{"id":844,"date":"2009-06-08T09:15:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T13:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/when-you-think-of-solidworks-who-do-you-think-of"},"modified":"2009-06-08T09:15:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T13:15:33","slug":"when-you-think-of-solidworks-who-do-you-think-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2009\/06\/when-you-think-of-solidworks-who-do-you-think-of.html","title":{"rendered":"When You Think of SolidWorks, Who Do You Think Of?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e201156fd25ea1970c.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thanks-paul\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d83451706569e201156fd25ea1970c \" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e201156fd25ea1970c-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Thanks-paul\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>I remember the guy that introduced me to SolidWorks really well. A manager &#8211; my first engineering manager. I had just started working in the department and he handed me a CD with a getting started book. He said, &quot;take a look at this and see if it&#39;s something we can use.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, I had finished the short manual and showed him what could be done. We bought a few seats and started tearing into SolidWorks. I&#39;ll always remember Paul for the confidence he put in my opinion of that software. That was nearly 13 year ago.<\/p>\n<p>What&#39;s your story? Who introduced you and got you started in SolidWorks<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Josh Mings runs the popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidsmack.com\">SolidSmack blog<\/a>, and lives in Tulsa Oklahoma. Josh&#39;s opinions are his own, and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts or opinions of DS SolidWorks Corp.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the guy that introduced me to SolidWorks really well. A manager &#8211; my first engineering manager. I had just started working in the department and he handed me a CD with a getting started book. He said, &quot;take<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2009\/06\/when-you-think-of-solidworks-who-do-you-think-of.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":3332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","tag-solidworks-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}