CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
17 November 2005
Company News
RAND Worldwide® Adds 3D Functional Tolerancing and Annotation Course to PLM Training Line-Up
RAND A Technology Corporation operating as RAND Worldwide, announced that its Education Services division has released 3D Functional Tolerancing and Annotation to its extensive PLM course line-up for CATIA's 3D Functional Tolerancing and Annotation workbench. RAND's 3D Functional Tolerancing and Annotation course is designed to educate CATIA users in displaying engineering, manufacturing and assembly information directly on a 3D part, assembly or process model. Students taking the course will receive a thorough understanding of geometric tolerances, dimensions, notes and other annotations critical to the accurate and cost-effective creation of mechanical parts and assemblies.
"Traditionally, 3D shape and size data was only made available in 2D drawing format making it challenging for manufacturing, assembly, and fabrication teams to interpret and extract engineering data," said Joe Oswald, Executive Vice President, RAND Worldwide. "Our 3D Functional Tolerancing and Annotation course will enable CATIA users to electronically communicate product design elements across the entire organization with a '3D everywhere' philosophy."
The 3D Functional Tolerancing and Annotation course complies with the industry and government initiated American Society of Mechanical Engineers' (ASME) Y14.41 3D standards for the creation and submission of model only, paperless design applications. The ASME Y14.41 standard was developed and is used by a variety of independent consultants such as Dassault Systèmes, The Boeing Company, Ford Motor Company, Raytheon Company, U.S. Department of the Army -TACOM-ARDEC, and General Motors Corporation.
RAND Education Services employs 50 full time, certified instructors globally and provides extensive, high-quality professional development programs for Autodesk®, Dassault Systèmes and PTC® software solutions. Courseware development services and knowledge products are also offered through its ASCENT - Center for Technical Knowledge division.
Along with its education services, RAND Worldwide offers a portfolio of internally developed software products, software development, and Product Lifecycle Management consulting and implementation services.
For additional information about RAND Worldwide's education services, please visit http://www.rand.com/education .
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