User Group Web Sites

South East Region

Blue Ridge: http://brugs.dezignstuff.com/
Central Virginia: http://cvswug.dezignstuff.com/
Lynchburg, VA: http://www.swugly.org/
Asheville, NC: http://www.wnc-swug.org/swug/news.php
Hickory, NC: http://www.freewebs.com/hswug/index.htm
Columbia, SC: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PSWUG/
Greenville, SC: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/gswug/
North Alabama: http://www.naswug.com/
Lower Alabama: http://laswug.borowskiengineering.com/
North Florida: http://nfug.org/default.aspx

North East Region

Maine: http://www.mswug.com/
New Hampshire: http://www.swug-nh.org/
Northern Vermont: http://www.nvtswug.com/
Adirondacks: http://www.sug-ar.org/
Rochester, NY: http://www.rugsw.org/
Buffalo, NY: http://www.bnswug.org/ 
Woodstock, CT: http://webpages.charter.net/cmnc-swug/welcome.htm

Mid West Region

Chicago, IL: http://www.csug.org/
Central Indiana: http://www.indianasolidworks.org/
Eastern Michigan: http://www.emswug.com
Minnesota: http://www.solidservices.net/mnsug.htm
Southern Minnesota: http://www.smswug.com/
NE Ohio: http://www.geocities.com/neoswug/index.html
Central Ohio: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cosug/
Milwaukee: http://www.smart-wi.com/home.html
NE Wisconsin: http://www.newsug.org/
Madison, WI: http://www.maswug.org/
Western Michigan: http://wmswug.org/index.htm
LaCrosse, WI: http://www.lewausergroup.org/

Southern Region

Houston, TX: http://housug.org/e107/news.php
San Antonio, TX: http://home.earthlink.net/~sasug/
Central Texas: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ctsug/
Colorado: http://www.cosug.com/
Kansas City: http://kcswug.com/

Western Region

San Diego, CA: http://www.triaxialdesign.com/usergroup/
De Anza, CA: http://www.cad-resources.com/C...roups_solidworks.html
Seattle, WA: http://www.vea-design.com/saspug/
Portland, OR: http://www.paswug.com/

International

Finland www.finsw.net


Personal Websites

-Wes Cobb - Leader of Asheville, NC User Group, WNC-SWUG and a Freelance mold designer

- Rob Rodriguez - Photoworks contest  and website

- Matt Lombard - macro library and a Rules of Thumb page

- Daniel Bovinich - runs a SolidWorks email list

- Lenny Kikstra - all sorts of interesting stuff for SW and animation

- Gary Beene – API code snippets page

- Sean Adam's site– sheetmetal guru

- Mike Wilson’s site – cool models and animation

- Ed Eaton's stuff - complex shapes and surfacing tutorials

- Scott Baugh's site - check out Scott's models

- Brian Hill's site - Photoworks rendering

- Paul Salvador's site - check  out his images

- Desktop Engineering - online CAD magazine

- Eng-Tips Forums - many CAD discussion forums

- SolidWorks Developer - must-have site for aspiring programmers

- Unofficial German SolidWorks site - Thanks to Stefan Berlitz

- DynaBits - commercial site with some free programming stuff

- comp.cad.solidworks - the SW newsgroup.  Protective gear recommended.

- Find a SW User Group – User Groups are great sources of information

- SolidSolutions Magazine - Nice magazine with a lot of useful information, including a SW Benchmark!

- Robert Hanson's Site - programming examples and stuff for sale

- NHCad - Joe Jones site with helpful programming stuff

- MechEngineer.com - all sorts of useful things, SW and otherwise

- Download.com - where I get all my (legal) free software.

- SolidWorks Video Card testing - check this out before you buy a computer, or put SW on an old computer.

- SolidWorks Web Ring - Links to several other sites, both commercial and personal.