Impressions of AU 2008

Day 1
First of all the flight was late (go figure) didn’t check in until 11:00 pm. Stayed at the Venetian, all I can say about that place was WOW! Got there right at the time when the casinos were going full tilt, had to go to bed.

Day 2
Arrived at the mess hall at 7:00am, figured I would get there an hour before my first class. Do you know what it takes to feed 10,000 people? Had to give the Venetian Credit for that. Attended classes all day. I found a lot of classes very basic, I was hoping for more advanced content.

Day 3
Finally took a class that had advanced content, it was on Creating Custom Water Parts in Part Builder. Part Builder has been one of my nemeses in C3D! Attended the Beer Bust that night had a lot of fun meeting new people and Networking with C3D users.

Day 4
Starting to get the knack of the process here at AU. Today is when I realized that the important thing to attending classes AU is not so much the content, as it is the instructor. Had some really good classes today and more importantly had good instructors. Attended the AU Party this night. They had a comedian/engineer named Don Mc Millan, he was a riot! Great content for the AU crowd.

Day 5
Flew Home to Colorado and 4” of new snow, ouch! - compared to the 68 deg weather where I had been!

In summary: AU was a great experience, especially with all the new found friends that I met while I was there. I would highly recommend to anyone. I could go on and on but just wanted to keep it short and to the point.