User Groups

One new SolidWorks User Group, and a couple of new user group leaders make their debuts over the next week. First up, Kelly Frazier takes over the helm at the Colorado SolidWorks User Group tonight in Boulder, CO.  Next in

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For the first two hours of today’s SWERFA meeting, I heard two words I understood – "SolidWorks" and "SpaceBall".  Things got a little better when presentations by local resellers included "DriveWorksExpress", "3DVia Composer", and "PDMWorks Enterprise".  Now I was up

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But not Dublin, Ireland (interesting coincidence).  On September 10th, I’ll be in Dublin, California for the Tri-Valley SolidWorks User Group meeting where I’ll meet up with some real superstars of the SolidWorks Community.  Kenneth Barrentine, Matt Lorono, and Gabi Jack

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SolidWorks users in and around Dublin, Ireland are about to get a new SolidWorks user group.  Philip Prendeville leads the newly formed SolidWorks User Group of Ireland, and is busy putting together the inaugural meeting.  Philip has been active in

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Last night’s CTSUG meeting was officially scheduled to end at 8:45pm.  When the first session ran a little long, it didn’t leave Sal Lama a lot of extra time to do his presentation.  At 9:00pm the room was still full,

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I forgot to tun off the office phone ringer last night, and when it rang at 8:15pm, I had to run across the house to answer it.  I’m glad I did.  Craig Bilenki, group leader for the new B-MORE SolidWorks

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Last night’s SASUG (pronounced "sausage" by the members) meeting was great as usual.  Some familiar names were on hand to present – Webb Shoenfeld and Bruce Buck did terrific presentations (get those abstracts in guys), the BBQ was good (no

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I attended the NTSUG meeting last week which was graciously hosted by Special Products and Manufacturing, Inc of Rockwall, Texas.  SPM did a great job hosting the meeting, starting off with a quick and interesting presentation on their company and

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The SWUGN website hosts an individual page (example) for each of the 140 worldwide SolidWorks User Groups.  On each individual page is an email link that you can use to get more information about a particular group.  An email is

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Central Texas SolidWorks User Group leader Bill Casnovsky submitted a meeting calendar request last night with a little mystery included: 6:15pm – 7:00pm == Special Topic – Can’t talk about it yet. Hmmm…I’m curious.  Oh yeah, Sal Lama will be

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A powerful Nor’easter can bring travel to a standstill, close city streets and make it nearly impossible to get anywhere for days.  Luckily, this particular storm won’t bring any snow.  The North Eastern SolidWorks User Conference is the brainchild of

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It may surprise you to know that most groups in the SolidWorks User Group Network carry the same leadership year after year.  SolidWorks User Group leaders are special people, spending many hours of their own time to help keep fellow

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Today we welcome the State of Hawaii to the SolidWorks User Group network with the addition of the CAD Users of the Big Island SolidWorks User Group.  Group leader Michael Hess has worked through the challenge of widely scattered SolidWorks

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On August 5th, members of several user groups will converge on the campus of the University of Wisconsin to meet with SolidWorks CEO Jeff Ray and members of the SolidWorks Product Development team, and get a first class tour of

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That’s how I told Chris White I would describe last week’s Ontario SolidWorks User Group meeting.  116 people were treated to a terrific Tips and Tricks session by Javelin’s Eric van Essen, Jon Hirschtick’s unique insights, and a lot of

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