Last week Friday morning I attended a SolidWorks 2009 What’s New Event that was hosted by my reseller DASI Solutions. The event was hosted on the Grand Valley State University campus inside of the Eberhard Conference Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

This rollout event was great. It was put together very well and included a lot of information to take home. Jim Byrne did a fantastic job walking through the What’s New in SolidWorks 2009 presentation that was put together and many in attendance seemed very excited about what SolidWorks 2009 had to offer. It is always amazing to me how much additional information you can gather when you watch someone else walk through something. I have seen my fair share of SolidWorks 2009 from beta testing to the pre releases to SP0. I have been to the SolidWorks headquarters to look at SolidWorks 2009 and also attended the SolidWorks 2009 Press Event last month in Barcelona, Spain. However, I still learned new hidden cool features that are included in this release of SolidWorks by watching Jim go through his presentation.

So here is my advice, attend as many of the SolidWorks 2009 rollout events that you can. I will almost guarantee that you will learn something new and cool at each one that you attend. I personally have 2 more events that I plan to attend that will include some sort of a What’s New in SolidWorks 2009 presentation.

If you have any additional questions about what you can expect at these events please contact your local reseller and find out when they are going to be having their next event. Also, pay attention to the SolidWorks User Group in your area as many of these are having some sort of a What’s New presentation at their upcoming meetings.