to all Windows-supported devices from the Viewer. When
viewing a 3D model, you can measure any size/distance and verify
entity attributes and positions. You can also use standard CADKEY pan,
zoom and rotate tools to view a CADKEY model. Toggle between 3D
model mode and any drawing layouts. The Viewer has full support for
all CADKEY entity types and text.
You can also open multiple files at the same time with MDI
(Multiple Document Interface), as well as export images to a Windows
Metafile or raster/vector clipboard. Minimum system requirements are
Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0; 16 MB RAM; 6 MB hard drive space for
installation; and 640 x 480 resolution.
CADKEY eNews - Delivered to Your Desktop
CADKEY eNews is a free monthly online compilation of CADKEY
top stories, upcoming events, product announcements, CADKEY
community and industry news. CADKEY users and those interested in
receiving this free cybernews source can sign up by visiting the
CADKEY website at www.cadkey.com. It is easy to subscribe—
simply enter your email address in the CADKEY eNews section at the
bottom of the CADKEY home page at www.cadkey.com.

In the News
CADKEY PARAMETRICS is Released!
Limited-time Promotions -
Upgrade Now and Save $$$
Parametric modeling inside CADKEY is now a reality, and a
phenomenal new option! CADKEY PARAMETRICS fully integrates
complete parametric definition and editing of dimension-driven
solid models into the award-winning CADKEY software. Providing
an unrivaled depth of design functionality, CADKEY 99 and its
companion CADKEY PARAMETRICS offer unique hybrid combinations
of feature-based solid modeling and impressive freeform
hybrid solid modeling to give you the ultimate toolset for product
design and manufacturing applications. CADKEY PARAMETRICS
will sell for $ 1,195 USD for CADKEY 99 customers and is free of
charge to all CADKEY DESIGN SUITE customers.
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PROMOTIONS
• Save $ 200! CADKEY 99 users can purchase CADKEY
PARAMETRICS for just $ 995 USD.
• Save $ 400! Customers with previous CADKEY
versions can Upgrade to CADKEY 99 and get a one year
CADKEY AUC* plus CADKEY PARAMETRICS for only
$ 1,995 USD.
• Save over $ 250 ! CADKEY 99 customers can Upgrade
to CADKEY DESIGN SUITE (FastSURF, DRAFT-PAK,
CADKEY PARAMETRICS, and all-inclusive AUC*)
for only $ 1,995 USD.
These Special Introductory Offers End September 1, 2000! Call
your CADKEY VAR for Additional Promotions and Details!
Note: Prices may vary outside the US and Canada
* AUC = Annual Update Contract
CADKEY Financial Update
by Robert C. Macomber - Chief Financial Officer
Since founded in 1989, CADKEY Corporation
(formerly known as Baystate Technologies, Inc.)
has seen increasing revenues every year. The
third quarter of our current fiscal year ended on
March 31, 2000, and I am happy to report that
our sales are good and earnings are up from
the prior quarter. Our balance sheet remains healthy and our
cash position is strong. The heavy investments we have been
making in product development over the past year and a half
are beginning to drive our sales figures. CADKEY 99 has already
proven to be a robust, stable release; CADKEY PARAMETRICS is
ready; CADKEY 20 is in alpha, and many new offerings are
about to appear on our CADKEY Webstore. All signs point to a
very good upcoming quarter!
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CADKEY's Superior Interoperability
Expands with Three New Data
Translators
CADKEY Corporation announced that this summer it will
be releasing three new Windows-based translators which will
allow CADKEY users to directly translate Catia ® , Pro/E ® and
Unigraphics ® files. The new Catia translator will offer two-way
translation of geometry and topology data for Catia (*.model /
*.exp) files. The Catia translator supports bi-directional conversions
of solid and surface entities. The Pro/E and Unigraphics
translators will allow those native files to be directly imported
into CADKEY, supporting a uni-directional conversion of solid
and surface entities. Details on pricing and availability will be
announced on our website shortly at www.cadkey.com.
Robert W. Bean Joins Industrial Review
Board for Innovative Advanced Technology
Project Launched by STEP Tools, Inc.
Robert W. Bean, President and CEO of CADKEY Corporation,
and John Ryan, VP of CADKEY Product Development, will
participate as members of STEP Tools, Inc.’s newly formed
Industrial Review Board (IRB) consisting of leading manufacturers,
software vendors and machine tool controls companies.
STEP Tools launched their $2M Advanced Technology Project
(ATP) with a kick-off meeting in December 1999. The ATP
Award was issued to STEP Tools, Inc. by the National Institute of
Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Commerce
Department’s Technology Administration. The ATP award will
fund STEP Tool’s “Model Driven Intelligent Control of Manufacturing”
project, dubbed the Super Model project, to develop an
integrated design-to-manufacturing system that allows numerically
controlled (CNC) machine tools to be controlled by product
design data.
As a member of the Industrial Review Board, Mr. Bean will
participate in an advisory capacity for over a three year period,
as STEP Tools leads the development of a prototype integrated
data-sharing system for design-to-manufacturing. The STEP
Tools Industrial Review Board includes a cross-section of
members from all sectors of the industrial marketplace: NIST
Intelligent Systems Division, IBM Corporation, The Boeing
Company, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, NASA/
GSFC, General Motors Powertrain, Lockhead Martin Tactical
Aircraft Systems, General Electric CR&D, GE Fanuc Automation,
FIPER project, General Dynamics Land Systems, National Center
for Manufacturing Sciences, NIIIP Development Office, Hurco
Machine Tool Products, Monarch Machine Tool Company and
CIMPlus, Inc. CAM software vendors include Gibbs and
Associates and CNC Software, Inc.
Prices reflect US domestic, manufacturer’s suggested retail; prices outside the United States will vary significantly
due to currencies, exchange rates, import tariffs and taxes, value added taxes and shipping and
handling costs. Please contact your local distributor. Resellers are free to establish their own selling prices.

