{"id":33558,"date":"2008-07-23T11:19:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T15:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/one-of-the-larg"},"modified":"2008-07-23T11:19:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T15:19:34","slug":"one-of-the-larg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/07\/one-of-the-larg.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;One of the Largest Ever&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how I told Chris White I would describe last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=325\">Ontario SolidWorks User Group<\/a> meeting.&nbsp; 116 people were treated to a terrific Tips and Tricks session by Javelin&#8217;s Eric van Essen, Jon Hirschtick&#8217;s unique insights, and a lot of really good food.<\/p>\n<p>Among the attendees were Scott Nelson (good to see you again Scott), and Aldo Balatti, whom I was told was the very first SolidWorks user in Canada (with 99.5% certainty &#8211; good enough for me).<\/p>\n<p>Javelin Technologies lent great support to the meeting &#8211; Ted Lee kept things moving along, and Kasey Bayne and Lauren Murdoch deserve a lot of the credit for pulling the whole thing together.&nbsp; It was first class all the way.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Vera of CADMech Design did a great write-up of the meeting, and gave me another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadmech.com\/blog\/?p=28\">SolidWorks blog<\/a> to add to my list.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulation Chris on a great meeting.&nbsp; No, it wasn&#8217;t the largest ever, but it was <strong>REALLY<\/strong> close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how I told Chris White I would describe last week&#8217;s Ontario SolidWorks User Group meeting.&nbsp; 116 people were treated to a terrific Tips and Tricks session by Javelin&#8217;s Eric van Essen, Jon Hirschtick&#8217;s unique insights, and a lot of<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/07\/one-of-the-larg.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-33558","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\/33558","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=33558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}