Get Hands On with SOLIDWORKS Manufacturing Solutions at Interactive Test-Drive Experience

If you’re a professional in the manufacturing industry looking to enhance efficiency and streamline your design-to-production process, the SOLIDWORKS Interactive Test Drive Experience is an opportunity you shouldn’t miss. Taking place on July 30, 2025, at SCC Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, this event is tailored to empower professionals like you with the knowledge and tools to overcome shop floor challenges and innovate with confidence. Keep reading to discover why this is a hands-on event that is a must-attend.

Hands-On Learning with Real-World Impact

This isn’t your typical software demo. The SOLIDWORKS Interactive Test Drive Experience is designed around real-world manufacturing workflows, offering practical insights for your daily operations. Whether you specialize in machining, robotics, design, or plant layout, you’ll work directly with cutting-edge tools that address your industry’s challenges.

“This isn’t about theory or fluff. It’s about showing you how SOLIDWORKS can solve real shop floor problems—faster, smarter, and more collaboratively than ever before.”

Mike Buchli, SOLIDWORKS Manufacturing expert.

Expert-Led Sessions Tailored to Your Needs

The event will feature four targeted sessions, each led by experts dedicated to making complex manufacturing processes more streamlined and effective:

• Weldment Design Tips & Tricks: Master time-saving techniques for cut lists, custom profiles, and end treatments to optimize your structural designs.

• Shop Floor Programmer: Learn to generate CNC programs for 2.5-, 3-, and 3+2-axis operations, automatically detect machinable features, and perform manufacturability checks—right from your SOLIDWORKS parts.

• Robot Programming: Explore simulation and validation for robot tasks, such as arc welding and pick-and-place operations. Connect motion control and sensors to ensure seamless execution in a virtual environment.

• Virtual Factory Tools: Visually plan your shop floor layout, simulate workflows, and pinpoint potential bottlenecks before implementing costly physical changes.

These sessions were developed specifically to provide attendees with actionable skills that can be applied immediately to boost efficiency and productivity within your operations.

Why This Event Matters

The manufacturing landscape is more dynamic than ever, requiring tools and strategies that enable you to operate smarter, faster, and more collaboratively. Attending this event isn’t just an investment in your skills—it’s an investment in strengthening your organization’s competitive edge.

Key Benefits of Attending

• Experience Innovation Firsthand: Get hands-on with the latest SOLIDWORKS tools, exploring how they can streamline processes and address shop floor challenges.

• Learn from Proven Experts: Gain insights directly from seasoned professionals who understand the real-world applications of advanced manufacturing solutions.

• Expand Your Network: Connect with other manufacturing professionals and share ideas, insights, and strategies to tackle shared challenges.

• Walk Away with Practical Skills: Leave the event equipped with knowledge and tools that can drive efficiencies and innovations in your business.

The hands-on format ensures that this experience is not purely theoretical. It’s designed to deliver results by addressing pain points in design, machining, and factory planning, giving you a clear roadmap to turn concepts into actions.

Don’t Wait—Seats Are Limited

To ensure a high-impact experience for every participant, attendance is limited. That means this event will fill up quickly, so act fast to secure your spot.

📅 Event Details:

• Date: July 30, 2025

• Location: SCC Lincoln, Sandhills Global Technology Center

• Time: 9 AM – 3 PM (Lunch included)

Register Today

Take the next step toward improving your design-to-manufacturing workflow by registering here. Explore how SOLIDWORKS can help you overcome today’s challenges while preparing for tomorrow’s opportunities.

Stay for the Nebraska SOLIDWORKS User Group Meeting

Right after this information-packed afternoon session ends, stay for the Nebraska SWUGN meeting, which is co-located with the SOLIDWORKS Test Drive event. Meet your host and the new User Group Leader for the Nebraska SWUG, Lynette Frey, one of our Women in Tech panelists at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025, and an outstanding example of a woman in Engineering. Check out this blog post about Lynette.

The Details:

Date: Wednesday, July 30
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 PM
Location: Southeast Community College, Lincoln, NE
Sandhills Global Technology Building; Room: SGT 104

Agenda:

3:30 PM – Arrive at Southeast Community College

3:35 – 3:40 PM – SWUGONE comments

3:45 – 5 PM – Tour of the Southeast Community College Welding Technology Center, a 96,000-square-foot facility currently under construction.

The goal of this new facility, with an estimated construction cost of $33 million, is to provide safe, efficient training opportunities and serve as a hub for different stakeholders in Lincoln and surrounding communities for years to come. The new facility will include more than 23,000 square feet of modern learning and training spaces, including:

• Two modern and innovative labs with 196 welding bays for both students and the workforce, hands-on learning, and training.
• Nine dynamic and interactive classrooms are dedicated to both student instruction and workforce training and instruction.
• A 1,800 square-foot testing lab and a 3,900 square-foot fabrication lab.
• Community building space for students and faculty. The expected finish date is mid-July 2025.

4:30pm – 5:00 PM – Q&A, Wrap up, and next meeting topics & date

Register today! Please RSVP to:
swugone@gmail.com by Friday, July 25th.

Innovation begins with action. We look forward to seeing you there!