CADKEY Aids in STEP Tools Demonstration
of STEP-NC Progression
STEP Tools will be hosting their second meeting of the
“Super Model” Industrial Review Board on Thursday, May 25
and Friday, May 26, 2000 in Troy, NY. The main focus of this
meeting is to show project progression, and discuss plans for
upcoming deliverables. STEP Tools will show a STEP-NC database
containing all the information required to manufacture the
Super Model test part. In December 1999, STEP Tools previewed
a spreadsheet being used to add ISO 14649 manufacturing
features to STEP geometry. At this second meeting, STEP will
complete the database by adding manufacturing strategy, path
planning and tool selection information. As part of the demonstration,
STEP Tools will also show CADKEY and FBMach Process
Planning system both creating data similar to that required by
ISO 14649 manufacturing standards.
HighRES SuperLite Reverse
Engineering Software Offered
on CADKEY Webstore
CADKEY Corporation continues to expand its Web
commerce by offering the HighRES SuperLite version ($ 995.00
USD) of reverse engineering software on the CADKEY Webstore
at www.cadkey.com/webstore. Online Shoppers will find
HighRES SuperLite both affordable and seamless with
CADKEY 99.
HighRES is now also shipping a new release of advanced
3D reverse engineering software products for CADKEY 99
including HighRES SuperLite,
HighRES SmartPlanes,
HighRES Studio, and two
power modules— HighRES
SuperSpline and HighRES
SmartChain. With a new
CDE (CADKEY Dynamic
Extension) interface,
HighRES products run at
executable speeds while
sharing the CADKEY
database for geometry
definitions and storage.
HighRES has redesigned its
HighRES and CADKEY were used to
3D digitize this hand-sculpted candy icon-driven menu structure
mold that was then sent for mold to reflect its tiered reverse
making to mass produce candies. engineering solutions.
CADKEY users can choose from entry level, mid-level or
advanced HighRES products with two additional modules
specific to digitizer enhancements or unique boundary treatments.
CADKEY users can also create and customize reverse
engineering icons specific to the features they use most often in
a worksession.
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ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Read About CADKEY and CADKEY Users in Industry Publications.
For additional articles, visit www.cadkey.com
MARCH 2000
■ Redesigned Fixture Reduces Turning Time for Tool Manufacturers,
JOB SHOP TECHNOLOGY, March 2000
■ CAD software, QUALITY, March 2000
■ Surfacing Features Make Modeler a Reverse-Engineering Tool,
MACHINE DESIGN, March 23, 2000
■ The Best Program for Learning CAD,
THE TECHNOLOGY TEACHER, March 15, 2000
■ Shipping Noise Out To Sea,
PRODUCT DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT, January 2000
FEBRUARY 2000
■ Designing An Uncommon Stick,
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, February 2000
■ CADKEY Crafts Key Feature for Advanced Solid Modeling,
MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION, February 2000
■ Parametric Capability Enhances CAD Software,
INJECTION MOLDING, February 2000
■ Editor’s Observations: Engineering, START, February 2000
JANUARY 2000
■ Buying into the Technology Factor,
MOLDMAKING TECHNOLOGY, January 2000
■ CADKEY 99 Provides CAD Interoperability, CADALYST, January 2000
■ CAD Software 1, ENGINEERING AUTOMATION REPORT,
January 2000
■ Editor’s Observations: Engineering, START, Bob Rakow, January 2000
■ Redesigned Fixture Reduces Turning Time for Tool Manufacturer,
JOB SHOP TECHNOLOGY, January 2000
■ Engineering the Off-Road Race Truck,
MACHINE DESIGN, January 27, 2000.
■ Creating Constellations with CAD, CAD SYSTEMS, January 2000
■ Handling the Curves: Hybrid Modeling for Complex Surfaces,
DESKTOP ENGINEERING, January 2000
NOVEMBER 1999
■ CAD/CAM Tools Aim at Moldmakers,
MOLDING SYSTEMS, November 1999
■ Wire-frame, 2D CAD, and Solid Modeling in One Design Package,
MACHINE DESIGN, November 1999
■ MMS Shop Talk, MODERN MACHINE SHOP, November 1999
■ Transitioning to 3D is Easier Than You Might Think,
DESIGN NEWS, November 1, 1999
■ High Technology Corporate Notes,
BOSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL, November 18, 1999
OCTOBER 1999
■ Entry level MCAD, COMPUTER GRAPHICS WORLD, October 1999
■ Machine Different Views with NC Programming System,
MODERN MACHINE SHOP
■ Selling the Key to e-CAD, CANADIAN COMPUTER RESELLER,
October 6, 1999
■ CADKEY and Pure Geometry: The Key to Interoperability,
GLOBAL DESIGN NEWS, October 15, 1999

CADKEY Corporation Prepares For the
EASTEC 2000 Trade Show in May
CADKEY Corporation will exhibit at the EASTEC Trade Show held
at the Big E Exposition Center in Springfield, MA from May 23-25,
2000. EASTEC is the largest regional industrial trade show in New
England. You are cordially invited to stop by and get a hands-on
demonstration of the entire CADKEY product line in Booth #6051
in Building 6. EASTEC show hours are 9am to 6pm on Tuesday
and Wednesday, 9am to 5pm on Thursday.
European Road Show Rescheduled
for May 15 – 20, 2000
Mark C. Graveline, VP of Sales, will be the featured guest
speaker at CADKEY User Meetings to be held in in the U.K., France
and Italy. He will be joined by Luca Cariglia, CADKEY Corporation’s
European Sales Representative. Mr. Graveline will speak about the
CADKEY PARAMETRICS product and the “all new” CADKEY 20,
which is scheduled for release later this year. CADKEY customer sites
will also be visited to view first-hand how CADKEY is used in applications
such as moldmaking, intricate jewelry design, machine design
and manufacturing.
