{"id":33378,"date":"2006-11-10T13:17:16","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T18:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/solidworks_user_2"},"modified":"2006-11-10T13:17:16","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T18:17:16","slug":"solidworks_user_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2006\/11\/solidworks_user_2.html","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks User Group &#8211; Pune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished up my trip to India with a visit to the SolidWorks User Group of Pune on Thursday.&nbsp; The Pune group is the longest running group in India, having formed in 2005.&nbsp; This was their third meeting and it was a good one.&nbsp; 35 users and a host of reseller reps were treated to four presentations during the four hour meeting.&nbsp; This group really knows how to engage the speakers too, with questions flying and even a suggestion or two from the crowd during my Tips and Tricks session.&nbsp; At the end of the meeting, group leader Kiran Bellary announced the formation of a committee to help the group grow and ease some of the pressure of running the group.&nbsp; Seven (yep, SEVEN) members volunteered to become part of the user group board.&nbsp; I was introduced to each one of them and could see how enthusiastic they were about going forward.<\/p>\n<p>One presentation that stood out for me was a short case study from a user at Dran Engineers.&nbsp; When I first arrived in India, I was impressed by the most used form of transportation &#8211; the Auto Rickshaw.&nbsp; Wouldn&#8217;t you know it, the case study was a look at a SolidWorks design of a weld fixture for Auto Rickshaws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/autorickshaw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Autorickshaw\" height=\"86\" alt=\"Autorickshaw\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/autorickshaw_sm.jpg\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a fabulous trip to our user groups in India.&nbsp; I&#8217;m running off to the airport to catch a 3:05am flight for the 28 hour trip home.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be back in Texas Sunday, then off to Tampa for the SWUGN Summit early next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished up my trip to India with a visit to the SolidWorks User Group of Pune on Thursday.&nbsp; The Pune group is the longest running group in India, having formed in 2005.&nbsp; This was their third meeting and it<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2006\/11\/solidworks_user_2.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-groups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33378","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=33378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}