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Though the breakfasts at SWW8 left a lot to be desired, I have to say the food serviced at the lunches was enjoyable.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the things that SWW8 organizers tried to do was set up tables for lunch with particular themes, called Birds of a Feather.\u00c2\u00a0 Basically, each day, the cafeteria was laid out with tables in particular areas being labelled with particular interests.\u00c2\u00a0 One day the tables were labelled based on SolidWorks software related interests.\u00c2\u00a0 Another day, the cafeteria was divided into industry genre.\u00c2\u00a0 The last day was divided into regions of the U.S. and the World.\u00c2\u00a0 Honestly, it didn’t make a dang bit of difference to me.\u00c2\u00a0 Two out of the three days, I sat pretty randomly anyway.\u00c2\u00a0 The one day I did sit where I was supposed didn’t turn out all that interesting to me (no offense to the people at the table with me).<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0On my first day of SWW8, my breakout sessions where actually not directly SolidWorks related.\u00c2\u00a0 The first breakout session I attended covered Advanced Project Management Concepts<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 I choose this session originally because other available sessions at the same\u00c2\u00a0slot were either topics I already know well enough, or were not related to me at all.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t expect much from this particular session.\u00c2\u00a0 I was surprised.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m glad I was in attendance.\u00c2\u00a0 The session was kinda an eye opener covering topics in project management including criticisms of\u00c2\u00a0and improvement upon\u00c2\u00a0the critical path method, the root causes for scheduling issues, bad behavior that I have always thought was good behavior (multi-tasking), Parkinson’s Law (work expands to fill the time available for its completion), 3 Minute Egg Rule (sarcastically: it’s not quality if its finish before time is up), and the CYA factor.\u00c2\u00a0 The session then addressed the true nature of projects and discussed methods to use in order to plan projects more effectively.\u00c2\u00a0 Out of all my breakout sessions, this is the one where I took the most notes (and that wasn’t because it was the first one I attended).<\/p>\n

I then attended the breakout session labelled Clarifying Software Tools and Regulatory Compliance<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 I work in a heavily regulated industry, and have been grappling with the question of how to treat SolidWorks within that environment.\u00c2\u00a0 Is SolidWorks and related applications subject to validation requirements.\u00c2\u00a0 The answer I found here was no!\u00c2\u00a0 SolidWorks and its\u00c2\u00a0related applications are authoring tools.\u00c2\u00a0 Drawings can be document of record in the Device History File, but they can be so in the form of formats like PDF or TIFF.\u00c2\u00a0 My company already treats the PDFs of drawings as the controlled document, so this fits well within our processes without the risk of having cumbersome activities limit the use\u00c2\u00a0of SolidWorks in some artificial way.<\/p>\n

Hybrid Modeling Solids and Surfaces<\/strong> was the next breakout session I attended on Monday.\u00c2\u00a0 This session was conducted by Matt Lombard<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 This session revolved around the idea of using good practices to create models that employed both surfacing and solid modelling.\u00c2\u00a0 He discussed the sequential method where one starts out creating a part as\u00c2\u00a0surface model and then becomes a solid model.\u00c2\u00a0 This is accomplished by grouping all of the surface features at the start of the Feature Manager, and grouping the solid features at the bottom.\u00c2\u00a0 This method produces a well organized tree, but may be difficult to maintain if certain features which blur the boundaries of surface and solid modelling are used.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The alternative is simultaneous hybrid modelling, that has a combined use of solids and surfaces throughout the Feature Manager tree.\u00c2\u00a0 He also went into details about many of the surface and solid modelling tools.\u00c2\u00a0 Seeing many of the SolidWorks tools demonstrated was enough to make this time well spent.\u00c2\u00a0 I briefly met Matt at the end.\u00c2\u00a0 We previously have had\u00c2\u00a0some correspondences regarding a particular topic du jour: HM<\/a>, CF<\/a>, RC1<\/a>, RC2<\/a>, & RC3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I went to my final session of the day on a whim.\u00c2\u00a0 I had intended on going to a session that covered the topic of PDMWorks and API or something.\u00c2\u00a0 However, it was across the building, and this session was just down the hall.\u00c2\u00a0 Welcome to the 9th Annual SolidWorks User Group Network Summit Meeting<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 The attendees of these meeting turns out to be a who’s who in the SolidWorks universe.\u00c2\u00a0 Many of us Blog Squad members where there, but the focus of the group was the SWUGN and its leadership.\u00c2\u00a0 I was first introduced to this level of activity by a personal invite from Richard Doyle<\/a> to attend a SWUGN Regional Technical Summit in 2007<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Before that, I had been to a couple of SWUG meetings over the years and that’s about it.\u00c2\u00a0 The one thing that strikes me as quirky and yet endearing is\u00c2\u00a0Richard Doyle’s pronunciation of the letters S-W-U-G-N and how they\u00c2\u00a0just roll off his tongue.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not swu-jen, or swoo-jen, or swu-gun, or even swug-in.\u00c2\u00a0 He pronounces the g<\/em> as in begin<\/em>, not\u00c2\u00a0as a\u00c2\u00a0j<\/em> like in giant<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 He\u00c2\u00a0easily utters swu-gin in a way that may take other English speakers years to master.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0The session was very informative as to the progress and goals for the SWUGN in 2007 and throughout 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 As the day come to a close, I headed off to recoop in preparation for the long day to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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