The first User Meeting will be hosted by CADKEY Distributor
Radix Solutions Ltd (www.radix-solutions.com), in Dorset, UK on
May 15. The next stop will be on May 16-17 in Cedex, France at the
headquarters of ATLP (www.cadkey-fr.com) the #1 CADKEY Distributor
for Europe last year. The two will conclude their trip in Italy with a
visit to UNOCAD (www.unocad.it), long-time CADKEY Distributor, on
May 18-19. UNOCAD will conduct customer visits as well as a User
Group meeting on May 19th. For more information, visit
www.cadkey.com/events.
“Dr. Walt” / Pro Cad, Inc. Hosts
CADKEY USER EVENT May 4th
On May 4th “Dr. Walt” hosted a CADKEY DAY of CADKEY 99
Productivity Demonstrations, Power Technical Sessions, Super Macros
Session, and a Doctor Walt’s CADKEY Clinic! CADKEY Corp representatives
Mark Graveline (VP Sales), Dale Arseneault (VAR Manager) and
Andy Beaupre (Application Engineer) were there to answer questions
and help demonstrate the new CADKEY PARAMETRICS, as well as
show a sneak preview of the soon-to-be-released CADKEY 20.
Every attendee received a free Doctor Walt’s Book! Pro CAD, Inc.
is an Authorized CADKEY Reseller.
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RECENTLY HELD EVENTS…
Parametrics Module and CADKEY’s Unrivaled Depth
of Design Functionality Highlighted at NDES 2000
CADKEY Corporation presented the all-new CADKEY
PARAMETRICS for CADKEY 99 and CADKEY DESIGN SUITE at
the National Design Engineering Show (NDES), McCormick Place
(Chicago, IL) from March 13 to 16, 2000. Attendees got a birdseye
view of the much
anticipated CADKEY
PARAMETRICS product
that rounds out
CADKEY’s extensive
range of freeform 3D
automation tools. Also
highlighted during the
trade show was
CADKEY’s superior
interoperability and its
essential “collection” of
features needed for the
highest level of data
handling and compatibility:
1) an open hybrid
modeling environment,
2) world class data
translators, 3) core
technology based on
pure geometry, and
4) the most extensive set
of design, edit, and
validation tools in the
PC-CAD industry.
Free hands-on
training sessions for
CADKEY Users were also
hosted by CADKEY
Corporation during the
entire NDES Show.
Training topics included
parametric functionality,
The CADKEY Team at NDES 2000 (L to R):
John Ryan, Dale Arseneault, Vaishali
Mehta, Lizabeth Rombek, and Mark
Graveline.
and power design and
productivity tips and
tricks that take advantage
of CADKEY’s
unique hybrid modeling.
CADKEY was demonstrated on powerful HEWLETT-PACKARD
machines at NDES 2000. Special thanks to the HP team for
their support and sponsorship in providing PC’s for the
CADKEY booth, training and User Group!

National CADKEY User Group Meeting
Held at NDES 2000
CADKEY Corporation hosted the National CADKEY User
Group Meeting at the National Design Engineering Show, on
March 14 and 15, 2000, at McCormick Place North, Chicago.
Mark Graveline, Vice President of Sales, discussed the company’s
exciting, innovative plans for the Year 2000 and beyond. Attendees
enjoyed demonstrations of the newest CADKEY products, as
well as news about the upcoming CADKEY 20 release.
Europeans Get Sneak Peek of CADKEY
PARAMETRICS at CeBit 2000 –
the Largest European Trade Show
CADKEY European Distributors presented the full CADKEY
product line and previewed CADKEY PARAMETRICS at CeBit
2000, held in Hannover, Germany on Feb 24 – March 1 st , 2000.
CeBit, one of the largest computer trade shows in the world, is
held in 25 halls with more than half a million visitors each year.
CADKEY hosted the booth with six
of their major European Distributors:
AGS GmbH (Germany, Switzerland
and Austria), ATLP (France), Radix
Solutions Ltd (UK & Eire), UNOCAD
(Italy), VLECAD (Benelux), and 3E
Praha Engineering (Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria). CADKEY
Corporation’s Mark Graveline, VP of Sales, and Luca Cariglia,
European Sales, were on hand to support the show activities.
The CADKEY product line is represented throughout Eastern and
Western Europe by over 20 Distributors and a network of sub-
Dealers. The product has been translated into many international
language versions including German, French, Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese, Czechoslovakian, Hungarian, Hebrew and more.
Special thanks to longtime CADKEY Distributor AGS GmbH for
coordinating the show and making it a success!
ATLP Features CADKEY Products at
MICAD 2000 in Paris, France
ATLP, CADKEY’s major distributor for France, attended the
MICAD 2000 trade show held in Paris, France on March 28–30,
2000. The company previewed the CADKEY PARAMETRIC
module for the French audience, and demonstrated CADKEY’s
hybrid environment offering wireframe, surface and solid
modeling. ATLP
(www.cadkey-fr.com) has
been recognized as CADKEY
Corporation’s #1 International
Distributor for both
1998 and 1999.
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2000 Listing of Value Added Resellers
North America CADKEY Resellers and Office Locations
3D Tech
OK, KS, MO
3DATUM
GA, TN, AL, TX, FL
A.C.C. System, Inc
NY
Acuity, Inc.
OR
Advanced Business Systems, Inc. IL
Albright Design Solutions CA
All Set Manufacturing Solutions CA
Anderson CAD/CAM Inc. MN
Cad Wire
Canada
CAE Systems Inc.
MI
CIM Solutions & Networking MI, OH
Cincinnati CAD Systems
OH
Computer-Source of LA, Inc. LA
Cornerstone Technology
MI, Canada
Distance Engineering
MI
High-Res, Inc.
