Event | Date | Details |
| v-CAx Lab is renamed CADLab | August 2015 | The v-CAx Lab has been renamed the CADLab to reflect the variety of CAD and CAx related topics that are researched in this lab. |
| Center of Excellence for Cybersecurity Education | July 2012 | BYU has been designated as a Center of Excellence by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security for it’s cybersecurity education, partly through efforts of Dale Rowe, member of the v-CAx research faculty. |
| New v-CAx Media Room | Feb 2012 | Announcing our new multi-user media and conference room - paid from BYU funds and not from member funds! See this PPT LINK |
| BYU to host Center IAB Meeting | Oct. 11-13, 2011 | BYU will host the Center for e-Design semi-annual IAB Meeting at the Provo Marriott, with BYU tours, entertainment, dinner, etc....great place...great time of the year! |
| New multi-user prototypes developed | June 2011 | We have developed new multi-user prototypes using Catia CAD and Cubit FEA |
| v-CAx I/UCRC Site awarded by NSF! | Feb. 15, 2011 | BYU's v-CAx site officially joins the Center for e-Design consortium. Now to improve multi-user collaboration within CAx tools! |
| Proposal for v-CAx site submitted to NSF | Sept. 26, 2010 | After receiving required member commitments from very notable companies, BYU submitted the formal proposal to NSF requesting formal admisssion to the Center for e-Design as a new site, focusing on multi-user CAx. |
| v-CAx Planning Meeting Held | Aug. 11-13, 2010 | 16 companies and 29 people attended the planning meeting. In general the attendees were enthusiastic about the projects presented, providing excellent feedback and direction. The meeting was held in parallel with a similar meeting at the Univ. of Puerto Rico using WebEx and conference call audio, with no major problems in video-conferencing. |
| v-CAx Planning Meeting Scheduled | Aug. 11-13, 2010 | To be held at the famous Snowbird resort, outside of Salt Lake City |
| Planning Meeting planning has begun! | March 2010 | You will be contacted in preparation for our first Planning Meeting. We are aiming for the mid-July to mid-August time frame. We will use Survey Monkey input for member preferences. |
| BYU Mechanical Engineering receives NSF I/UCRC Planning Grant for v-CAx | Feb 2010 | The Planning Grant Meeting is planned for the summer of 2010. Industry members will be contacted in the Spring for meeting place/time accessibility. The meeting will be used to determine the first set of projects to be conducted as v-CAX R&D and used to submit the final NSF proposal for joining the Center for e-Design Consortium. |
| NXConnect Prototype Works! | 2009 | The v-CAx research group developed an early multi-user CAD prototype built on Siemens NX software, using the NX API. Using a Client-Server implementation and C# programming, graduate students adapted a popular commercial software application for multi-users. |
