{"id":33580,"date":"2008-08-27T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/hosted-user-gro"},"modified":"2008-08-27T11:05:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T15:05:46","slug":"hosted-user-gro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/08\/hosted-user-gro.html","title":{"rendered":"Hosted User Group Meetings – A Really Good Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended the NTSUG<\/a> meeting last week which was graciously hosted by Special Products and Manufacturing, Inc<\/a> of Rockwall, Texas.  SPM did a great job hosting the meeting, starting off with a quick and interesting presentation on their company and the company’s capabilities.  No sales pitch, just a quick look at their equipment, processes, and company vision.  Add some nice sandwich trays and side dishes, and that could have been enough.  <\/p>\n

They also did a very good SolidWorks presentation on getting the most from your sheet metal supplier.  Jim Owens went through the SPM Design Guide and offered a lot of suggestions on setting up your sheet metal models – showing examples in SolidWorks where applicable.  Every attendee that wanted one was presented with a hard-copy of the guide, and a few other very nice documents that even a novice sheet metal designer could use to ensure that parts are easier and cheaper to manufacture.<\/p>\n

The plant tour was definitely the highlight of the evening.  It was well organized, thorough, and very interesting.  There was plenty to see – lots of examples of parts they’ve produced, robotic welding and grinding centers, and the steady pounding of turret punches cranking out a myriad of different sheet metal parts.  Several SPM representatives were on hand in each area of the shop to answer questions – a nice touch!<\/p>\n

Kudos to group leader Christie Buresh for putting this meeting together.  A lot of NTSUG members drove an extra 20 – 30 miles to attend, and nobody left disappointed.<\/p>\n

If your group ever gets the chance to have a company like SPM host a meeting, jump at the opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I attended the NTSUG meeting last week which was graciously hosted by Special Products and Manufacturing, Inc of Rockwall, Texas.  SPM did a great job hosting the meeting, starting off with a quick and interesting presentation on their company and<\/p>\n... 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-33580","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\/33580","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=33580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}