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Welcome back! By using the Meeting Information link on the left, you can review the meeting minutes for previous years and what may be scheduled for 2005.


I  N F  O  R  M  A  T  I  O  N    &    N  E  W  S

February 9, 2005

The most active page on the site. See the Employment Page.with a new posting.


January 25, 2005
The jobs keep rolling in. See the Employment Page.


January 03, 2005
Happy New Year! To celebrate 2005, we have added another job posting. See the Employment Page.




December 21, 2004
More new job offerings have been posted on the Employment Page. Have a Great Holiday!


November 1, 2004
A new job offering has been posted on the Employment Page.


June 15, 2004
The economy must be picking up. A new job posting has been posted. You can check it out on the Employment Page.
April 28, 2004
A new job posting was put up today. You can check it out on the Employment Page.


January 26, 2004
OSWCU welcomes our members to the new year. We hope this year brings all our members good fortune and continued employment. :)

We are presently in "hibernation mode", though work is being done in the background. If you would like to participate in this work behind the scenes, please contact one of the officers.

A new job posting was put up today. You can check it out on the Employment Page.




November 21, 2003
Michael Obleski, a visualization juggernaut, has sent us 2 new updated images to the Cogen facility previously posted and an additional 3 new images. You can view these image, along with his other work, on the Gallery page.
November 11, 2003
Due to many reasons (too numerous to mention), the remaining two meetings for this year have been canceled. Our appologies for not keeping you all informed of this on a more timely basis. The Board will be meeting November 18th to discuss events for 2004. Please contact any of the Board members if you have any ideas for next year or if you have any issues that need to be addressed. If you are interested in attending this meeting, please contact one of us.

OSWCU member, Michael Obleski has submitted some new 3D images for your perusal. Go to the Gallery page to see some of his impressive work.


September 11, 2003
Due to scheduling problems, our September 17th meeting is being moved back to a date in October. Our appologies for the late notification.


August 13, 2003
Due to several circumstances, the meeting scheduled for August 20th has been canceled. We are sorry if you were looking forward to this meeting and we will look into scheduling this topic as a possibility for a future meeting. Our next meeting is still scheduled for Wednesday, September 17th.


July 3, 2003
The meeting originally scheduled for July has been moved back to August 20th. We will post more information concerning the meeting at a later date. Please check again.


June 3, 2003
The May 21th meeting minutes have been posted. Check them out to see what you missed!


May 22, 2003
Our May 21st meeting adjourned last night. The meeting minutes will be posted by next week. Our next meeting is slated for July 16th.

May 5, 2003
Our May 21st meeting location and agenda has been posted on the Meeting Information page.


April 15, 2003
Our first "Out-of-Portland" meeting was held last night and, judging by the attendance, was a success. The meeting minutes will be posted by next week.

April 11, 2003
A new job listing has been added to the Employment page.

We hope to see you this coming meeting being held at Chemeketa Community College.


March 18, 2003
Location and driving directions are now posted on the Meeting Information page. (Sorry for not getting it posted sooner! -webmaster)


February 21, 2003
OSWCU member, Michael Obleski has submitted some 3D images for your perusal. Go to the Gallery page to see his technique of combining a render and a wireframe to great effect!

Our next meeting, originally scheduled for March 19th, has been pushed back to Monday, April 14th. This will be our first of many (hopefully) meetings outside the Portland, OR area. The Meeting Information page will have all the specifics about topic, time, location, directions and parking. Hope to see you there!

The Microstation V8 Roadshow arrives in Portland on Tuesday, February 25th and OSWCU officers will be there. Hope to see some of you there.

February 4, 2003
New job offering was posted today. See the Employment Page.


January 29, 2003
New job offering was posted today. See the Employment Page.

January 27, 2003
January's meeting minutes are now posted along with photos (woo hoo!). For those of you who couldn't attend, you can read what you missed.

January 23, 2003
Our first meeting for 2003 was last night and, judging by the attendance and the number of people who stayed after the meeting to talk, it was a rousing success. For those of you who could not attend, we will have the meeting minutes and photos (!) posted by next week for your perusal. Our next meeting is slated for Wednesday, March 19th.

The Bentley V8 road show is coming to Portland on February 25th. The OSWCU Board and many of OSWCU's members are planning on attending. Hope to see you there!

January 17, 2003
Our first meeting for 2003 is next week, Wednesday January 22. Go to the Meeting Information Page for meeting time and location. Along with our regular program, David Silveira, an OSWCU member, and his asscociate have offered to share some of their 3D knowledge and work. It proves to be an interesting program. We hope to see you there.



December 31, 2002

OWSCU wishes everyone a Happy New Year!

To welcome in the new year we have added a new section to the web site: a Member's Gallery. The Member's Gallery will be a place where OSWCU members can share, with other members and the CAD world in general, work they have completed over past several years. If you are particularly proud of any work you have done, whether a drawing, a rendering or whatever, send it our way with a short description and we will post it for others to see. To start out this new addition, Doug Persson, OSWCU's Chairperson has submitted a few files for your perusal.

