In the fall of 1999, several SolidWorks user group leaders were contacted by Carol Faiola, a Marketing representative at SolidWorks Corporation. I was one of the lucky ones along with Mark Peters, Michelle Pillers, and Scott Bemis that were asked to travel to Concord for a discussion about SolidWorks User Groups.
Over the course of the day-long meeting, we kicked around a lot of ideas and put a plan in place to create a national body that would help broaden the reach of SolidWorks User Groups.
The SolidWorks National User Group (SNUG) was born that day and became an official body on March 7th, 2000. 10 years later SNUG is now known as SWUGN (SolidWorks User Group Network), but the mission remains the same - bringing SolidWorks users together to learn from each other.
Over the course of our week long celebration, we'll look back over the last ten years of the SWUGN Committee and the SolidWorks User Group Network. Some pretty amazing things have happened since that day in 1999, and I am extremely happy to have been a part of it.
Congratulations to you Mr. Doyle and all of the others that started with this great idea. It must be going great because we finally got our very own user group out here in Las Vegas. Take care.
Posted by: Corporal Willy | March 08, 2010 at 07:18 PM
I cleaned out my registry and now solidworks "utilities" will not initialize. What is the registry entry I need to replace? (solidworks 2010 office premium)
Thank you
Posted by: Keith Robinson | September 08, 2011 at 08:42 AM