{"id":1640,"date":"2012-06-14T10:40:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T17:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Dan-Staple-s-Favorite-SEU12-Story\/ba-p\/334923"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:32:37","slug":"dan-staples-favorite-seu12-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/dan-staples-favorite-seu12-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Staple&#8217;s Favorite #SEU12 Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG class=\"size-medium wp-image-10643 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/06\/Ventrac-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/>Last year I asked Dan Staples about his favorite customer story. (Disclaimer: Dan loves all Solid Edge customers \ud83d\ude42 ). In 2011, his favorite story was our friends at lawn manufacturer, <a title=\"Ventrac\" href=\"http:\/\/ventrac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ventrac<\/A>. I think that might have convinced Dan Swartz to present and bring the massive tractor and attachment as well as present at Solid Edge University. He did tell me this machine came off the assembly line 3 days prior to showing up in Nashville.<BR \/><BR \/>Ventrac was last year&#8230;.so there is a new #1 for Dan.<BR \/><BR \/>This year, Dan&#8217;s favorite story is about Dr. Andrew Thomas from <a title=\"Energist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.energistna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Energist<\/A>, specialists in light treatment systems.<BR \/><BR \/><\/P><DIV style=\"background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;padding: 3px;font: 11px\/1.4em Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0.5em 0pt 0.5em 0.8em;width:300px;\"><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-10648 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/dan-staples-favorite-seu12-story\/andrew-thomas\/\"><IMG class=\"size-medium wp-image-10648 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/06\/Andrew-Thomas-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/A><DIV style=\"text-align:center;\">Dave Ault and Andrew Thomas (R) at 2012 Solid Edge University<\/DIV> <\/DIV><BR \/><BR \/>Andrew presented last year, participated in <a title=\"Solid Edge ST5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/solidedge\/st5\/index.shtml\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Solid Edge ST5<\/A> Beta-Testing and has a awesome accent. The part of Andrew&#8217;s story that really stuck in Dan&#8217;s head is about solving problems with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=02hH_GHBfJw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">the new heat transfer feature in Solid Edge Simulation<\/A>. Here&#8217;s Dan telling his story:<BR \/><BR \/>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MHkmP8_Ymqg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I asked Dan Staples about his favorite customer story. (Disclaimer: Dan loves all Solid Edge customers \ud83d\ude42 ). In 2011, his favorite story was our friends at lawn manufacturer, Ventrac. 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