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Thank you to everyone who has joined us for DriveWorks Drivers and shared their story of using DriveWorks over the past year. It’s been great to network and learn from all members of our community. On December 9th, we will be holding our one-year anniversary and the final DriveWorks Drivers meeting of the year.

We’ve always valued the importance of investing in new talent and supporting the future of digital. Every year we take on new members across many of our teams and this year was no different. With restrictions lifting in England, we felt now was the perfect time to organise a ‘Get Together’ morning of team building and fun activities for our latest recruits.

Recently, we had a chance to catch up with Sean O’Neill.  Sean joined Dassault Systems as the Senior Strategy and Community Manager. It was a pleasure speaking with Sean, learning about his role at SOLIDWORKS and hearing about his time creating and working on the SOLIDWORKS Champions Program and the SOLIDWORKS Influencer Program. Look out for Part Two where we will be continuing our conversation with Sean about how the pandemic has impacted the SOLIDWORKS Community and 3DEXPERIENCE World.

Warrington has been our home for more than 15 years. Since we moved here, Warrington has continued to thrive and grow. With over half of the DriveWorks team living in and around Warrington, we think it’s a great place to live, work and socialise but it’s not just us who think that, more and more research suggests that Warrington is the place to be.

Last week we launched the first in a new series of DriveWorks technical discussion sessions. These Let’s Chat About sessions will help DriveWorks users to learn more about DriveWorks, improve technical knowledge and get the most from the software. For our first session, we decided to kick things off by chatting about What’s New in our latest release – DriveWorks 19. Here’s a round-up of our first technical discussion session.

Parity Medical have received funding through Made Smarter UK to introduce a virtual showroom to reduce costs and errors and speed up their sales process. At the heart of the solution is DriveWorks software, enabling Parity Medical’s sales teams and customers to design, engineer and configure custom products.

This month marks two years since we received our double Queen’s Awards. The awards are tangible recognition of our team’s hard work and commitment. We’re still just as proud today to be Queen’s Award holders as we were when we first received them two years ago. Let’s take a look back at what’s happened in the past two years.

DriveWorks Drivers is an opportunity for DriveWorks users from around the world to connect, share ideas and talk DriveWorks! It brings together customers, resellers, and partners to share technical knowledge as well as practical experience. On Thursday, September 9th we hosted the fourth DriveWorks Drivers meeting – here’s what happened during the event!

We recently had a chance to sit down and have a catch up with Kirby Downey and Jonny Harrison to talk about The CORE Podcast, Hallway Hangouts …and eating really spicy chicken wings whilst CAD modelling! In Part Two we will be talking about their involvement in the Magic Wheelchair, upcoming SWUG events and the future of SWUG!

In DriveWorks Solo you can create interactive and dynamic Forms easily by linking Form Controls together using Control Properties. By linking Control returns to other properties it is possible to change positions, visibility, values and selections within the DriveWorks Form and Project. This allows you to show different options based on selections and rules to aid guided selling. Find out more in this month’s DriveWorks Solo Tech Tip.

We are excited to launch Let’s Chat About. These brand-new technical discussion sessions will help you learn more about DriveWorks, improve your technical knowledge and get the most from the software. In each session, members of the DriveWorks team will discuss a specific topic, encouraging you to ask questions and share your own knowledge with others in the DriveWorks Community. Learn more and sign up for upcoming sessions.

DriveWorks Drivers aims to connect DriveWorks Users from around the world, invite guest speakers to share experiences and encourage questions and dialogue about the technology. Sharing technical know-how and practical experience informally with each other is something we know many people using DriveWorks like to do. We will be hosting the next meetings on Thursday, 9th September at 3pm and 9pm (BST) so feel free to join us at whichever time suits you best! Here’s what you can expect from the next meeting.

We have been busy catching up with lots of different people from all corners of the SOLIDWORKS Community over the past few months. It’s been great to learn more about the different career paths that have led members of the community to being such a key part of the network. Catch up on any blogs you may have missed.

On Saturday, August 21st at 6pm Paris, France local time, (just after the green flag waved starting the 24-hour Le Mans) this year’s SLUGME started! This was the 6th iteration of the SOLIDWORKS Largest User Group Meeting Ever – but instead of the largest event, this time it was the SOLIDWORKS Longest User Group Meeting Ever.

We had a chance to sit down and have a catch up with Kirby Downey and Jonny Harrison to talk about The CORE Podcast, Hallway Hangouts …and eating really spicy chicken wings whilst CAD modelling! Look out for Part 2 coming soon where we will be chatting about the Magic Wheelchair and the upcoming SWUG events Kirby and Jonny will be hosting.