{"id":55489,"date":"2024-07-26T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=55489"},"modified":"2024-07-17T15:48:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T19:48:01","slug":"2023-solidworks-champion-of-the-year-eric-beatty-visits-dassault-systemes-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2024\/07\/2023-solidworks-champion-of-the-year-eric-beatty-visits-dassault-systemes-hq.html","title":{"rendered":"2023 SOLIDWORKS Champion of the Year Eric Beatty Visits Dassault Syst\u00e8mes HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June, Dassault Syst\u00e8mes hosted our <em>SOLIDWORKS 2023 Champion of the Year<\/em>, <strong>Eric Beatty<\/strong>, at our headquarters in V\u00e9lizy, France. \u00a0Eric has been exceptional in his unparalleled dedication and devotion to using SOLIDWORKS and constantly sharing his knowledge with so many others \u2013 either in user group meetings or in the <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.solidworks.com\/catalog\">SOLIDWORKS User Forum<\/a> for the last 28 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/eric20beatty20and20fred20vacher-scaled.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During Eric\u2019s HQ campus visit, he had the opportunity to engage with the Vice-President 3DS Global Brand executive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ds.com\/about\/company\/leadership\/philippe-laufer\">Philippe Laufer<\/a>, meet members of the <strong>3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE platform R&amp;D team to discuss the innovative work and ongoing projects under way in that department, and experience the cutting-edge projects being imagined and developed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/3dexperiencelab.3ds.com\/\"><strong>3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE Lab<\/a>. It was a remarkable occasion where our team could personally express their gratitude and appreciation for Eric&#8217;s long-standing commitment and invaluable contributions to the SOLIDWORKS community.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/eric20beatty20and20philippe20laufer-scaled.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The endless enthusiasm and passion Eric has shared over the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">years<\/span> <em>decades<\/em> with the SOLIDWORKS community, and the impact he has had on users around the world has been profound and we were so happy to recognize and celebrate Eric\u2019s contributions with the visit. His dedication is really proven by his activity numbers from our SOLIDWORKS communities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Over <strong>2,000<\/strong> answers that enable other users in the <em>SOLIDWORKS User Forum<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Over <strong>240<\/strong> answers in <em>SOLIDWORKS News &amp; Info<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Over <strong>200<\/strong> engagements encouraging and helping out makers in the <em>MAKERS | Made in 3D<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We look forward to many more years of innovation and collaboration by Eric, with our SOLIDWORKS users within our communities and his sharing his voice and experiences with the Brand in the name of continual improvement over time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/eric20beatty20and20fred20van20batten20and20hubert20masson-scaled.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are Interested in becoming the \u201cnext\u201d Eric Beatty and want to become a SOLIDWORKS User Group Leader or a SOLIDWORKS Champion, check out these links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Learn about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/\">SWUG Network<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Learn about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/community\/solidworks-champions\">SOLIDWORKS Champions program<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Read the anniversary post about <a href=\"https:\/\/go.3ds.com\/ericbeattycoty23\">Eric\u2019s 28+ years using SOLIDWORKS<\/a> in the 3DSwym SOLIDWORKS News &amp; Info community (login required)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer Dassault Syst\u00e8mes had the honor of hosting our SOLIDWORKS 2023 Champion of the Year, Eric Beatty, to our headquarters in V\u00e9lizy, France.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2024\/07\/2023-solidworks-champion-of-the-year-eric-beatty-visits-dassault-systemes-hq.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":658,"featured_media":55488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2933,4059,3,826,14,18,454],"tags":[2773,3538,3584,1378,2345],"class_list":["post-55489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3dexperience","category-3dexperience-lab","category-community","category-dassault-systmes","category-design","category-solidworks","category-user-groups","tag-3dexperience-lab","tag-eric-beatty","tag-solidworks-champions","tag-swugn","tag-user-forums"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55489","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\/658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55495,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55489\/revisions\/55495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}