CA
Marchetti Design & Engineering MA, NY
Maven Micro Systems
CA, CO
Mid-West Tech
IA
New Tech!
WI
Olmsted Engineering
MI
OptiPro Systems
NY
Precision CAD/CAM Systems MD, NY, PA, VA
ProCAD Inc.
NJ
Quality Inspection
CA
Quannon CAD Systems
MN
Software Ventures
MI
Tech Ed Concepts, Inc.
MA, NH
Tech-Net
WA
Tri-Tech Solutions, Inc.
NC
Unitec, Inc
CT
International CADKEY Resellers and Territories
3E Praha Engineering
Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia
AGS
Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Altec Research International Taiwan, Hong Kong, China
AME
Sweden
Arqui Punto Systems
Spain
ATLP
France
CAD Design
Denmark
CAG CAD/CAM
Turkey
Caliber Engineering
Israel
Champion Tool
Thailand
Computek
Taiwan, Hong Kong, China
Daesung Industrial
Korea
DIO Enterprises
Norway
EuroCAD Ltd
Hungary
Hi-Smart International
Taiwan, Hong Kong, China
IME Trading Co.
Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
Kubotek Corporation
Japan
Mecad Systems
South Africa
NewCAM
Portugal
Optim Systems
Greece
PB Systems/MET Cad
Turkey
PCS / GB Tool / ECS
New Zealand
Powerway de Mexico
Mexico
Radix
United Kingdom
Sia Colla
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia
Sigemaz
Portugal
Specialized Technical Services Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam
TechCadd Technologies
Brazil
Unocad
Italy
VLECAD
Belgium, Netherlands, Holland
Zenex
Finland
For more details visit www.cadkey.com

CADKEY
Feature Story
CADKEY Helps Excimer Laser
Pioneer Spectranetics Corp. to
Design Life-Saving Products
Heart pacemakers save many lives, and doctors annually
implant them, along with their defibrillator lead wires, in some
500,000 patients worldwide. However, removing a defective
pacemaker or defibrillator leads could cost lives as well.
An installed heart pacer has from one to three lead wires
running from the pacemaker to the patient’s heart. After a
period of time, the pacer or the wire leads
may fail and need to be replaced.
“Doctors used to leave the wires in
place because, over time, scar tissue
grows over them and they can become
difficult and hazardous to remove,” said
Paul Hollendorfer, laser systems engineer
for The Spectranetics Corporation
(NASDAQ:SPNC), Colorado Springs, CO,
one of the first and most successful
companies to develop photo-ablative
excimer lasers for cardiovascular use.
“Doctors were reluctant to extract them
because the old kind of retractors required
a lot of force, which could tear arteries
and cause other dangerous complications.
So they tended to leave them, and place
new ones in the patient as well.”
Then, a pacemaker manufacturer recalled the leads from
some of their pacemakers because the tips of the leads could
split – leaving sharp wire ends that possibly could puncture the
heart sac. Several patients died, but even with such a frightening
problem, doctors did not want to remove the leads because they
believed removing them would be as dangerous as leaving them
in place.
Spectranetics,
manufacturers of the
CVX 300 excimer
laser and laser procedure
catheters, knew
they could core out the
leads safely. So their
engineers designed the
Spectranetics Laser
Sheath (SLS) catheter to
solve the hazardous
problem.
Hollendorfer describes the SLS as a hollow tube containing a
ring of optic fibers and a radio-opaque tip at the end to allow
the doctor to visualize the position of the device in the body by
means of fluoroscopy. “The physician threads the catheter over
the wire he wants to remove until the SLS hits resistant scar or
other unwanted tissue. At that point, the doctor fires the laser
and ablates – or dissolves – the scar
tissue and the SLS continues down the
wire. It may encounter one or many
binding sites, and it advances and
ablates until the wire comes free.”
The old lead removal procedure had
a limited success rate – between 60%
and 65% – underscoring physicians’
fears of undertaking lead removal. In
sharp contrast, since its introduction
with full FDA approval in September
1998, the SLS has proved 94% successful.
“Our biggest hope,” said
Hollendorfer, “now that we’ve provided
a more effective way to remove old
pacer leads, is that doctors will have
them removed routinely – eliminating
the unnecessary risks of infection and
obstructive scar tissue that result from leaving them in place.”
In June 1999, the FDA listed the SLS as one of 21 “significant
medical device breakthroughs” cleared by the agency in its
1998 fiscal year.
Spectranetics uses CADKEY for product design. They use
the CAD program for designing and refining their core product,
the CVX 300 excimer laser, and to document and manufacture
catheter products, including the SLS. Hollendorfer explained,
“Catheter design is esoteric. The components seem straightforward
– plastic tubes, bundles of fiber optics and some form of
radio-opaque tip. But they vary widely in design, depending
upon use. So we design physical prototypes by hand on the
R&D floor and then do assembly drawings with CADKEY, as well
as using the CAD program to document the design.”
The company gets many of its product ideas from the
customer. “A doctor may say that he wants to do some specific
thing, but has no way to do it. Our designers then try to
visualize how that function can be performed better by the laser
than by current technology,” he said. “With the SLS, we knew
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that the leads were
embedded in scar tissue, so
we had to work out how to
use the laser to remove the
scar tissue safely. We
needed a cutting action –
which dictated how to
arrange the optical fibers.”
In addition, when
encasing the fiber in a
plastic tube, “you can
This image depicts a catheter ablating an unwanted blockage inside
an artery which has been previously treated by an arterial stent.
U.S. News & World
Report’s 1999 ranking of
America’s Best Hospitals
have the Spectranetics
CVX 300 laser installed:
Cleveland Clinic, Mayo
Clinic, Brigham and
Women’s Hospital, Duke
University Medical Center,
Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Texas Heart Institute,
produce different degrees of stiffness and flexibility,”
Hollendorfer said. “Prototyping engineers experiment with a
number of different plastics and other materials to reach the
flexibility the physician needs. For example, angioplasty catheters
are very flexible, while the SLS needed to be stiffer.”
