Meeting Minutes
Friday 19 May 2006 Telecon

In attendance:

Fred Proctor, NIST
Sid Venkatesh and David Odendahl, Boeing
Alan Crawford, LSC
Alain Brail, Airbus
Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools Inc.

Alain had to reduce the size of the fish head part by taking off the
tail, so that it would fit in the machine's work volume. He will
forward the new Catia process files to Fred as soon as they are
prepared. Fred will send them to David. 

Alan reported that LSC can no longer take Catia files to AP 203 due to
staffing. David will do this from now on. 

Alain reported that they have not been able to do machining trials at
the university due to problems with the Siemens NC verifier and also
with fixturing. They are working on this. 

The demo facility will hold 50 people. There will be 2 video
cameras. Flood coolant may obscure the view, but the cameras should
help. The demos will be recorded, and the machine is not noisy. 

Action Items
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* Alain will send out revised Catia process files for the tail-less
  fish head part to Fred. This will also include AP 203 and cutting
  path CL data. Fred will forward this to David.
* For the AP 224 roughing, 2 mm excess material will be added by LSC
  so that the excess is explicit, rather than implicit through the use
  of a smaller tool. 
* A hole will be left in the AP 224 design, but may not be drilled out
  during the roughing phase so that it can be fully machined during
  the finishing phase. This will demonstrate the flexibility of
  STEP-NC. 
* Boeing will modify the 5-axis rib part and get data to NIST next
  week. The process will be for a 1/2-inch cutter. Fixturing will be a
  simple bolt-down on a machinable plate. 
* Alain will send the abridged flyer to Sid ASAP. 
* Sid will get feedback from vendors regarding their attendance.

As recorded by Fred Proctor on 19 May 2006.