SolidWorks World 2004

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Paul,
I'm suprised to hear you refer to the roundtables as having little value.
Surely you've attended them in the past. If not, you should know that these
discussions are very focused on what real-world users have to say about
current functionality and improvements we would like to see made. The
SolidWorks folks who lead the discussions listen to each and every
roundtable attendee, and it gives them a chance to elicit more than a simple
"drawings suck" comment. I have seen many occasions where product managers
will admit to shortcomings in certain aspects of the software, and I know
they are genuinely interested in improvements. I also believe the
roundtables have been the source of many improvements to SolidWorks
software. It's not market research, they want to know what we think is
wrong.

Richard