The wind was heavy that day my friends, as I remember it, the date was April 12^th, 2012.   It seemed like just another day until over 100 customers and prospects attended Symmetry Solutions: Hook, Line, and SolidWorks Spring Conference event.

Many were baited to come see the likes of Dave Genz, Ice Fishing enthusiast, and Walleye Dan, professional fishing guide.   There weren’t many bobbers in the audience during Mark Pallansch’s discussion of Clam Corporations manual documentation process, as he shared how they utilized 3DVIA Composer to provide parametric-based set up and tear down animations of Ice Houses.  Dave Schluter from St. Croix Rods had his hooks into the audience during his discussion on their implementation of Enterprise Product Data Management.   St. Croix Rods was able to string up their workflows and provide a much more efficient product release process.

The biggest catch of the day was during the technical breakout sessions, as the new SolidWorks Plastics Product offering reeled in the largest audience of the technical breakout.   Other technical varieties included Application Programming Interface (program customization), Simulation (FEA, CFD analysis), Enterprise Product Data Management, and 3DVIA Composer for technical communications.

To close out the day, two lucky winners, Jesse Hahn from SportTech and Mark Bossart from Apnex Medical, bagged themselves a big fishing tale by each taking home a brand new ice fishing house from Clam Corporations. Congratulations!

Well, it’s hard to believe that SolidWorks 2010 is already available.  It seems like it was only yesterday that we were at our 2009 Rollout events.  I would like to thank all of you that had the opportunity to attend our 2010 SolidWorks Rollout on October 8^th at the Embassy Suites in Brooklyn Center, MN.  For those companies attending Symmetry’s Rollout event for the first time, I hope you found it beneficial. I’m sure you’re looking forward to getting your hands on the new release of SolidWorks 2010.  For those companies that have been on SolidWorks for a number of years, we appreciate your continued involvement in the Rollout, along with other events that we offer our customers.  It’s a fantastic opportunity to network with various companies to see how everyone utilizes not only SolidWorks, but some of the other SolidWorks products, including Enterprise PDM, Simulation and 3DVIA composer. (BTW, check out our website www.symsolutions.com for some fantastic fourth quarter promotions that were just announced).

We also received fantastic feedback from DS SolidWorks Corp. They informed us that Symmetry had the largest attendance out of all of the Rollout events in the upper midwest. 

Thanks again for attending and we hope to see you at SolidWorks World in Anaheim, CA on January 31 – February 3, 2010.