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All,<br><br>
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
<a href="http://www.gefanuc.com/Downloads/en/cnc_session_descriptions.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.gefanuc.com/Downloads/en/cnc_session_descriptions.pdf</a>. For
information on registration and a general description of the conference
see
<a href="http://www.gefanuc.com/as_en/discover2007/overview.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.gefanuc.com/as_en/discover2007/overview.html</a><br><br>
2. Videos of the roughing operations proposed by Sandvik are on the ftp
site. Please download and review them before the conference call
<a href="ftp://www.steptools.com/private/Dallas" eudora="autourl">
ftp://www.steptools.com/private/Dallas<br><br>
</a>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.<br><br><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">
<ol>
<li><font size=1>Dial one of the listed local numbers to join the meeting
<li>Sweden: +46 (0) 8 503
163 00 or 0200 89 70 70</font>
<li><font size=1>Germany: +49
(0) 69 222 220 499 or 0800 000 1136</font>
<li><font size=1>UK: +44 (0)
207 107 0610 or 0800 376 5610</font>
<li><font size=1>Enter Host-ID: 95967</font>
<li><font size=1>Enter PIN-code: 4544</font>
<li><font size=1>additional local numbers:</font>
</ol><font size=1 color="#0000FF"><u>
<a href="http://local.meet24.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://local.meet24.com/</a></u></font> </blockquote><br>
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.<br><br>
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Schedule<br>
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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.<br><br>
November 1st
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- Machining
demonstration<br>
October 24th
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- Finish
machining tests<br>
October 10th
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- Begin machining
tests<br>
October 1st
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- Finish tool
path development<br>
September 15th <x-tab> </x-tab>- Begin tool path development<br>
September
1st<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- Confirmation of
participants<br><br>
New Action Items<br>
--------------------------<br>
Shaw Feng and HiPP team to review the inspection features suggested by
Airbus<br>
Chen-Han Lee to assist Bengt Olsson in converting the Sandvik rough model
to AP-203<br><br>
Old Action items<br>
------------------------<br>
David Loffredo and David Odendahl to investigate use of rotate command
for two dimensional probing<br>
Fred Proctor to prepare a welcome package for new organizations that want
to join the demonstration<br>
Xun Xu to review the welcome package and scenario documentation<br><br>
Closed Action Items<br>
-----------------------------<br>
Martin Hardwick to send AP-203 file for the fish head to Len Slovensky
<br>
Len Slovensky to prepare a draft AIC for the inspection features<br>
David Odendahl to contact Chen Han Lee of UGS and John Horst to contact
John Schafer of UGS about participating in the demonstration<br>
Fred Proctor to investigate use of Pro/Manufacturing for developing fish
head tool paths<br>
Martin Hardwick to contact Prof. Kisinami about Far East participation in
the demonstration<br>
Alain Brail to contact Renishaw about using their macros for two
dimensional (X and Y) probing<br>
Martin Hardwick to send Catai data for the Ibusuki demonstration to Shaw
Feng<br>
Len Slovensky to investigate developing an AP-224 file with the
tolerances for the fish head part as a substitute AP-203 e2 file<br>
John Horst to assist Ray Admire in contacting the Mori-Seiki tech
center<br>
Bengt Olsson to investigate requirements for optimal tool selection<br>
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