Jan 10 - ASCENT Updates CATIA V5 Courses

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MISSISSAUGA, ON, Jan 10, 2008 – RAND Worldwide, a global leader in providing technology solutions to organizations with engineering design and information technology requirements, announced it has enhanced three of its CATIA V5 courses developed by its ASCENT - Center for Technical Knowledge division,

CATIA V5: Advanced Part Design,
CATIA V5: Introduction to Surface Design, and
CATIA V5: Advanced Surface Design.

"The addition of new topics and project exercises will extend our students' capabilities with this complex software," said Joe Oswald, Executive Vice President PLM Operations, North America and Europe, RAND Worldwide. "Many of the changes incorporated into these updated courses have come directly from our professionals working frontline with clients every day, seeing their specific challenges and identifying pertinent training topics that will advance users' CATIA V5 knowledge and on-the-job productivity."

The CATIA V5: Advanced Part Design and CATIA V5: Advanced Surface Design courses include RAND's new exercise format, Project Exercises. Project Exercises provide users the opportunity to build and analyze geometry on their own based on the concepts learned throughout the course and to determine if they can meet the project design specifications provided by applying those concepts.

The CATIA V5: Advanced Part Design course introduces new concepts for working within a concurrent design environment. Users are exposed to a variety of tools to show, manage, and reuse design data to make the design process more efficient. To accommodate the additional concepts, the course length has increased from two days to three and contains six new chapters and 28 new exercises. Real-world models and processes developed through RAND's client experiences are used in the curriculum to reinforce CATIA V5 functions and tools and provide a greater hands-on learning approach. The new chapters presented in the course focus on an introduction to automation; wireframe lines and curves; feature failure; thickness, remove, and replace face features; and analysis tools for draft, thread and tap, and parameterization.

The combination of RAND's CATIA V5: Introduction to Surface Design and CATIA V5: Advanced Surface Design has increased from a total of three days to five. The longer course length gives CATIA V5 users the comprehensive surfacing knowledge required for complex surfacing projects. The two courses also include the following improvements:

The CATIA V5: Introduction to Surface Design course moved from a one-day class to two days and places greater emphasis on the Generative Shape Design workbench functionality in the GS1 license. The course gives students the data required to make better design intent decisions and more effectively reuse data. Surface modeling best practices are reinforced throughout the new curriculum to assist users in creating more robust and flexible surface geometry. Advanced wireframe and complex surfaces chapters have been added and expanded upon, as well as a new chapter focusing on boundary representations. In addition, 18 new exercises have been added to ensure users gain a greater understanding and retention of the concepts taught and to further support RAND's hands-on learning approach philosophy.

The CATIA V5: Advanced Surface Design course has increased from a two-day class to three days and further extends the knowledge gained from the CATIA V5: Introduction to Surface Design course. The class uses the GSD license (formerly GS2) and contains significant enhancements intended to increase the users exposure to additional features for building more advanced and complex surface geometry. Four new chapters have been added to the course focusing on advanced surfacing projects and surface fillets, knowledge templates, and offset surfaces, as well as 28 new hands-on exercises. Continuing with the use of real-world examples, many of the new exercises provide users with strategies to manually build geometry in complex situations when expected results are not achieved. Specifically, users are presented with lessons demonstrating unexpected results and how to work around the issues presented by the resulting geometry. This includes properly using a tool, what can make a tool generate unexpected results, alternate tools that can be used to capture the necessary geometry, and alternative tool uses. The course also contains improved ReflectLine, multi-extract, blends, and sweeps content.

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.

For more information visit at http://www.randservices.com.

About RAND Worldwide

RAND Worldwide is one of the world's leading providers of professional services and technology to the engineering community, targeting organizations in the building, infrastructure and manufacturing industries. RAND enables its customers to improve their competitiveness, productivity, and profitability by enhancing key aspects of their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) capabilities, including planning, development, and management. As one of the leading technology independent systems integrators in the world, RAND Worldwide operates in 50 sales and client service centers globally.

For more information please visit www.rand.com.

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