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 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…

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…

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! After attending SolidWorks World 2006 in Las Vegas, I knew that I wanted to do it all again the next year. There was a lot going on in my life leading up to SolidWorks World 2007 . . . I revived the local User Group, renamed it “SolidWorks User Group of Nebraska”…

They often say that there is nothing like the first time. When it comes to SolidWorks World this was definitely true . . .   Flashback to 2002-2003 I was working for a company that had just purchased SolidWorks.  Having already used several other programs, this was a truly refreshing change, and I never looked…

We are now about 70 days away from SolidWorks World 2016 in Dallas, TX. I thought that this would be a good time to recap some of my favorite experiences from SolidWorks World. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll post updates looking back on past conferences. If all goes well, I should be able…

I jumped on to the blog the other day, and noticed that I have not made an update since January of 2013!  This was more than a little bit disheartening, as my plan was to make regular updates.  It is time to try to make that change. So, what’s been keeping me so busy for…