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April 2020. That’s 28 months ago. April 2020 was the time when I was scheduled to present at the St. Louis SOLIDWORKS User Group<\/a> meeting. Hindsight would now tell most what’s wrong with that date. When Charles Culp<\/a> and I planned the meeting, there was no COVID-19 in the public mind. The devastating fires of Australia were still yet to happen. Charles and I were just planning a routine user group meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Needless to say, that meeting was cancelled, along with a great many other things. 28 months later, we were finally able to have that long awaited user group meeting<\/a>. It appears to have been worth the wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this trip to St. Louis, I was joined by Sara Berndt (UX Design Manager) and Chris Pagliarini (Product Manager).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My presentation covered the topic of xDrawing and the associated Manufacturing Definition Creator Role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform<\/a>. The benefits of xDrawing are numerous, not least of which is the flexibility to create drawings and MBD product definition from the same data set, so work is not duplicated when creating either, and so that data always matches between these different methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tweet from the event: https:\/\/twitter.com\/charlesculp\/status\/1554967421462659072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sara’s presentation covered the topic of user experience and how SOLIDWORKS brand uses well-established methods to learn from our users to create and improve our products and tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We met a lot of awesome people at the meeting and learned quite a bit from our customers on this trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other new from St. Louis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

St. Louis itself is a great place to visit. Our team had a chance to try out local flavors, like toasted ravioli<\/a>, St. Louis style pizza<\/a>, gooey butter cake<\/a> and BBQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instagram links: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cg1pIDxrEee\/<\/a>, https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cg1sQUkLCwX\/<\/a>, https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cg5cKLSLv5n\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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