Next Event: Digital Industrial Design Workflow

Hello Pittsburgh IDSA!  Our next event:

 

Digital Industrial Design Workflow

Art Institute of Pittsburgh

6:30 PM

Monday June 2^nd

Room 740

Presented by Imaginit Technologies

 

Imaginit Technologies will be in Pittsburgh on Monday June 2nd to give a presentation on their "digital production workflow."  They will show you how to create a model directly over a sketch without losing your design intent. From there, Inventor will be used to show many of the new features that make it a great engineering solids modeling tool. Finally, Showcase will be used to bring the project full circle as a high end real time communications tool eliminates the nee for renderings.

 

Imaginit Technologies is a reseller of AutoDesk products and also a solutions provider.  They will be highlighting Alias Studio 2009 in their presentation.  Their technical experts will get you up to speed with a great deal of information about the new powerful tools in Alias Studio 2009.

 

The event is being graciously hosted by the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (find the map here) in ROOM 740.

 

Personally I have seen a few of their new programs at the Mideast District conference, and while all were very impressive, Showcase was the most amazing thing- it is truly an instant real-time rendering tool.  I have never seen anything like that. This is a must see!

 

http://www.rand.com/imaginit/1/verticals/industrial_design.htm

 

Best Regards,

Tony Shoemaker, IDSA

Western PA Chapter Chair

We're Live!

The Western PA Chapter IDSA now has its own spot on the internet!

 

http://westernpaidsa.blogspot.com

 

This will be our organization’s home for all of our happenings and information.  There, you will find a permanent link to our Calendar, which will be updated (ir)regularly.  We will also post all of our event announcements as well as our post event wrap ups there.  

 

Did you lose that email about that event?  Not to worry- its on the site.  Immediately after you receive the emails, the same information will appear right on the site.  Even if other posts have come online, just scroll down and you will find what you’re looking for.

 

In the near future you will find a link to our own Flikr account so that you can go back and see what you missed in previous events, and upload your own IDSA event photos to share with the chapter.

 

We will also be providing links directly to pertinent information about our chapter on the IDSA National site, as well as a link directly to IDSA.org’s hompage.

 

Always looking for more ways to keep us all in touch, please feel free to post comments on the site.  The new site is a blog, so this is also an opportunity for us all to interact with each other and not fill up our in-boxes.  We also intend to host discussion topics in which we can all participate.  

 

So bookmark us today, and check back often!

 

-- Western PA Chair, Tony Shoemaker, IDSA

2008 Calendar

March 20th, 5:30 PM
Student Merit Award Presentations
Carnegie Mellon University
Margaret Morrison, A11
http://www.design.cmu.edu/
All are invited to view the Student Merit Award judging.

April 1st, Tuesday 6:30 PM
Tucker Viemeister
MAYA / VIZ General Dynamics2730 Sidney Street, Building 2, Suite 300, South Side Works
http://www.gdviz.com/web/index.mtml
Tucker Viemeister will conduct a lecture for all local IDSA and AIGA members.
FREE for members! $5 for non-member
Space is limited so please email info@pittsburgh.aiga.org with your attendance.
More details coming very soon!

April 11-13th
IDSA Mideast District Conference
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.idsa.org/whatsnew/districts/mideast/about.html
This year's conference is shaping up to be a great one. See you there!

April 18th
Pittsburgh International Auto Show
David L. Lawrence Convention Center
http://www.pittsburghauto.org/pata/main.cfm?section=auto
This year we plan on not only attending, but perhaps making the event a bit more interactive. So, stay tuned. Members free, $5 for guests and friends.
More details coming soon!

AND COMING LATER...

This Summer (June/July timeframe)
55th Carnegie International
Carnegie Museum of Art
http://www.cmoa.org/exhibitions/ci08.asp
More details soon

This Fall (September timeframe)
The "Fall Thing"
More details soon

This Winter (November timeframe)
Holiday Party
More details soon

If you have any brainstorms or if you are interested in helping out with planning or hosting, don't hesitate to write or call. We love volunteers! ...and we look forward to seeing you all soon.

Your Western PA Chapter Board
Tony Shoemaker
Josh Greenberg
Julia Frederking
Matthew Sass