MEETING MINUTES                                                                                             July 15, 1998

Meeting called to order by President Mark Hazen.

  Old Business:

n       Minutes from previous meeting read and where incomplete.  They will be completed and given to the president for final review and acceptance

n        A reminder that members profiles need to be added to our Users Group web site.

 New Business:

The president opened the discussion for sub-groups or Special Interest Groups (SIGs).  Bill Booth volunteered to lead the AutoCAD Map group.  He needs training sessions and will investigate availability.  Greg Fielden volunteered to organize the building trades users group.  These groups will be open to all interested persons and we will encourage them to join the main users group at the second meeting of  the individual SIG meetings.

Bill Booth tentatively schedules the first AutoCAD Map meeting for Aug 19^th.  That date has been changed to October 22, 1998 at the City of Redding, Conference Room A.

Linda Lowell will set up a Users Group E-mail list of all users and inform these people of upcoming events.

We would like to get Tim Corey more involved with the current group.

All attendees introduced themselves and gave a brief description of there type of employment.

Mark Hazen, NORCADD  - Machined parts background, drafting; using AutoCAD LT.  HP plotter service and repair technician.

Bill Booth, Chec Concultants – Paving contractors who have designed a program for surface conditions using Geopoint.   Currently using ACAD 10 and 14.

John Boyle, Between The Lines – Associate Instructor using ACAD 13 and Softdesk.

Greg Fielden, Unity Electric – Commercial applications for ACAD, 12 years in the building trades

Jim Eilts, Between The Lines –  student, new member with construction and trades background both commercial and residential.

Troy Devereux, Between The Lines – student, new member with construction experience and a business owner in the Sonora area.

Jeff Clausen, Siskiyou County Assessors Office – Using ACAD 12 and 14 and Map plus has Microstation experience

Ron Wallace, CH2M HILL – guest; is a Spanish teacher and translator working on ACAD 14 and 3D, plus does C++ programming and uses Turbo Pascal.

Linda Lowell, CH2M HILL – Engineering Technician, AutoCAD and Microstation drafter

Mark wants to know how Visualbasic related to AutoCAD?  Can anyone give him some info?

Bill Booth gave a report on the Autodesk AutoCAD users  meeting held in San Rafael sponsored by AUGI at the Autodesk headquarters.  He and Dave Jones attended the demonstrations, seminars and discussions.  They brought back a hat and wrist pad which were raffled off at our meeting.  Also, Bill would like to take a group from here to the meeting next year.  Bill will keep us informed.

Open Forum followed with questions and answers session.  Topics included:

  Plotting

  Bonus Tools

  Paste Special

  Cadance magazine July  issue coverage of linking data to AutoCAD drawings

  Multi layers

  LT 97

  Lisp routines for productivity

  Dimensioning problems

  ACAD r13 bugs and flyout menus

  “Bug List” for r14 on Cadance and Catalyst web sites

Our next meeting is set for October 14^th at the City of Redding Conference Room A.

Meeting adjourned.

Note:  Treasurer was not in attendance to give a treasurer’s report.  We do have $520.38 in the bank after tonights meeting.

Email address:  ncaug@ci.redding.ca.us   and don’t forget to send all your interesting  things to our local web site.  Contact Jim Coats at the City of Redding, fax number is 225-4360.