Once the Spectranetics engineers design some physical
models, doctors test the prototypes for usability, and the one
found most acceptable undergoes testing at Spectranetics on
heart and fluids models. “We document the design and run
clinical trials after R&D testing,” Hollendorfer said. “After
collecting and analyzing data gathered from the clinical trials,
along with the physicians’ opinions, we’re sure the product is
safe and effective, and we apply to the FDA for approval.”
The next step in the design cycle centers on making sure the
design can be manufactured. “Sometimes these designs turn
out too complex to reproduce. All these catheters are disposable,
and we have to ensure complete reproducibility to very,
very tight tolerances. We may change the design to make it
manufacturable. As we go along, we use CADKEY to document
what we’ve done and to generate assembly drawings in a living
document that reflects all changes in the design,” he said.
From the design team, the CADKEY drawings go to the
production department, where parts are procured for volume
production. Once in full production mode, the drawings show
the assemblers what and how to make and serve to verify that
quality products go out the door. “The documentation we
produce with CADKEY is needed both for FDA approval and for
our own production lines,” Hollendorfer added.
The engineers use CADKEY in its solids mode when
designing new components for the CVX 300. “The laser is a very
stable product,” said Hollendorfer, “but it’s continually being
Emory University Hospital, Stanford University Hospital and
Barnes Jewish Hospital.
The laser consists of several complex mechanical assemblies:
the laser vessel, optical train and the systems frame and
cabinetry. “It has between 100 and 200 subassemblies,
totaling at least several hundred parts in a machine that
measures three feet tall by four feet long and two feet wide.
Our design process goes from designing components to
subassemblies, to the whole product.”
To make their job easier and faster, the Spectranetics
design engineers decided to build a library of all laser parts as
CADKEY solid models. “So far, we’ve done about of all the
parts. This library lets us respond very quickly to technology
changes. For example, when we made an improvement in the
laser’s cooling system, CADKEY made it possible for us to
model all the new fans to see where they fit in the existing
framework – with no production guesswork.”
Spectranetics began to use CADKEY in 1994, just after the
release of Generation Four of the CVX 300. “Back then, we
wanted to be able to give our assemblers 3D isometric
drawings for assemblies, because the new assemblies were
smaller and more complex. CADKEY had the easiest to use 3D
capability of all the programs we looked at, as well as being
the best-priced program. Nowadays CADKEY’s flexibility is
most important to us. We use solid models as much as
possible, and use the program to edit legacy data such as
those 3D isometric drawings – and also for its photo-realistic
modeling abilities. We can import CADKEY imagery into
medical, investor and marketing presentations very easily – and
that makes CADKEY very popular with the whole company,”
Hollendorfer said.
upgraded and updated.” Nine of the top 10 hospitals listed in
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PARAMETRICS - The Perfect Companion
CADKEY PARAMETRICS was designed specifically for users
looking to leverage CADKEY’s breadth of hybrid design functionality
and enhance their productivity with feature-based solid
modeling and/or constraint-based sketching tools. Our independent
user survey told us that CADKEY users did not want to be
forced into a parametric, solid-only system, nor give up the
freeform design tools they love. So we choose to develop
CADKEY PARAMETRICS as an integrated enhancement product
for those who can truly leverage the technology.
CADKEY PARAMETRICS significantly expands the hybrid
modeling approach with a powerful level of interaction between
traditional 2D drawing, wireframe, freeform solid, surface and
feature-based modeling. This advancement is unprecedented in
the mid-range CAD market. In typical CADKEY fashion,
functions of this new product can be accessed in a myriad of
ways including hotkeys, icons, toolbars, classic mode, and an
optional new folder tree and popup-menu system. The major
time saving advantages to adding CADKEY PARAMETRICS to
your current toolkit can be separated into three benefit categories;
Feature-based Modeling, Hybrid Parametric and Sketching/
Constraining.
Feature-based Modeling
CADKEY PARAMETRICS makes editing solids easy with full
access to values used in each model’s creation and interactions
between sets of features and parts.
Changing the radius of a complex multi-edge fillet feature is
Fig.2 Four part assembly driven with one dimension.
The creation of a set of prints for a family of parts can be
automated by modeling and detailing a single parametric
model. Adjusting the design parameters transforms the model
and causes the layout to update automatically. This approach
also prevents errors, saves the time in redrawing the other
members of the family and allows changes to be propagated
through the whole family, saving even more editing time.
Another advantage of feature-based modeling is Suppression,
which significantly accelerates the display of large parametric
models by temporarily turning off individual or categories
of detail-level features, such as fillets or small holes that are
unimportant to the visual clarity of the model.
Hybrid Parametric
Typical mid-range parametric solid modeling software
forces users to completely rebuild legacy data in their own
proprietary feature-based format before any changes can occur.
Because of CADKEY PARAMETRICS unique hybrid abilities, there
is no need to rebuild existing or imported solids. Parametric
features can be added to and created from non-parametric
solids. Even more impressive is this integration still allows the
non-parametric portions of a model to be edited with CADKEY’s
extensive face modification functions.
Features, such as the mold cavity (shown in Fig.3) formed
Fig.1 Editing a fillet feature.
as simple as selecting a blend face and typing in a new radius
in the dialog as shown in Fig.1. In this case, the parametric
fillet feature had been previously added to the imported
non-parametric solid shown.
Changes to a group of parts with mating relationships such
as the shaft, bushings and block (Fig.2) can easily be driven with
a single variable. Updating mating parts this way saves time and
more importantly prevents errors that can result by editing each
separately.
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Fig.3 Parametric mold cavity created with
an imported solid.

