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Mark Lyons – Draftsight’s Training Guru

Tweet This interview has been a long time coming. I first reached out to Mark back in September, but I didn’t mark his response and it got buried. I apologized to Mark for my disorganization. He, graciously, accepted my apology. Without further ado, let’s learn about Mr. Mark Lyons. Mark grew up in Marlboro, Massachusetts as one [...]

Mcor Technologies – Printing with paper, not just on it.

Tweet One of the things I enjoy about SolidWorks World is seeing all the technology out there that one can use with SolidWorks, be it hardware or software. Leading up to the show, I was contacted by Julie Reece, the Director of Marketing for Mcor Technologies. Unlike most marketing people who ask me if I’d [...]

Cooking with SolidWorks

Tweet Since I started becoming more involved in the SolidWorks community, I’ve had the opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people. Just a couple of weeks ago, I got to meet another. I’d first heard of Bob Jensen when I sent out an email to our local user group trying to drum up people [...]

Matthew Lorono – A user becomes a designer

Tweet With my crap-tastic memory I can’t remember when I first met Matt, but I do know it was out on the internet. Matt’s been an active member of the SolidWorks community for years contributing in the various fora out there and through his blog, SolidWorks Legion. Matt was a very driven teenager, unlike many [...]

The Man from Down Under

Tweet While he never mentioned anything about Vegemite sandwiches, there’s no doubting Michale Lord’s roots. He was born in Fairfield, New South Whales, Australia, a suburb of Sydney, so one can only assume that said sandwiches are part of his daily caloric intake. I mean it’s either Vegemite or shrimp on the barbie in Australia, [...]

Masshole of the Year – Edson Gebo

Tweet Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present the Masshole of the…huh? Oh, my bad. Allow me to present the 2011 User Group leader of the year, Edson Gebo. While I know he won this award well over a year ago, I couldn’t think of a better way to get ‘Masshole’ into the title. How [...]

Lou Gallo – Podcaster Extraordinaire

Tweet Anyone who has been around SolidWorks for a while has probably heard of Lou Gallo. If you haven’t, you’d better head on over to SolidWorks:HEARD! after you’ve finished reading this. Lou originally hails from the northwest suburbs of Chicago where he grew up playing hockey and risking life and limb doing the things we [...]

The enigmatic Josh Mings

Tweet Oh, God, this is daunting. How does one go about writing about someone like Josh Mings? He writes one of the most popular CAD blogs, SolidSmack.com, he’s half of the incredible Engineer vs. Designer, and he’s a Web Marketing Manager at Luxion. He also has over 3500 followers on Twitter. If I don’t do [...]

Charles Culp – A gift to SolidWorks users everywhere

Tweet I really don’t think that Charles Culp needs and introduction, but I don’t want him to feel that I haven’t done him justice in this post about him so, without further ado… Between his incredible amount of helpful posts on the SolidWorks’ forums, to his presentations at SolidWorks World to his website swtuts.com, Charles [...]

18 Minutes with Bertrand Sicot

Tweet As all of you, my loyal readers, know, I went home to the Boston area back in August. As has become my habit, I arranged a visit to SolidWorks with the hope of interviewing some of the employees, as well as getting a glimpse of 2012. How surprised was I when Kristen informed me [...]

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