{"id":33456,"date":"2007-03-23T07:05:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/a_swugn_gatheri"},"modified":"2007-03-23T07:05:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T11:05:49","slug":"a_swugn_gatheri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/03\/a_swugn_gatheri.html","title":{"rendered":"A SWUGN Gathering in the Valley of the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thing I like best about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/summit\/SWUGN_Technical_Summit.html\">SWUGN Summit<\/a> events is the unique technical sessions that are presented by local users.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t get a chance to see the session by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profilestool.com\/index.php\">Zach Wilsterman<\/a>, but I did catch Anna Wood&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/designsmarter.typepad.com\/solidmuse\/2007\/01\/minimum_content.html\">Reduced Dimension Drawings<\/a> presentation.&nbsp; It&#8217;s one thing to learn a few tips and tricks during a presentation, but quite another to learn about how companies are using new methodologies to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve time to market.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great day in Phoenix.&nbsp; Special thanks to Zach, Anna, and DDi&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.ddicad.com\/\">Lou Gallo<\/a> for their help in setting up the event.&nbsp; Thanks also to Devon Sowell for traveling all the way from San Diego to present two sessions, and of course Patrick and Kurtis from SolidWorks.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re moving on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/summit\/SWUGN_Technical_Summit_KC.html\">Kansas City<\/a> April 24th where Wayne Tiffany is already hard at work trying to top last years KC Summit.&nbsp; Registration is open &#8211; don&#8217;t miss out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing I like best about the SWUGN Summit events is the unique technical sessions that are presented by local users.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t get a chance to see the session by Zach Wilsterman, but I did catch Anna Wood&#8217;s Reduced<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/03\/a_swugn_gatheri.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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33456","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=33456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}