to CADKEY
Sketching/Constraining
Special sketching tools in CADKEY PARAMETRICS offer
major enhancement to the basic task of two-dimensional
drawing and can be applied to more than just solid modeling.
Sketch entities and dimensions utilize animated “click and
drag” placement and editing capabilities resulting in improved
visualization and a reduced number of menu selections.
Fig.4 Creating features from a standard parts library.
by subtracting the volume of an imported non-parametric solid,
will update automatically if the imported solid is replaced or
modified. The position of features such as water lines dependant
on the cavity will also update appropriately or provide
feedback if conflicts arise. This capability allows contract
manufacturers to quickly re-apply value-added changes to a
customer’s design if/when a new version is received.
Hybrid parametric modeling allows standard design
features, such as a bolt pattern for a model motor (shown in
Fig.4), to be stored as a library of solids in industry-standard file
formats like SAT, XT, STEP and IGES. This approach allows the
Fig.5 Dimemsion-driven and constrained 2D drawing.
library to be shared with other users and CAD systems.
Designers experienced in parametric modeling will appreciate
that many complex models with hundreds of features
become very difficult to work with due to congestion in the
feature tree. In many cases, significant numbers of design
features don’t require parametric editing or definition. CADKEY
PARAMETRICS provides a solution to these issues by allowing
sets of features to be defined as a single non-parametric solid
feature.
Fig.6 Animation of Range of Motion of linkage and motor.
Dimensions and geometric constraints (like coincident, parallel,
tangent and equal size) hold or drive the desired form of a
sketch profile during editing. Ordinarily a sketch would be
extruded or swept to generate a solid, but not every part design
or engineering task requires a 3D model. Sketching also
provides a quick means of creating simple 2D drawings (see
Fig.5). Intelligent associativity between 2D orthographic views
can be constructed using constraints, so that changing the value
of a dimension will update all views that are effected.
A constrained 2D sketch can be used in the study of multilink
kinematic mechanisms. In the sketch (Fig.6), grabbing the
link on the motor and dragging it in a circular path will animate
the range of motion of the whole linkage.
Existing or imported wireframe data can be quickly
converted into sketches and automatically constrained. Years of
legacy CAD data can be re-used in this manner to speed up the
redesign process by aiding
in the creation of
adjustable
parametric
solid models.
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CADKEY Classroom
Zero to Sixty in Less Than a Week!
By Jacques P. Marchetti, President
Marchetti Engineering
Authorized CADKEY VAR and Training Center
Performance cars are rated in terms of how fast a model
can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph. The most favorable indices
accompany models having well-balanced weight to drag
coefficients. Although an important factor, engine power will
play a small role in this performance benchmark. CAD systems
also have similar performance specs. Some CAD software
packages are extremely robust, yet are notoriously complicated
to learn, thus adding “drag” to the overall system. As an
instructional facility, we find that CADKEY is exceptionally well
balanced. With the right training, users can quickly meet and
exceed their productivity goals often within time frames as little
as one week.
To be productive and to fully enjoy its benefits, particularly
the workings of any CAD package, the user must be trained.
Organizations especially satisfied with their CAD solution are
those which invest in their staff’s training on a continuing basis.
Coincidentally, these same organizations exhibit the best growth
rates. Even the most experienced professionals,
in diverse fields of expertise, need training both
when using new software or simply to maintain
proficiency between interim upgrades. In some
cases, users have been using only a small portion
of the CAD tool’s power. They may only be using
the 2D toolset and are not harnessing the 3D solid
modeling power “under the hood.”
There are no two ways around it. Locking
yourself in a room for a month until you figure
things out on your own isn’t effective. In case you
haven’t noticed, manuals and on-line help are not
getting any more detailed. I recall once reading the
on-line help from one manufacturer’s CAD package,
explaining the use of the HELIX command. It read as
follows: “The HELIX function will create a HELIX. To
use the Helix command, click the HELIX icon or, from
the pull-down menu, click on HELIX. Then, select the elements
that will be used to form the HELIX.” This is helpful? Given this
type of content, it’s pretty safe to say that the days of selflearning
are over.
Or do you think technical support will solve all your
problems? In many cases, customers will invest in a technical
support agreement all for the wrong reasons. Contracts
typically cost about $500 and are usually limited to issues
related to performance and suspected bugs. It is interesting to
note that the majority of TS calls logged are not related to any
of these issues. In almost each case, the call is a “how to”
question. Extended technical support is certainly a valuable
option to have in place. As products become progressively more
complex, the need to have a direct pipeline to a knowledgeable
technician that can provide fast solutions is crucial to the
software investment. But, this support is never a substitute for
training. How will you know what support to ask for if you
don’t know what your software is designed to do? Our
statistics show that companies or individuals that invest in
training and maintain proficiency with their software maximize
their in-house productivity. Training directly impacts the
company’s bottom line. It’s a relational benefit.
Now that we agree on the benefits of training, what kind
of training will enable you to make the best use of your tools?
Many VARS, including Marchetti Engineering, offer on-site
training at your place of business. While this might seem like
the most convenient solution, this type of training forum
generally has a higher price tag associated with it because of its
consultative nature. Your trainees may be distracted from the
training by the ongoing workday demands and interruptions.
Also, the trainer may be using machines that aren’t optimally
configured for training purposes. Oftentimes, the scope of the
desired training is not properly defined. This inability to communicate
can leave you frustrated and disheartened on taking
future training sessions.
Much more effective and economical is
formal classroom training. A good training facility
is one which provides a state-of-the-art learning
environment, and which presents the materials
and curriculum in very logical manner. The best
facilities offer a range of tiered curriculums
starting with the very basics, and leading to
more advanced, application–specific discussions.
These facilities and their staffs are trained to
respond to students various learning levels.