Please take note: January's meeting has been moved back to Wednesday, Jan. 22. See the Meeting Information page

December 18, 2002
Our new OSWCU Privacy Policy has been posted and can be reviewed by clicking the link to the left. Email addresses will be looking a bit different and the policy will explain why.

December 8, 2002
A new policy change pertaining to the web site will be posted in the next couple of weeks. This policy will deal with privacy issues and how we will be posting email addresses.

Our next meeting is scheduled for January 15, 2003. Location and time will be posted in the next couple of weeks.


November 18, 2002
The fledgling Employment Page has been put online and already we have a job posting! Click the new Employment link on the left to see what is available and review our posting policies.

November 5, 2002
The OSWCU Board of Directors met again last night. A tentative schedule of programs have been blocked out as well as several policies in regard to the web site and privacy issues. You will be seeing more news, changes and additions to the web site in the next couple of weeks. We are very excited about the upcoming year.


October 31, 2002
Photos of October's meeting have been added to the meeting minutes.

October 17, 2002
Our final meeting for 2002 was last night and it brought the 2002 season to a successful close. Even people who were employed came away learning something new. Some of the Board's thoughts for 2003 were shared during the meeting and it looks to be a good one. Go to the Meeting Information page to see the meeting minutes.


September 29, 2002
Our final meeting for 2002 is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 16th. Go to the Meeting Information page to find location, time and agenda.

We have a new officer! Welcome Lesli Merhaut of HDR, Inc. Lesli is going to take over the Secretary responsibilities from Tina Chee and Tina will take on the duties of the Treasurer.

The OSWCU board met on Monday, September 23rd to discuss schedules, upcoming programs, the collection of dues, revisions to the By-laws and various other business matters. We will share some of our ideas and thoughts for your review as soon as the minutes are compiled. We feel 2003 is going to be an exciting year.

September 19, 2002
Our final meeting of the year is soon approaching. More information will appear on the Meeting Information page.

Two more pipe cell libraries have been added to the Download area. They are AWWA 150 flanged fittings and AWWA Victaulic fittings.


July 18, 2002
Our third meeting of the year convened last night. Those who could not attend missed a very interesting and informative presentation of 3D Laser Scanning technology. To read all about what happened, go to the Meeting Information page.

July 10, 2002
The CADD Links page has been updated. Please let us know if you detect any broken links, inaccuracies or if you wish to see a link added or even removed.

We hope to see many of you at the July 17th meeting!


June 27, 2002
The July 17th meeting is soon approaching and the October 16th meeting has been booked. October's topic is on the Meeting Information page.

Our CADD Links page is in need of an overhaul and we will be giving it some maintenance within the next few weeks. If you have a favorite link you would like to share with the membership please email it our way!

In conjunction with our October meeting, we will be adding a Job Search page. This page will contain links to other web pages pertinent to technically oriented job searching, as well as postings for Want Ads. If anyone has thoughts they would like to share on this particular endeavor please send them our way.

June 20, 2002
July 17th meeting location has been established. Check it out on the Meeting Information page.


May 17, 2002
Meeting minutes have been moved to their own page. See Meeting Information page.

We now have a new Board Member! Welcome Tina Chee of Kittelson & Assoc. who has filled the Secretary vacancy.

May 8, 2002
The May 8th meeting was a great success!


April 2, 2002
The May 8th meeting is soon approaching and the July 17th meeting has been scheduled. Check Meeting Information for more news on these events.


March 24, 2002
Check out the File Downloads area! Two cell libraries containing 3D piping components have been added. And they are free!

March 4, 2002
Planned additions to the OSWCU web site:

  • Free downloadable files!- 3D pipe fittings will soon be available
  • Space for classified Ads - Jobs wanted / Job available
  • Expert Forum - Are you willing to offer help on some topic?

We need your help! We are in need of people willing to fill vacant officer positions.

Vacancies and Basic Responsibilities

  1. Secretary - Needed to take notes for board meetings and user meetings and to maintain membership and email lists.
  2. Treasurer - Collect dues and maintain checking account.
  3. Webmaster - Maintain OSWCU web site (must know basic HTML or be willing to learn)
All it takes is a few hours a months.
February, 2002
OSWCU was shut down during the Summer of 2001 and has undergone a reorganization. Doug Persson has taken over the Chairperson role while John Volk has remained as Vice-Chairperson. We are still in need of additional officers (Secretary, Treasurer and Webmaster) or just people to help! Please contact one of us if you are able to lend a hand.

If you are here it means you already know about our new domain name: OSWCU.TMC.ORG. We are now being hosted at the TMC.ORG web site. Please pass our URL on to anyone you may think would be interested.

We plan on making this web site the central communication point for this organization, so check here first for the latest news or information. As we get more things up and running, we will add more to the site.