Tick..tick…tick! That is the sound of the countdown timer that I have begun for SolidWorks WORLD 2009 which currently stands at 12 days. With each passing day up here in West Michigan the sunny and warm weather of Orlando, Florida is sounding better and better.

Last year was the first SolidWorks WORLD that I attended. It was in warm San Diego, California and was all in all a great event. As a member of the press last year I had the opportunity to do some 1 on 1 interviews with SolidWorks employees that I could share here with all of you. This made for an very frantic pace to try and maintain throughout the event and I felt that I was not getting a good grip on any one thing because of all of the pre commitments that I had made.

This year is going to pose a new adventure for me at SolidWorks WORLD. I will be giving a presentation this year titled “The Ins & Outs of In Context Modeling” which will be in the 2:45-3:45 time slot on Monday afternoon. I am really looking forward to meeting some great users before, during and after this presentation and if you are interested at all about in context modeling please stop by during this session and see what it is all about.

Unlike last year, I have decided to not doing any 1 on 1 interviews this year. Instead, I have decided to focus on bringing you more complete coverage the general sessions, the technical breakout sessions and some of the great partner products that will be on display during the conference. Hopefully I will even be able to test some of the partner products so that I can give you a complete review here. One of the products you can look forward to reading about here that has already been graciously lined up is a product called HSMWorks which is a CAM package that runs right inside SolidWorks. So stay tuned here for a complete in depth review of this product.

If there is anything in particular you would like to see me cover from this year’s event please drop me a comment right here and I will try my best to get something on here about it.

I am really looking forward to this year’s event. It should be a great time and hopefully I can meet some of you there. If you see me wandering around please stop me and introduce yourself, I leave meeting some of my readers. If you want to find out some more about me please check out my new “About Me” page and see what I am all about.

Also, if there is any way to speed up time please let me know because this event could not come soon enough! Look out Orlando…here we come!