{"id":26,"date":"2008-02-14T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-02-15T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T17:40:51","slug":"solidworks-world-2008-day-1-jan-21-a-commanding-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks World 2008 Day 1 (Jan 21) A Commanding Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">One of the stars that kept popping up all over the place at SWW8 was the famous\/infamous Matt Lombard.\u00c2\u00a0 As mentioned, I attended his Hybrid Modeling breakout session.\u00c2\u00a0 Before showing up, I didn&#8217;t know what to expect.\u00c2\u00a0 First of all, his breakout session was in one of the large rooms, that could seat possibly\u00c2\u00a0 500 people.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really know.\u00c2\u00a0 I know it was pretty full in comparison to other sessions this year.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to go into too much detail about the session&#8217;s agenda since I covered that already.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, there are other items of note.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a moment of surreal quality, right in the middle of an audience member asking him a question, Matt recognizes him and declares something along the line, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been looking all over for you! I have it right here.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 He then proceeds to find a copy of his SolidWorks book and brings it down to his faithful attendee.\u00c2\u00a0 At the same time, I see a hand reach out from the front row or so grasping some amount of dollar bills.\u00c2\u00a0 Matt makes the exchange, declaring some self-derogatory statement and continues the presentation.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This photo here is of Matt lording over the model he is about to render subservient to his will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/images\/SWW8\/SWW8-IMG_0025sm.jpg?resize=550%2C413\" hspace=\"2\" alt=\"Lord Lombard commanding his model\" height=\"413\" style=\"width: 394px; height: 265px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two other moments came up where he recognized others in the audience (if I remember right, SolidWorks\u00c2\u00a0perennials of some sort) \u00c2\u00a0and declared his complete amazement that they where there listening to\u00c2\u00a0little ol&#8217; him.\u00c2\u00a0 Just because you write a highly regarded book about SolidWorks doesn&#8217;t preclude you from being in awe of others.<\/p>\n<p>The session was informative and entertaining in the shear unexpected natural phenomenon known as Matt Lombard.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the stars that kept popping up all over the place at SWW8 was the famous\/infamous Matt Lombard.\u00c2\u00a0 As mentioned, I attended his Hybrid Modeling breakout session.\u00c2\u00a0 Before showing up, I didn&#8217;t know what to expect.\u00c2\u00a0 First of all, his breakout session was in one of the large rooms, that could seat possibly\u00c2\u00a0 500 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolidWorks World 2008 Day 1 (Jan 21) A Commanding Presence&#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":[11,40,12,27],"tags":[57,55,35],"series":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-photographs","category-resource-review","category-solidworks-world","tag-breakout-session","tag-matt-lombard","tag-sww8"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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