User Groups

I’ll be visiting two user group meetings this week in Toronto, Ontario and Rochester, New York.  Chris White and Richard Matthews of the Ontario SolidWorks and COSMOS User Groups will be hosting Jon Hirschtick on Wednesday the 16th, and I’m

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The Tri-State SolidWorks User Group has been around for a long time.  I finally got to meet some of the group members, and the former group leader, at a SWUGN Summit event last September.  Dave Burbrink had already informed me

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Nope, they’re not football signals.  The numbers represent the attendance for the past three meetings of the New Hampshire SolidWorks User Group.  Thanks in great part to the efforts of Cindy Berend, NH-SWUG has emerged as a force to be

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One of the best SWUGN success stories over the past few years has been the Central MA/Northern CT SolidWorks User Group.  Superbly managed by a 4 person committee – Ed "The Mad Scientist" Gebo, Randy "The Traveler" Lennox, Tom "The

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It’s official, Salt Lake City joins SWUGN with the Northern Utah SolidWorks User Group.  Colin Heald and Chad Clarke head up the new group which is planning its first meeting for August 20th. In addition, Colin and Chad will be

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What do you get when you take a (self-admitted) rookie SolidWorks user with little or no FEA experience, a huge metro area with two terrific user groups (1 and 2), and a bunch of COSMOS users without a place to

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As a whole, the SolidWorks Community is pretty tight-knit – user group leaders have their own private discussion area, dozens of them meet yearly at SolidWorks World, and plenty of them keep in touch all year.  More and more, user

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One of the most active SolidWorks User Groups in the world resides in Huntsville, Alabama – The North Alabama SolidWorks User Group.  Resurrected nearly three years ago by Ricky Jordan, NASWUG has steadily increased membership, added more meetings, and has

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I can’t help but have a certain fondness for the Central Texas SolidWorks User Group.  Formed in September of 1999, it was the first independent SolidWorks User Group in Texas.  The original membership consisted of SolidWorks users from the Austin

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Billed as the Alberta SolidWorks User Groups Summit, The Calgary SolidWorks User Group Society and the Edmonton SolidWorks User Group are holding a combined meeting on May 3rd in Red Deer, Alberta. Edmonton group leader Laurise Chedid (whom you may

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In September 2005, Robert Meitzler put together the first meeting of the Eastern Michigan SolidWorks User Group.  Over 90 SolidWorks users attended the inaugural meeting – that may still be record for a first meeting.  Since then, the group hasn’t

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If there’s a sure-fire way to double the attendance at a user group meeting, it’s an appearance by SolidWorks CEO Jeff Ray.  Each of the three groups that Jeff visited last week upped their average attendance by at least 100%.

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Okay, the NEOSWUG meeting was actually in Painesville, Ohio, but that doesn’t lend itself to a Drew Carey reference.  Still, when 104 SolidWorks users show up for a user group meeting, it rocks! Dan Bertschi put together quite a lineup,

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A visit from Jeff Ray usually draws a few extra SolidWorks users to a local meeting.  Such was the case last night in Columbus as nearly 50 people turned out to hear what Jeff had to say.  We were also

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We had a gentle reminder here in Texas that spring doesn’t necessarily mean warm, sunny weather every day.  Why, it was a blustery 54 degrees here on Easter Sunday.  With a warming trend coming this week, it makes perfect sense

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