Wow, I can’t believe it’s day 3. It’s amazing how slowly SolidWorks World comes, compared with how quickly it ends. Now we have to wait almost one more year until SolidWorks World 2010 in Anaheim, California. That’s right, we’re heading back to California. There were a lot of us betting on Las Vegas, especially where we were in San Diego last year. Goes to show you what we know.
As usual, today’s general session was awesome. The guys from Discovery Channel’s Prototype This were here to talk about their show, their designs and how they utilize SolidWorks in their design process. Their jobs are right up there in cool factor with The Myth Busters and Dirty Jobs.
Next up was the Top Ten List, presented by SWUG Presidents, and here they are:
10 – Excel behavior in tables
9 – Abort any running commands by pressing escape
8 – Add lock points for model rebuild
7 – Dual Monitor Support
6 – On the fly equation creation and editing
5 – Faster rebuilds of complex models
4 – Ability to rename configurations while referencing
3 – SolidWorks backward compatibility (big cheer from the audience on this one!)
2 – Clear memory when a file is closed
1 – Increase program stability.
While we may see, hopefully, some of these enhancements in SolidWorks 2010, we’ll have to wait and see. SolidWorks has a pretty good track record of getting the top enhancements into future releases, so we’ll have to keep our fingers crossed.
Richard Doyle then introduced the SWUGN committee. It was time for the SWUGN awards.
User Group of the Year: Central Massachusetts/Northern Connecticut User Group
User Group Leader of the Year: Rob Jensen
Lifetime Achievement Award: Gerald Davis and Dan Bertschi
That was the first half of today’s session. More to come soon, including my interviews with Jeremy Luchini and Kerri Dunne.
