Tuesday’s General Session opened up with Fielder Hiss taking the stage.  I missed a little of the opening comments, as I had left my camera battery up in my room.  When I returned, there was an awesome Neo Shifters video playing.  Everyone who attended the CSWP Event Monday night got a Neo Shifters set.
TRANSFORMING ROBOT CSWPS
After the video, Jeremy Luchini took the stage and he talked with Yanick Tremblay, Design Manager for Mega Brands.  Yanick quickly walked us through the design process for creating a transforming robot.
Jeremy then talked …

SolidWorks is investigating the future of technology and the CAD interface.  In the Partner Pavilion, they have a Microsoft Surface table set up with a basic 2D sketcher and eDrawings running on it.  I spent a little time this afternoon playing around on it and talking to Kirk Haller, Director of Research at SolidWorks.
Kirk and his team at SolidWorks wrote the code for the sketcher in 3 weeks.  For the eDrawings implementation, they worked with IdentityMine Inc. and stripped out the eDrawings UI, replacing it with a Surface UI.  The …

Monday night is the night of the CSWP event.  All those users who are certified are eligible to attend.  This year’s event was held at Disney’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice at Fantasia Gardens.  The event this year was sponsored by Mega Brands, who provided all the iCoaster sets for the contest of the night.

There were many intriguing designs.  This is the kind of toy that any engineer/geek would love to have on their desk!
There was roast turkey and beef and some buttery mashed potatoes that were the bomb!  A good time was …