{"id":2254,"date":"2011-01-29T14:08:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T22:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2011-02-26T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:03:12","slug":"solidworks-world-2011-in-quick-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=2254","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks World 2011 in quick review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/montage1sm.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2255 aligncenter\" title=\"SolidWorks World 2011\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/montage1sm.jpg?resize=450%2C379\" alt=\"SolidWorks World 2011\" width=\"450\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/montage1sm.jpg?w=450 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/montage1sm.jpg?resize=300%2C252 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SolidWorks World 2011 offered attendees a unique experience.\u00a0 The Apollo 13 sub-theme to the General Sessions was a treat.\u00a0 The Monday General Session included a recounting of the Apollo 13 mission from an engineering perspective.\u00a0 Kevin Bacon&#8217;s appearance during the Wedsnesday General Session was an added bonus, as he talked about the vomit comet used in the making of the Apollo 13 movie (among other things).\u00a0 The cool customer profiles on Tuesday added a degree of depth as well.\u00a0 Although there was a thorough What&#8217;s New in SolidWorks 2012 presentation, it does not seem (at this point) that new features will be added to the next version.\u00a0 Instead, SolidWorks is getting some long requested user interface and performance improvements.<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of full disclosure, for my attendance to SolidWorks World 2011, I was provided a Press Pass.\u00a0 Though the Press Pass as no direct monetary value, it does include access that is equivilent to the Full Conference Pass.\u00a0 Through various events, I received some additional value, usually in the form of meals.\u00a0 SolidWorks Corp did not cover or reimburse me for additional costs, such as travel expenses, but did pay for my hotel stay.\u00a0 I am under no obligation to write any material, nor present a particular point of view.\u00a0 The content of my articles is solely my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolidWorks World 2011 offered attendees a unique experience.\u00a0 The Apollo 13 sub-theme to the General Sessions was a treat.\u00a0 The Monday General Session included a recounting of the Apollo 13 mission from an engineering perspective.\u00a0 Kevin Bacon&#8217;s appearance during the Wedsnesday General Session was an added bonus, as he talked about the vomit comet used &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=2254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolidWorks World 2011 in quick review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,1065],"tags":[71],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solidworks-world","category-sww11","tag-general-session"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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