Meeting Minutes
Tuesday 18 April 2006 Telecon

In attendance:

Fred Proctor, NIST
Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools Inc.
Alain Brail, Airbus

Alain reported that Christine Hermetet-Filez has asked Howard Mason to
move the SC4 Liaison meeting from its usual Wednesday time slot to
either Tuesday or Thursday, so as not to conflict with our
demonstrations. Alain has not heard a reply. 

Alain noted that the fish head part with its current stock and tooling
is too large to be machinined on the university's machining
center. The milling tool has a 50 mm diameter, larger than necessary,
and a smaller tool should be used. He will work with the university
next week and conduct some trials to ensure that the stock will fit
for the demo. 

Siemens' France office will send two attendees to the
demonstration. One or more Siemens staff from a U.S. office will also
attend. 

The flyer has been changed and there are spots for participant
logos. Alain will get permission from Howard Mason to include
logos. Fred will reply to Alain with improvements to the English
grammar. 

At today's telecon, Martin was hoping to talk to Alan Crawford about
the rough machining. Martin send out a link to a private FTP site,
ftp://www.steptools.com/private/demo/, with an AP-238 file for
roughing and STEP-NC explorer software. The AP-238 file was generated
from Alan Crawford's LSC data by STEP Tools using Mastercam. In his
email, Martin asked that the group try the explorer. Martin had
questions on feature orientation and placement, noting for example
that the bottom of the slot in the tail is much lower than the bottom
of the part. This is evident in the "rough.ppt" screenshot. 

We were also hoping to get an update from Boeing on their
identification of a Boeing part. We will put this on the agenda for
the next telecon. 

Alain has made some videos of the Catia cutting process
simulation. There are about 20 files totaling more than a GB in
size. He will try to extract the highlights and send to the group via
the NIST web site. 

Action Items
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* Alain will send Martin a CL data file for the fish head part
  process. This includes both roughing and finishing. Martin will try
  to generate an AP 238 file for the finishing process, if possible,
  and will at least become familiar with the data.

* Fred will revise the grammar in the flyer and return it to Alain. 

* Martin will add more slides to "rough.ppt" showing the roughing
  process and send out via email.

* Fred will send out the URL to the NIST incoming FTP site, so that
  Alain can place some cutting videos there. Others can use this to
  put material for the web site as well.

* Fred will schedule dial-in access for the next telecon, scheduled
  for Tuesday 2 May 2006 at 10:00 am Eastern Daylight Time. 

As recorded by Fred Proctor on 18 April 2006.