{"id":33511,"date":"2007-11-19T14:58:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T19:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/this-one-cracke"},"modified":"2007-11-19T14:58:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T19:58:43","slug":"this-one-cracke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/11\/this-one-cracke.html","title":{"rendered":"This One Cracked Me Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lila Theis, former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=210\">SASUG<\/a> group leader and SWUGN Lifetime Achievement award recipient, sent a note to her colleagues referring to an article I wrote for Cadalyst on the <a href=\"https:\/\/manufacturing.cadalyst.com\/manufacturing\/article\/articleDetail.jsp?id=452767\">SolidWorks 2008 interface<\/a>.&nbsp; The next day I received an email from another good friend:<\/p>\n<p><em>I haven&#8217;t read your article yet; I don&#8217;t know what the changes are, but I know I don&#8217;t like them.&nbsp; What were you people thinking?!<\/em><br \/><em>-H<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To know &quot;-H&quot; is to really appreciate her dry sense of humor, and this simple one-line message made me laugh out loud.&nbsp; This morning, I received another email:<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ve been using SolidWorks 2008 over the past three weeks&#8230;it&#8217;s been kinda fun.<br \/>-H<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s high praise indeed from -H.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the DVD&#8217;s have shipped, and SolidWorks users are starting to install and use SolidWorks 2008 in production, I&#8217;ve seen similar &quot;reversals&quot; in opinion.&nbsp; From the initial shock of the massive UI overhaul, to high acceptance of the changes, SolidWorks users are rapidly adapting and learning to be far more productive with SolidWorks 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lila Theis, former SASUG group leader and SWUGN Lifetime Achievement award recipient, sent a note to her colleagues referring to an article I wrote for Cadalyst on the SolidWorks 2008 interface.&nbsp; The next day I received an email from another<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/11\/this-one-cracke.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-33511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33511","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=33511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}