Summary: <br> On today’s episode, we’re going back into our past stomping grounds as we were new people in business and industry. Reminiscing about Grand Rapids, Michigan which is one of the first places we live for a number of years and decided intentionally to go there for business purposes. There’s a guy named Chris Kaminsky who has started <a href="https://mi3d.co/">Mi3D</a> for Michigan and has a <a href="https://www.meetup.com/mich3d/">Meetup group</a> and association about 3D printing there in West Michigan. This is reminding us of how we were involved in multiple pre <a href="https://www.meetup.com/">MeetUp.com</a> meetups back in the day when we were there and we were young. Tracy remembers sitting in some pizza place or something with Tom while he was trying to do a 3D Studio meetup of some kind. There were some of those early CAD meetups because 3D CAD was really new. There wasn’t too many people who did it. They were very, very expensive systems like Alias on Silicon Graphics workstations that were six-figure systems. Your average people couldn’t afford that, big corporations only. Then there came this lower cost CAD and it started with 3D Studio, which had in the early day’s release 1 and release 2 back then. This was the early to mid-90s. People were really new to it and wanted to know about it and you would get together about all the CAD. We were using CAD and creating models and animations of products that we had designed and that was the real innovative thing.<br> To send us a message, go to <a href="http://www.3dstartpoint.com/">3dstartpoint.com</a> or shoot us a message at info@3dstartpoint.com or on our <a href="http://facebook.com/hazzdesign">facebook </a>or <a href="http://twitter.com/hazzdesign">twitter</a>! Its absolutely free, so ask away and and don’t forget to subscribe so you can hear more on our regularly scheduled Thursday podcast episodes! <br>
