SolidWorks Express | September 2006

The Product Showcase is a great place to spotlight your products.

You can count the number of months on one hand. The next SolidWorks World International User Conference and Exposition is less than five months away. Mark your calendars and start making plans to join product design experts and visionaries at the world’s largest annual MCAD event in New Orleans, February 4-7, 2007.

You won’t want to miss it. Next year, the event is going to be bigger and better than ever with more than 4,000 attendees.

Whether you’re a SolidWorks® user or someone considering making a switch, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to learn, meet members of the community, and advance your career. Design with Vision is the theme for next years’ event with a spotlight on tomorrow’s engineering design.

Here’s a few more details on why to go:

Learn more about everything SolidWorks
SolidWorks World is a forum for learning new skills and trading ideas with industry experts, community members, and SolidWorks employees. You’ll find plenty to keep your mind busy.

For example, choose from over 100 Breakout Sessions to enhance SolidWorks skills and learn about the industry. Many of the sessions are presented by users who want to highlight a SolidWorks technique or their latest product. (If you’re interested in presenting a topic, you still have time to submit a paper.) What you learn in a session can increase your productivity.

More than 100 SolidWorks solution partners are on hand in the Partner Pavilion to demonstrate the latest technology in 3D CAD hardware and software solutions.

“I’ve been attending every SolidWorks World since 1999," says Ed Eaton at the DiMonte Group in Aurora, IL. “I go mainly for the incredible wealth of content in the Breakout Sessions. A single tip in a session can pay for my trip in the time it saves later on the job.”

Attend the morning’s General Session to get pumped up by keynote speakers. Get a sneak peak at what’s ahead in the next major release of SolidWorks, and stroll through the exhibit hall to learn about the latest technology presented by over 100 SolidWorks partners.

Show off innovations
If you have a product designed in SolidWorks that you want to tell the world about, why not feature it in the SolidWorks World Product Showcase? It’s a great way to promote and expose your innovations to 4,000 attendees and over 100 members of the press. In SolidWorks World 2007, the Product Showcase is expanded to include a 8,000-square-foot (745 square-meter) section of the exhibit hall.

Become a certified SolidWorks user
SolidWorks World is a special place for certified SolidWorks users. If you want to become one, sign up at the conference to take the Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP) exam and get a $100 discount off the regular exam price. SolidWorks certified program manager Jeremy Luchini administers the exam on the Sunday before the conference hall opens. (Another reason to arrive in New Orleans early!) Grades are posted the following day. If you pass, you can join Luchini at a special CSWP outing in New Orleans.

“Last year in Vegas, I took 300 CSWPs out to the ESPN Zone for drinks and giveaways on Monday night. The group included 40 people who passed the exam the day before,” Luchini says.

Mingle and enjoy the gumbo
Surrounded by so many people and so much energy, you can only have a good time at SolidWorks World. It’s a place for people and ideas to connect. People who go, want to come back.

Everyone who goes to a SolidWorks World event has a good time. It wouldn’t be SolidWorks World without the people.

“I went with a coworker for the first time last year,” says Lucas Creasy, project engineer at Knapheide Company in Quincy, IL. “We attended several sheet metal Breakout Sessions and met Avelino Rochino, the SolidWorks product manager for sheet metal. We are definitely going to New Orleans next year.”

Ed Eaton advises: “If you’re a engineering manager, it makes sense to send your employees to these events. But you have to send the right ones—those interested in learning and sharing what they’ve learned back at the workplace.”

Learn more about the upcoming SolidWorks 2007 conference by checking the official SolidWorks World webpage. You can also click here to read about the promising developments in New Orleans since Katrina.

Increased productivity is just one of many reasons to attend SolidWorks World. Reivew the Boss' Justification page for more reasons.

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