{"id":33471,"date":"2007-06-13T17:09:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/charlotte_north"},"modified":"2007-06-13T17:09:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T21:09:12","slug":"charlotte_north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/06\/charlotte_north.html","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte, North Carolina &#8211; Group Leader Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McEleney continued his user group tour with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=204\">Charlotte SolidWorks User Group<\/a> on Tuesday, and the local user group leaders turned out in full force.&nbsp; In addition to Charlotte group leader Van Phifer, We also had Rodney Hall (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=361\">Hickory, Catawba Valley<\/a> &#8211; come on Rodney, make up your mind), Wes Cobb (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=290\">WNC-Asheville<\/a>), and Matt Lombard (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=228\">SWUGN, Charlottesville<\/a>) join us for another terrific meeting.&nbsp; It was a star-studded lineup indeed.<\/p>\n<p>The venue was something a little out of the ordinary for a user group meeting.&nbsp; The City Towers in Charlotte offered spectacular views of the city, and the City Club room we used was something right out of &quot;Trading Places&quot; (remember the Heritage Club?).&nbsp; There was a bit of scrambling around to figure out the best place for presenters, and eventually we were able to hook right into the HDTV hanging from the wall.&nbsp; Special thanks to Mike Voll of Trimech for helping to set up the event.<\/p>\n<p>Dave LeBlanc, a SolidWorks developer out of the Madison, WI office was also on-hand, and did a great job with the drawings presentation.&nbsp; Thanks Dave &#8211; the session was very well received.<\/p>\n<p>As I finish this post, I&#8217;m waiting for Tom Ellis and the rest of the crew from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=206\">Atlanta Metro SolidWorks User Group<\/a>, the last stop on the Southern Swing.&nbsp; Next week, the State of Texas has the honor and privilege to host SolidWorks COO Jeff Ray.&nbsp; I&#8217;m looking forward to the meetings in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=159\">Houston<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=210\">San Antonio<\/a>, And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=334\">Austin<\/a>&#8230;and being home for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McEleney continued his user group tour with the Charlotte SolidWorks User Group on Tuesday, and the local user group leaders turned out in full force.&nbsp; In addition to Charlotte group leader Van Phifer, We also had Rodney Hall (Hickory,<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/06\/charlotte_north.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-33471","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\/33471","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=33471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}