{"id":33371,"date":"2006-06-08T10:29:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/making_friends_"},"modified":"2006-06-08T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T14:29:14","slug":"making_friends_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2006\/06\/making_friends_.html","title":{"rendered":"Making Friends in the SolidWorks Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devon Sowell of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3-ddesignsolutions.com\/\">3D Design Solutions<\/a> in Carlsbad, CA registered early for the SWUGN Summit.&nbsp; While that&#8217;s not unusual, the Summit event he registered for was Boston, nearly 2600 miles from home.&nbsp; I asked Devon what made him decide to attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/summit\/SWUGN_Technical_Summit_Boston.html\">Boston event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The main reason I am attending is the opportunity to see some of my friends again.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been lucky to make many new friends within the SolidWorks Community.&nbsp; SolidWorks users as a group are knowledgeable, helpful, and fun to be with.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Devon has also graciously offered to share some of his technical expertise with attendees at the SWUGN Summit &#8211; Boston.&nbsp; If you are planning to attend, make sure you check out his weldments presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devon Sowell of 3D Design Solutions in Carlsbad, CA registered early for the SWUGN Summit.&nbsp; While that&#8217;s not unusual, the Summit event he registered for was Boston, nearly 2600 miles from home.&nbsp; I asked Devon what made him decide to<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2006\/06\/making_friends_.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}