An outgrowth of our years of classroom
training is our soon to be released reference
manual entitled Solids Modeling – Methods
and Applications. This easy to use reference
manual is a corollary to our teaching methods.
The manual is designed to be beneficial
to users at multiple levels. Your local
CADKEY VAR may have access to this textbook and
others to help you become an expert CAD user. New users as
well as those having many years in the field can appreciate its
benefit.
Drive your CAD software like a pro; make the investment in
proper, professional training and maximize the benefits CADKEY
brings to its class of CAD productivity tools.
- Enjoy the springtime!
Jacques Marchetti is President and Founder of Marchetti Design
and Engineering, Leominster, MA (www.marcehttieng.com),
serving the New England area. The company was founded in
1995 and is dedicated to providing comprehensive solutions for
the CAD/CAM and CAE market, offering sales, training and
technical support for CADKEY products.
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TECH Note
Locking Control Bars Into Position
CADKEY provides users with unmatched usability in a
multitude of ways, one of which is the option to customize the
CADKEY interface to meet user-specific preferences. When
running CADKEY after the interface has been customized, the
Control Bars don't always dock to the location where they were
placed by the user. This tends to happen more frequently when
multiple CADKEY menus are placed on the left side of the
CADKEY application window (see Figure 1). The positioning
is done by Windows to comply with the non-maximized
window rules.
Some users have reported that certain screen configurations
cause the arranged CADKEY Control Bars to shift when
going from one CADKEY session to the next. If one of the
CADKEY Control Bars is positioned at the bottom of the
application window when Windows positions them on program
startup, it may shift (see Figure 2).
Procedure
The above situation can be remedied by performing the
following easy steps:
1. If the CADKEY application is already maximized, click on the
Windows “Restore” button (the middle button at the very
top right of the CADKEY application window – see Figure 3).
2. Manually drag the edges of the CADKEY application window
as far as they will go until it covers the entire screen
(see Figure 4).
3. Manually Arrange the Control Bars to your liking.
4. Select the Windows “Maximize” button (see Figure 5) to
maximize the CADKEY application window (you will see
a very slight repositioning).
The Control Bars in CADKEY will no longer shift from one session
to the next. For more information, please review Technote #1146,
published by CADKEY Corporation in the SUPPORT section of our
website at www.cadkey.com.
Fig.1 – this shows a
CADKEY Control Bar
placed at the bottom
of the application
window.
Fig.3 – Windows
“Restore” button
Restore
Control Bar
Fig.2 – the application menu
previously at bottom has
shifted up near the top
and the viewport has
been decreased.
Control Bar
Fig.4 – Drag the
edges of the CADKEY
viewport as far as
they will go.
Fig.5 - Windows
“Maximize” button
Maximize
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Educational Corner
CADKEY Computer-Aided Design
Curriculums Unfold in American and
Canadian School Systems
Greater Essex County School Board in Windsor, Canada
Purchases 500 Educational Seats of CADKEY
Cornerstone Technology, a CADKEY Authorized Reseller in
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, received a purchase order from the
Greater Essex County School Board for 500 educational seats of
CADKEY 99. The CADKEY mechanical CAD (Computer-aided
Design) software will be used at 15 secondary schools located
throughout the city and county.
Paul Coleman of Cornerstone Technology stated, “When
the Greater Essex County School Board polled local employers
with the question, ‘Which software do you feel is the most
appropriate to give our Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program
students a good grounding in preparation for work?’ The
response was CADKEY. The School Board surveyed local
businesses and found that over 60% of manufacturing and
engineering firms in the area were using CADKEY as their
design software. The Greater Essex County School Board took
an aggressive step to change their engineering curriculums, and
we met their challenge.”
“CADKEY’s intuitive interface and comprehensive hybrid
modeling toolset make it the perfect ease-into-3D design
software for educators and students alike. Students can really
learn the basics with CADKEY…from wireframe to solids to
surface modeling,” states Mark Graveline, Vice President of
Sales at CADKEY Corporation.
Tech Ed Concepts Trains New
Instructors in the United States
Dick Amarosa of TEC and Brian Bailey IT Manager, recently
trained teachers new to CAD in Bridgeport, Connecticut on
CADKEY 99 and CAD LAB 2000 ® . The city of Bridgeport
recently purchased a fifty-station license from Education Valueadded
Reseller, Frank Gregorio of Electronic Marketing.
Tech Ed Trainer, Dr. Jack Miller, traveled to Dillard University
in New Orleans, LA for a few days of supplemental training.
The School of Engineering recently upgraded to CADKEY 99.
Dr. Miller reported the Engineering Professors were especially
impressed with the product’s visualization features and surface
modeling capabilities.
TEC Launches CAD LAB 2000 ®
Powered by CADKEY
Tech Ed Concepts, Inc., the National Academic Distributor
of the CADKEY product line, has designed a unique curriculum
and software package for the Introduction to Mechanical
Drafting. Because many teachers in the United States need
curriculum to meet their state standards and objectives for
Technology Education, CAD Lab 2000 was developed by Richard
Amarosa, President of Tech Ed Concepts, Inc. and well -known
author/former educator Dr. Len Nasman. CAD LAB 2000
provides teachers and students the tools to experience creativity,
problem solving, technology research and most importantly the
opportunity to communicate and heighten the thought process.
CAD LAB 2000 is guaranteed to go beyond the normal technology
module experience using CADKEY.
CAD Lab 2000 has built-in flexibility to adapt to a school’s
specific curriculum needs. The program can be used as the
basis for a two day Awareness Program to a fifteen-day Exploratory
Module. The Master Module contains CADKEY software
for the instructor and licenses for five student stations, a Tutor
CD, one for the instructor and one for each student license, an
instructors guide for Mechanical CAD basics module, a student
workbook, a real-world application instructor pack and a
laminated poster of CAD LAB’s toolbar series. To learn more
about CAD LAB 2000 and receive the new CAD LAB brochure
be sure to visit www.Tecedu.com or call TEC at 800-338-2238.
