Now It's Time for Some Crab Cakes
While the attendance at the Baltimore Summit won’t break any records, we did have a great bunch of SolidWorks users show up. The presenters were top-notch…my thanks to Devon Sowell, Matt Lombard, Derek Meyers, Greg Jankowski, and Joe Galleria for
... ContinuedEveryone's Doing the Download Thing
SolidWorks 2009 Beta is now available for download to subscription service customers. Visit the Customer Portal to get your hands on it now! The beta forums are heating up as well – so far a lot of messages wondering when
... ContinuedSWUGN Summit – Baltimore
Registration is open for the SWUGN Summit – Baltimore. The event will be held on Tuesday, June 17th (near the BWI Airport) and features some really good presenters, including Greg Jankowski who will be doing sessions on CAD Management and
... ContinuedSLC Joins the SolidWorks User Group Network
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
... ContinuedWatch What You Wear
Gabi Jack learns the hard way what might happen when you’re sporting your SolidWorks attire. Has this ever happened to you?
... ContinuedSESWUW Wrap Up
Matt does a nice job of wrapping up the Southeast SolidWorks User Workshop in Columbia, SC. I’ll add my congratulations to Tony Cantrell for pulling together a great event. Tony’s already looking forward to doing it again next year. On
... ContinuedThe End of the Two-Day User Events? Hardly.
When Mark Peters retired last year from the SWUGN Committee, I thought it would also be the end of two day, user run events. The Midwest SolidWorks User Conference outlasted them all, running for five straight years and helping hundreds
... ContinuedMr. Tips and Tricks and the Red River Rivalry
Phil Sluder, aka "Mr. Tips and Tricks", spent a good deal of time last week shuffling between Texas and Oklahoma. Phil was one of the terrific presenters at the SWUGN Summit – Oklahoma City attended by more than 60 SolidWorks
... ContinuedSWUGN Spotlight – Twin Cities COSMOS User Group
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
... ContinuedMore SolidWorks Food for Thought
All of the sudden, it’s getting popular to model food in SolidWorks. First it was Richard Williams and his Pasta Bridge. Today I got an email from an old friend – Catherine Norman (nee Wright) of MLC Cad Systems in
... ContinuedThere's Community, and Then There's Community
When it comes to SolidWorks (and engineering in general), what does Community mean to you? User Groups? Forums? 3D Content Central? None of the above? That’s what we’d like to find out. SolidWorks Corporation has developed a comprehensive survey to
... ContinuedOn Top of Spaghetti…
..or more precisely, fettuccine. Richard Williams is bridging the gap between mechanical engineering and pasta. I got some new pictures from Richard last night showing the progress he’s made – I hope they make it into his blog soon.
... ContinuedDivided We Stand, United We Conquer
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
... ContinuedSoutheast SolidWorks User Workshop
Tony Cantrell runs a little ol’ user group in Columbia, SC, home of the South Carolina Fighting Gamecocks, the 2005 NCAA Equestrian National Champions. They’ve also had a couple of well known football coaches (Lou Holtz and Steve Spurrier). But
... ContinuedSWUGN Spotlight – North Alabama SolidWorks User Group
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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