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2 September 2008
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RAND Worldwide Updates CATIA V5 Training with R18 Courses
RAND Worldwide announced CATIA V5 R18 as the standard version for all its public CATIA V5 training classes. Curriculum developed by RAND’s ASCENT –Center for Technical Knowledge® division provides a detailed focus on the latest enhancements in CATIA V5 R18.
RAND’s R18 courses include:
CATIA V5: Introduction to Modeling
CATIA V5: Introduction for NC and FEA Engineers
CATIA V5: Introduction for Managers and Reviewers
CATIA V5: Introduction to Surface Design
CATIA V5: Advanced Assembly Design & Management
CATIA V5: Advanced Part Design
CATIA V5: Advanced Surface Design
CATIA V5: Functional Tolerancing & Annotation
CATIA V5: Generative Drafting (ANSI or ISO)
CATIA V5: R18 Update for R17 Users
CATIA V5: Sheet Metal Design
DMU V5: Navigator & Space Analysis
DMU V5: Kinematics
DMU V5: Fitting Simulator
ENOVIA SmarTeam V5: Editor Author
ENOVIA SmarTeam V5: Web Editor
ENOVIA SmarTeam V5: Administration Installation
ENOVIA SmarTeam V5: Application Administration, I
ENOVIA SmarTeam V5: CATIA Integration
ENOVIA SmarTeam V5: CATIA Integration Advanced
ENOVIA SmarTeam V5: JAD Session Preparation
“By offering our training in Version R18, we are enabling our clients to gain greater utilization of the newest application version release and take advantage of the latest enhanced features for improved application utilization,” said Joe Oswald, Executive Vice President PLM Operations, North America and Europe, RAND Worldwide. “We have continuously developed and offered training to our clients as they adopt the latest software version release, allowing RAND to be the trusted training provider they have come to expect and timely in meeting their training requirements.”
Included in the R18 releases are the following course updates:
The CATIA V5: Introduction to Modeling course provides instruction on the new Chordal Fillet tool included in the R18 Generative Shape Design and Part Design workbenches. CATIA V5 users learn to create a fillet measured by a chord length, not a radius value, for greater fillet dimensioning flexibility. Students taking the course also benefit from new chapter review questions designed to recap the information presented in each section of the curriculum, which enable students to measure their knowledge retention before moving on to the next lesson.
The updated CATIA V5: Advanced Surface Design course contains two chapters discussing the enhanced Connect Checker functionality, which now combines the Surface Connect Checker and Curve Connect Checker tools. Students taking the course are instructed to properly analyze curves and surfaces using the enhanced functionality and interface. Enhancements to the Twisted areas management functionally within the Sweep tool are also covered. CATIA V5 users will discover the new options available when working with twisted or overlapping sweep geometry and learn how to create geometry that, in previous releases, would have required additional independent features outside of the sweep. Similarly to the CATIA V5: Introduction to Modeling course, the course also focuses on the new Chordal Fillet tool included in the R18 Generative Shape Design and Part Design workbenches. Industries conscious of deformation during the manufacturing process will also benefit from CATIA V5: Advanced Surface Design’s newly added content related to creating ruled developable Blend surfaces.
The CATIA V5: Generative Drafting course contains new curriculum focusing on the Add Callouts and Reorder Sheets functionality added to the R18 release. CATIA V5 users are exposed to the new Reorder Sheets functionality and learn to rearrange sheets within a drawing, eliminating the need to copy and paste drawing sheets into a specific or desired order. The course also teaches students how to re-establish an inadvertently deleted callout using the Add Callout feature, eliminating potential design rework and loss.
CATIA V5: R18 Update for R17 Users is an online course available through RAND’s ProductivityNOW SOLO (Searchable Online Learning Objects) solution, which also contains RAND’s entire collection of CATIA V5 R18 curriculum. The course focuses on the enhancements within the core R18 workbenches and includes instructional videos in the online curriculum to visually demonstrate and represent topics discussed in the course content. ProductivityNOW SOLO is a searchable online knowledgebase providing learning objects and technical issue resolutions; discussion forum access to share knowledge with fellow application users around the world; previously recorded virtual training seminars; eLearning courses to improve targeted application skill sets; and the option to securely incorporate a company’s own best practices and intellectual property. RAND employs 50 full-time certified instructors globally and provides extensive, high-quality professional development programs for Autodesk®, Dassault Systèmes and PTC® software solutions. In addition to standard classroom training, RAND offers a variety of training solutions for CATIA V5 users, including customized training and development programs, a personalized learning service to provide users with a desk-side mentor and knowledge assessment tools designed to assist CATIA V5 users to identify knowledge gaps for targeted training and improvement. In addition to its training services, RAND offers a portfolio of internally developed software products, software development and Product Lifecycle Management consulting and implementation services. For additional information about RAND Worldwide and its training and professional services, please visit http://www.randservices.com.
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