{"id":33549,"date":"2008-04-02T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/swugn-spotlight"},"modified":"2008-04-02T15:17:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T19:17:47","slug":"swugn-spotlight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/04\/swugn-spotlight-2.html","title":{"rendered":"SWUGN Spotlight &#8211; Eastern Michigan SolidWorks User Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2005, Robert Meitzler put together the first meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=196\">Eastern Michigan SolidWorks User Group<\/a>.&nbsp; Over 90 SolidWorks users attended the inaugural meeting &#8211; that may still be record for a first meeting.&nbsp; Since then, the group hasn&#8217;t let up and retains the distinction of being SWUGN&#8217;s largest user group.&nbsp; There has been one significant change however &#8211; new leadership.&nbsp; Dan &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swcad.com\/\">Ditto Dan<\/a>&quot; Bovinich took over when Robert retired last year, and has served Robert&#8217;s legacy well.<\/p>\n<p>Based near Detroit, Michigan, EMSWUG typically meets every other month.&nbsp; After a few trials, the group has decided that daytime meetings best fit the needs of its members.&nbsp; Meetings always open with lunch (good food too!), and follow with at least two technical presentations.&nbsp; EMSWUG maintains a terrific <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emswug.com\/index.html\">website<\/a> for its members, and has a really great relationship with the local resellers.<\/p>\n<p>Dan sent me a little summary of the most recent EMSWUG meeting with some of the highlights.&nbsp; In addition to the large turnout, what amazed me most was the fact that 30 new users showed up for this meeting. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a SolidWorks user in or near Detroit, you owe it to yourself to attend the next meeting (~May).&nbsp; Dan puts on a terrific meeting, and I guarantee you&#8217;ll enjoy it and learn a lot about SolidWorks in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2005, Robert Meitzler put together the first meeting of the Eastern Michigan SolidWorks User Group.&nbsp; Over 90 SolidWorks users attended the inaugural meeting &#8211; that may still be record for a first meeting.&nbsp; Since then, the group hasn&#8217;t<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/04\/swugn-spotlight-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-33549","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\/33549","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=33549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}