Well, I’ve been back all week, I’ve just neglected the blog a bit.<\/p>\n
The user group road trip was a huge success, with stops in Omaha, Detroit, and Racine (Milwaukee). <\/p>\n
The Nebraska group meeting was attended by more than 70 users, and we had a great time at the venue. The Strategic Air and Space Museum<\/a> was a terrific place to hold a meeting, thanks go out to group leader Todd Blacksher, and Dick Longoria of Tridaq for making it happen.<\/p>\n The Eastern Michigan group meeting was huge!! A little over 100 attendees, 8 vendor booths, and some great presentations. Robert Meitzler has done a wonderful job with this group and it just keeps growing. I got to see a few people that I’ve met over the years through my association with SolidWorks. Deb Dowding<\/a>, whom I first met at SolidWorks World, has been a long-time friend of the SolidWorks Community. Deb is in the initial stages of setting up a user group in the Jackson\/Battle Creek area of Michigan – look for an announcement soon. I also got a chance to visit briefly with Dan Bovinich of SWCAD<\/a> fame. Dan has been a very active in the community for many years, and his "Working with Solids" website is very cool.<\/p>\n Off I went to Racine, Wisconsin for my first Midwest Region SolidWorks User Conference. Now in its fourth year, the show brought nearly 250 people together for two days of technical sessions, a vendor fair, food, and lots of great people. I met plenty of SolidWorks users, most notably Lenny Kikstra, who asked me to pass along the news of his new website – lennyworks.com<\/a> – check it out, the macro and "tips and tricks" sections alone are worth the visit. The Midwest conference will extend its run to five years next October, and I hope to make a return trip.<\/p>\n I wasn’t able to wrangle a visit to the Colorado User Group meeting the same week, but group leader Gerald Davis has a nice write-up<\/a> on the COSUG website.<\/p>\n I’m staying home for a couple of weeks before heading out the the next SWUGN Summit<\/a> in San Diego. If you’re in the area, I hope you’ll join us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I’ve been back all week, I’ve just neglected the blog a bit. The user group road trip was a huge success, with stops in Omaha, Detroit, and Racine (Milwaukee). The Nebraska group meeting was attended by more than 70<\/p>\n... 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33390","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=33390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}