{"id":3101,"date":"2012-01-03T05:11:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T09:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2011-12-31T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T12:44:21","slug":"ontario-solidworks-user-group-meeting-mid-dec-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=3101","title":{"rendered":"Ontario SolidWorks User Group meeting, mid Dec 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some would say that travelling to Ontario in December is foolish.\u00a0 It is wet, snowy and very cold.\u00a0 Well, call me a fool.\u00a0 I visited Toronto to present at the December meeting of the <a title=\"SWUGN page for OSWG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swugn.org\/swugn\/calendar\/ugdetails.htm?id=325\">Ontario SolidWorks User Group<\/a>.\u00a0 It was cold, but not much different from Massachusetts.\u00a0 It was a little rainy, again no difference from where I live.\u00a0 No snow!\u00a0 This time of year should&#8217;ve been nothing but snow everywhere.\u00a0 Then again, Massachusetts also had not snow at that time.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;m not so foolish afterall.<\/p>\n<p>I presented on Advanced SolidWorks Customization Techniques.\u00a0 This is a preview version of what I will be presenting at <a title=\"SolidWorks World 2012 agenda &quot;L&quot; speakers\" href=\"https:\/\/solidworksworld.wingateweb.com\/scheduler\/speakers.do?letter=L&amp;sort=1\">SolidWorks World 2012<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a presentation similar to one given a few years\u00a0before at a <a title=\"SWUGN Technical Summit schedule\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swugn.org\/swugn\/events.htm\">SWUGN Technical Summit<\/a>, now updated for SolidWorks 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Several discoveries were learned on this trip.\u00a0 I discovered the locals believe that Toronto has the &#8220;worst traffic in North America&#8221;.\u00a0 That&#8217;s an arguable yet still valid assessment.\u00a0 Rain, no matter how slight, makes the traffic unbearable.\u00a0 And, even with reduced crowds due to rain, a SolidWorks Employee can draw people from miles (er, kilometers) around to a SolidWorks User Group meeting.\u00a0 Oh, and one more thing.<\/p>\n<p>This is Canadian Slice Pizza: bacon, pepporini,\u00a0\u00a0mushroom, and of course, cheeze.\u00a0 It&#8217;s apparently normal to serve it\u00a0on a corrugated paperboard as a stand-in for a plate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Canadian Slice Pizza\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6526194575_b0190658c9_o.jpg?resize=392%2C293\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s called &#8220;Canadian&#8221; in Canada.\u00a0 Quite tasty, and it is a combination of toppings that I&#8217;m not quite so unfamilar with.\u00a0 Thank you to Chris White for organizing this event and to everyone who attended!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some would say that travelling to Ontario in December is foolish.\u00a0 It is wet, snowy and very cold.\u00a0 Well, call me a fool.\u00a0 I visited Toronto to present at the December meeting of the Ontario SolidWorks User Group.\u00a0 It was cold, but not much different from Massachusetts.\u00a0 It was a little rainy, again no difference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=3101\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ontario SolidWorks User Group meeting, mid Dec 2011&#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":[11,84,1252],"tags":[91,266],"series":[],"class_list":["post-3101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-swugn","category-sww12","tag-swug-meeting","tag-user-group"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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