CAD Managers Boot Camp at SOLIDWORKS World 2015

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Greg Jankowski
Greg Jankowski

Do you know which technical session at SOLIDWORKS World attracts the most attendees?  If you guessed the CAD Managers Boot Camp, you are correct.  Greg Jankowski has been leading this session since 2005, and 600 to 900 SOLIDWORKS World attendees take advantage of this pre-conference session for good reason – it’s packed with information that everyone can use.

The official description doesn’t begin to tell the story:

CAD Manager’s Boot Camp

Explore a wide range of topics and issues to help you effectively deploy and manage SOLIDWORKS software. The goal of the camp is to show system administrators and IT personnel how they can use a combination of IT and CAD best practices, tools, and methodologies to reduce the total cost of ownership and maximize their investment in SOLIDWORKS software.

There’s so much more to the Boot Camp, including (but not limited to);

TECHNICAL RESOURCES
›Finding resources and search
›SOLIDWORKS Customer Portal, Forums, and Knowledge Base
›MySOLIDWORKS
›Documentation (intranets, best practices, and standards)
›Other available resources

COMPUTERS AND NETWORKS
›Configuring a CAD workstation
›Where is the performance bottleneck?
›Managing computers
›System maintenance

INSTALLATION
›Installation related references and overview
›Common practices
›Using the SOLIDWORKS Installation Manager
›Configuring SOLIDWORKS

ADMINISTERING SOLIDWORKS
›Best practices
›Configuring SOLIDWORKS
›Templates and custom properties
›License management and product activation
›Being a good CAD Manager
›Training, evaluation, and planning
›Mentoring and super-users
›API and macros

MANAGING YOUR DATA
›Why it’s important
›Options for data management

TROUBLSHOOTING AND MANAGING ISSUES
›Reporting issues and issue management
›Troubleshooting
›SOLIDWORKS Rx

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
›Tying it all together
›Plan for success—metrics, expectations, and proactive management
›User Groups

The CAD Managers Boot Camp is scheduled for Sunday, February 8th, 1:00pm to 5:00pm.  Preregistration is required, but I’ve never seen anyone turned away from this session.  The room number should be announced soon.

Richard Doyle

Richard Doyle

My official title is Senior User Advocacy & SolidWorks User Groups - but most people just call me "The User Group Guy". I've been a SolidWorks user since 1997, and was one of the founding members of the SWUGN Committee. Since starting the Central Texas SolidWorks User Group in 1999, my career path has led me to DS SolidWorks and a dream job supporting the SolidWorks User Group Network worldwide.
Richard Doyle

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