There are officially four days for SolidWorks World 2009, Sunday through Monday; though, sometimes Sunday is sort of considered a pre-day even though its called “Day 1“.  However, activity begins even before Sunday. I guess Saturday can be called the pre-preday.
Saturday fun
My Saturday was mostly spent flying from San Jose, CA to Orlando, FL, with a layover. I met up with Alex the SolidWorks Geek in our Houston stop.  This is his first, and my second SolidWorks World. We made it to the Swan & Dolphin resort in Orlando just in time to catch the tail-end of a secret meeting. After that, many of us Twitters converged at the lobby bar for some drinks for a tweetup. It was great meeting up with a lot of the bloggers and consummate SolidWorks users from around the country.
Sunday so far
So, Saturday was indeed a very long day. Though I prolly should have a hang-over right now, I don’t (never really get those). My Sunday started bright and early with attendance to some focus groups for SolidWorks sheet metal functionality at 8:30AM and drawings at 10:00AM.  These are sessions where SolidWorks users from various industries meet up with SolidWorks employees in face to face open discussions. The fact that these sessions happen is a sure sign that (despite the appearance otherwise sometimes) SolidWorks does put forth significant effort to improve their software based on customer input. These focus groups are good because users give first hand accounts about how they are using the software, including their likes, like-to-haves, frustrations and such. I may go into specific details about these focus groups later.
It’s lunch time now. I hunger.