[step-manufacturing] 4th call, roughing videos and STEP-NC Tutorial at GE Fanuc Users Conference

[Martin Hardwick]

All,

1. I am pleased to announce that a STEP-NC tutorial is to be given at 
the GE Fanuc User's conference in St. Louis on Thursday October 25. 
For information on the STEP-NC session see page 2 of 
http://www.gefanuc.com/Downloads/en/cnc_session_descriptions.pdf. For 
information on registration and a general description of the 
conference see http://www.gefanuc.com/as_en/discover2007/overview.html

2. Videos of the roughing operations proposed by Sandvik are on the 
ftp site. Please download and review them before the conference call 
ftp://www.steptools.com/private/Dallas

3. Our fourth conference call is on this Wednesday September 5th at 
4:30PM France, 3:30PM UK, 10:30 AM Eastern, 9:30AM Central and 7:30AM 
Western. The toll-free call in number for the USA is 1-866-481-9887. 
The call in numbers for Sweden and the UK are shown below and the URL 
gives a list of numbers for a wide range of other countries. Many 
thanks to Sandvik for providing this service.

>    * Dial one of the listed local numbers to join the meeting
>    * Sweden:         +46 (0) 8 503 163 00 or 0200 89 70 70
>    * Germany:        +49 (0) 69 222 220 499  or 0800 000 1136
>    * UK:        +44 (0) 207 107 0610  or 0800 376 5610
>    * Enter Host-ID:   95967
>    * Enter PIN-code:  4544
>    * additional local numbers:
>  http://local.meet24.com/

4. Airbus are unable to provide us with a Webex site for this call. 
We will review the open action items and the schedule and have a 
general discussion on how best to meet the goals of the demonstration 
(see the Minutes of the second conference call for a description of 
the goals). The scheduled and open action items are reproduced below 
from the minutes of the third call.


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Schedule
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No changes have been made to the schedule but potential participants 
should note that the deadline for confirming participation will be 
reached by the time of the next conference call.

November 1st            - Machining demonstration
October 24th            - Finish machining tests
October 10th            - Begin machining tests
October 1st             - Finish tool path development
September 15th  - Begin tool path development
September 1st           - Confirmation of participants

New Action Items
--------------------------
Shaw Feng and HiPP team to review the inspection features suggested by Airbus
Chen-Han Lee to assist Bengt Olsson in converting the Sandvik rough 
model to AP-203

Old Action items
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David Loffredo and David Odendahl to investigate use of rotate 
command for two dimensional probing
Fred Proctor to prepare a welcome package for new organizations that 
want to join the demonstration
Xun Xu to review the welcome package and scenario documentation

Closed Action Items
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Martin Hardwick to send AP-203 file for the fish head to Len Slovensky
Len Slovensky to prepare a draft AIC for the inspection features
David Odendahl to contact Chen Han Lee of UGS and John Horst to 
contact John  Schafer of UGS about participating in the demonstration
Fred Proctor to investigate use of Pro/Manufacturing for developing 
fish head tool paths
Martin Hardwick to contact Prof. Kisinami about Far East 
participation in the demonstration
Alain Brail to contact Renishaw about using their macros for two 
dimensional (X and Y) probing
Martin Hardwick to send Catai data for the Ibusuki demonstration to Shaw Feng
Len Slovensky to investigate developing an AP-224 file with the 
tolerances for the fish head part as a substitute AP-203 e2 file
John Horst to assist Ray Admire in contacting the Mori-Seiki tech center
Bengt Olsson to investigate requirements for optimal tool selection
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