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I travelled to both Osaka, Japan and Shanghai, China last month to attend\u00a0SOLIDWORKS 2016 Beta rollout events. \u00a0 After the Japan event, was I ready to tackle another week in yet another country? \u00a0Well, yes. \u00a0I was already adjusted to the local timezone in Japan, so the one hour difference between Japan and China didn’t phase me.<\/p>\n
Since I was in town a day early, I was able to meet up with the SOLIDWORKS China team and visit a customer to talk about how we can improve SOLIDWORKS to better meet their needs. \u00a0The Product Definition team conducts over a hundred of these vists each\u00a0year. \u00a0It was great being able to visit one of our valued Chinese customers.<\/p>\n
Each day of the Beta rollout in China was a complete event for its attendees. \u00a0In the morning, SOLIDWORKS China team presented the What’s New and explained the SOLIDWORKS Beta testing. \u00a0For the rest of the day, attendees eagerly tried out SOLIDWORKS 2016 on their own models and designs in our lab.<\/p>\n
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<\/center>Day one of the event focused on customers interested in SOLIDWORKS core, including assemblies, parts and drawings. Understandably, this was the largest group of the event. \u00a0The SOLIDWORKS team visiting from Waltham had a great opportunity to connect with our customers in China. \u00a0We got a lot of great feedback about SOLIDWORKS 2016.<\/p>\nDays two and three of the event focused on customers interested in such topics as SOLIDWORKS Electric and SOLIDWORKS PDM.<\/p>\n
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Each day of the event, SOLIDWORKS China recognized the most prolific bug finders of the day.<\/p>\n
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In the evenings, those of us from out of town explored the iconic areas of Shanghai on foot.<\/p>\n
The Shanghai SOLIDWORKS 2016 Beta rollout event was great. \u00a0Interacting with our customers as they are using SOLIDWORKS 2016 for the first time provided a lot of valuable\u00a0feedback. \u00a0A big thank you to our SOLIDWORKS China team for hosting this event!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"