Month: January 2016

  • 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…

  • SolidWorks World 2009 – A Look Back

    SolidWorks World 2009 – A Look Back

    SolidWorks World 2009 – The one without Jade . . . When you are with a VAR, you often don’t know whether or not you will be able to attend SolidWorks World – It does help your odds significantly if you are selected to present at the conference.  I submitted a presentation for SolidWorks World, but…

  • SolidWorks World 2008 – A Look Back

    SolidWorks World 2008 – A Look Back

    SolidWorks World 2008 was a big one for us at the VAR – most of the Application Engineers (AE) were able to make the trip to San Diego!  These are the people that I corresponded with on a daily basis, but they are hundreds of miles away, and now we would all be in one…

  • A Short “Break” . . .

    A Short “Break” . . .

    I had really hoped to keep churning out the “Look Back at SolidWorks World” posts, but things got a little bit busy in December.  I’ll get into this more later, but we’ll just say that it was probably my busiest month of the year. Here is a teaser shot of how I started the month – And…