Of course, I’ve been taking a few pictures, although perhaps not as many as I would’ve liked. Here are a few of them for you.

This is pretty much where my day started, at the registration table, which turned out to be a mistake, because I was actually supposed to go to the press room for registration, so it took a little while just to sort things out and get my press badge and CSWP flag attached to it.

This is the goodies table, where attendees received some a conference notebook and program, a nifty t-shirt and a handy bag, courtesy of DS SolidWorks.

A few familiar faces and some new ones too.  It actually felt kind of nice when people suddenly stopped next to me and said “Hey, Gabi, nice to meet you!”  There’s something really neat about finally getting to meet in person with those people you’ve been talking to online for a while.

A view of the Swan, where most of the hands-on sessions and round tables were taking place today, as well as the CSWP tests.

A view of the Dolphin, where I’m staying, and where most of the training sessions will take place tomorrow and for the rest of the event.

I got a tiny peek at one of the hands-on sessions that was taking place today at Parrot 1. It looks interesting, but most of this stuff wasn’t announced in the agenda and was by invitation only.

Next are some pictures I took during the reception at the Partners Pavilion. There was so much to see! I took some pictures and stopped by a few of the booths to investigate a bit further, but I reckon I really have to write a whole new post just to tell you about each of the products I saw demoed tonight with more detail.  And I plan to make a few more trips to the Partners Pavilion before the event is over, anyway.

3DConnexion’s booth.  Creators of the SpacePilot that so many people praise, including yours truly.

The ever so cool laser arm which is very similar to a 3D scanner, but with a few advantages.

Verisurf offers something kind of similar, but they don’t do reverse engineering with it; it is used for measurement.

Correction: I guess I was too tired to do my homework properly, but truth is that Verisurf does have a complete set of tools for reverse engineering too, not only for model inspection, as I had mentioned first when I wrote this article. Sorry for the confusion! You can check them out at: www.verisurf.com

This is a really neat 3D printer from 3D Systems capable of printing high quality pieces and even assemblies, fully moveable and with all parts properly placed, in one single print. They showed me the educational model that produces pieces of somewhat lesser quality, but is also more affordable and more than adequate for educational purposes.

This impressive vehicle was engineered using SolidWorks and COSMOS.

More products developed using SolidWorks.

This racer was built by a team of students from the University of Florida using SolidWorks.

This is part of a project for the restoration of the F4U-4 Corsair, which is being reversed engineered, modeled, detailed, and manufactured through the use of SolidWorks.

These guys from Xpresso have a really neat product for voice recognition in SolidWorks. I saw it demoed with mates and it was simply amazing.

This one is one of my favorite ones! An interactive touch screen that allows you to manipulate SolidWorks components with a few gestures of your hands and fingers. This is extremely new, almost experimental, but we had the fortune of playing with it for a bit. I hope to write a bit more about it in the future, as more information becomes available.