Sixth Annual CADKEY TEC Summer
Camp for North American Technical
Educators Set for July 2000
Tech Ed Concepts, Inc. (Pembroke, NH) will hold its sixth
annual TEC Summer Camp for all levels of technical educators at
the Wayfarer Inn in Bedford, New Hampshire in July 2000.
Course dates have been scheduled for the weeks of July 10 th ,
and July 17 th . Attendees will receive quality, personalized training
from certified professional secondary and post-secondary
classroom instructors. College or teacher credits can be earned
through this training program.
The highly affordable TEC Summer Camp 2000 is designed
to expand the educator’s knowledge of CADKEY and prepare
them to teach the latest advances in the upcoming fall semester.
Technical instructors will explore all facets of 3D mechanical
design utilizing CADKEY ‘s hybrid modeling technology during a
a full week of hands-on training. The comprehensive courses
includes 40+ instructional
hours, free CAD software,
classroom materials, open
evening labs with an
assistant, and TEC’s famous
New England Cookout. Also
on the agenda are special
academic/commercial
guests, modular and
innovative curriculum, and a seminar featuring science/math/
technology integration. The entire week of camp is priced at
just $ 595 USD including lunch. Hotel accommodations are
available at corporate rates. Courses are offered to educators
only on a first-come first-served basis. For more information,
contact TEC at 1-800-338-2238, visit the TEC Website at
www.tecedu.com or Email: summercamp@tecedu.com.
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Community News
Precision Pneumatics’ Dual Slide
Named in Product Design &
Development Magazine’s
Top 40 Designs of 1999
Precision Pneumatics, Ronkonkoma, NY, founded by Ron
and Adriana Nollet in 1999, designed and manufacturers the
first-ever pick-and-place actuators offering two axes of movement
in a single unit. The “Dual Slide” automatically loads
parts for processing and/or assembly in specialty assembly and
machine tools. Until the Dual Slide entered the market,
machine makers had to purchase two separate slides and bolt
them together at a 90° angle to each other to obtain the range
of motion available in this one unit. Less than 10 months after
its initial introduction, the Dual Slide became one of Product
Design & Development’s Top 40 Designs of 1999.
The slides lift objects
vertically – objects varying in
size from screws on their way
to having their slots machined,
all the way up to electric
motors –transports them
horizontally and drops them
vertically. Ron Nollet, President
of Precision Pneumatics,
said, “Having a single unit
capable of moving both vertically and horizontally saves
machine builders time in their design, assembly and testing
processes. People try it once, and they’re sold.”
The Dual Slide comes in three different bore cylinder sizes –
5/8-in., 1-in., and 1 1/2-in. – with maximum stroke of 18 inches
on the 1 1/2-inch bore size. In addition, Precision Pneumatics
offers a number of options unavailable from any other manufacturer.
Nollet says that the product evolved over a number years
when he was himself involved in machine building. A long-time
CADKEY user, Ron generated 2D rough drawings and checked
them for interferences, and then made a number of physical
prototypes until he got the product to the shape and size he
wanted. “My main objective was to make the unit as compact
as possible, with as many time-saving features and options as
possible. We then made solid models of the actuators, each of
which has about 30 components – both to make sure of fit and
to serve as manufacturing drawings.”
For more information on Precision Pneumatics go to their
website at www.precision-pneumatics.com. For more
information about Product Design and Development magazine
and how to subscribe, visit their web site at
www.pddnet.com.
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CADKEY Corporation Casts VAR Net;
Adds Twelve New Resellers to U.S.
Distribution Channel
CADKEY Corporation recently announced the addition of twelve Value
Added Resellers (VARs) to its domestic distribution channel:
REGION
Northeast:
Midwest:
West Coast:
South:
HEADQUARTERS
A.C.C. Systems, Inc. (New York)
Precision CAD/CAM Systems (Maryland)
OptiPro Systems (New York)
Advanced Business Systems, Inc. (Illinois)
Anderson CAD/CAM, Inc. (Minnesota)
Cincinnati CAD Systems (Ohio)
Mid-West Tech (Iowa)
North East Wisconsin (NEW) Technology (Wisconsin)
Olmsted Engineering (Michigan)
Acuity, Inc. (Oregon)
All Set Manufacturing Solutions (California)
Computer-Source of LA, Inc. (Louisiana)
All twelve companies will resell and market the entire line-up of
CADKEY mechanical Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software. These fullservice
offices provide engineering and manufacturing technical support,
applications training, consulting, and specialized CADKEY software
development. CADKEY Corporation has over 50 resellers and distributors
serving a worldwide user base in more than 40 countries.
“CADKEY Corporation continues to reinforce our multi-channel
distribution model with top-notch dealers,” states Mark Graveline,
CADKEY Corporation’s Vice President of Sales. “Our main objective is to
provide CADKEY customers and prospects with multiple purchasing
options to satisfy their individual buying preferences. CADKEY Authorized
Resellers, domestic and international, are effectively co-existing with our
e-Commerce programs. Independent surveys show that CADKEY
continues to have tremendous name recognition in the industry. Our
digital sales arm enables us to dramatically expand this product awareness
and our market reach. Our dealer channel is the vital facet in
building customer relations through creativity, industry expertise, product
knowledge and quality services, ” concludes Graveline.
Spectranetics' CADKEY
Designs Featured on Cover
of Global Design News
The Excimer Laser, designed using
CADKEY by The Spectranetics Corporation
(Colorado Springs, CO), was selected by
Global Design News (Cahner's Publishing) to
be featured on the cover of their February,
2000 issue. Both a photorealistic rendering
and a wireframe version of the product were
shown. For more information see pages 8
and 9 of this newsletter or visit
www.spectranetics.com. Congratulations!

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