• Helping The Next Generation of Engineers

    Helping The Next Generation of Engineers

    Are you living the SWUGLife? Did you SLUGME? Will you be at SWW19? Do you want to help EKGAR? What do all of these acronyms mean?!?   SWUG is “SOLIDWORKS User Group” – If you are truly living the “SWUGLife,” you probably spend a good portion of your time with the SOLIDWORKS Community. SWUGLife was…

  • SOLIDWORKS World 2018 – SWUGN Awards

    SOLIDWORKS World 2018 – SWUGN Awards

    This was a very big year for me at SOLIDWORKS World . . . I achieved one of my biggest long term goals! Every year during the General Session, Richard Doyle talks about the SOLIDWORKS User Group Network (SWUGN), and he finishes by presenting the SWUGN Awards. There is an award for User Group Leader…

  • SOLIDWORKS World 2018 – A Look Back

    SOLIDWORKS World 2018 – A Look Back

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  • SOLIDWORKS World 2017 – A Look Back

    SOLIDWORKS World 2017 – A Look Back

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  • SOLIDWORKS World 2016 – A Look Back

    SOLIDWORKS World 2016 – A Look Back

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  • SolidWorks World 2015 – A Look Back

    SolidWorks World 2015 – A Look Back

    Oh yeah!  SolidWorks World in Phoenix, Arizona! So many things to look forward to . . . First and foremost, the warm Phoenix weather (Nebraska is not exactly “balmy” in February), my brother and his wife live in Chandler, so we would get to hang out with them one of the nights, and they announced…

  • SolidWorks World 2014 – A Look Back

    SolidWorks World 2014 – A Look Back

    We were really excited about SolidWorks World being in San Diego again – it would be our THIRD time visiting this beautiful city.  Not only was I looking forward to seeing the other User Group Leaders again, I was anxious to meet up with the “Bacon Brotherhood” . . . John Matrishon and Ed Gebo started a fun group with a…

  • SolidWorks World 2013 – A Look Back

    SolidWorks World 2013 – A Look Back

    After getting home from SolidWorks World 2012, I really wanted to dig into the new Costing tool within SolidWorks.  I dove in headfirst, and the more that I worked with it, the more I realized that this tool had a lot of potential.  I became so enamored with Costing that I decided to submit a…

  • SolidWorks World 2012 – A Look Back

    SolidWorks World 2012 – A Look Back

    To say that a lot happened between SolidWorks World 2011 in San Antonio and SolidWorks World 2012 in San Diego is a bit of an understatement. I was setting up the blog right before SWW11, and I started blogging about the conference shortly after returning home.  I was going through some of these old blog posts recently,…

  • SolidWorks World 2011 – A Look Back

    SolidWorks World 2011 – A Look Back

    Don’t be alarmed, you didn’t miss anything . . . I said that a lot happened in between SWW09 and SWW11, and I wasn’t kidding. To keep it brief . . . I was still with the VAR during SolidWorks World 2010 in Anaheim, and I was incredibly busy – so busy that I was…