I can’t remember exactly who said it first (not me), but it reflects the general feel of the conference.  I wrote my user group data management presentation on the flight out, and I guess I will simply be rewriting it on the flight back.   Maybe next year I’ll learn.

In the morning I saw some excellent content on 3D instant website.  No, it’s not new, and No, I’ve never used it either.  You can create password protected, highly interactive websites.  Phillip Thomas also did a really cool trick with a model on his iPhone.  He lost me a bit on the details, but I’ll be stalking him later to ask.  (Don’t worry Phillip, I’m harmless.)

The afternoon was the CAD manager’s boot camp, better named “Every SolidWorks User on the Planet should attend if you want to get the Most Return on your Investment”.  I guess that title was too long, but it was still quite well attended.  I was a bit worried when Greg Jankowski started talking about processors, memory, and hard drives, because I have always viewed hardware as a necessary evil. 

Here are a few of the great tips I picked up:

·         Excluding SolidWorks files from the virus scan process can help your performance. 

·         Windows 7 – 64 bit is really that much better than Vista 32 bit.     

·         I felt admonished for bad computer maintenance.