About the Reviewers

Deepak Gupta graduated in 2000 from Indo Swiss Training Centre, (Chandigarh, India). With over 12 years of rich experience working with various industries, he has been working in different roles with different product lines. His main area of experience and interest has been the design and manufacturing processes along with team and project management.

He is working as Technical Director at Vishnu Design Services, an Engineering and CAD outsourcing service provider based in Chandigarh, India, offering wide range of CAD design, drafting, and engineering services. Being a certified SolidWorks expert and user for the last 7 years, Deepak is passionate about working with SolidWorks. Besides working for Vishnu Design Services, he enjoys writing for his own blog, Boxer's SolidWorks Blog where he writes tips, tricks, tutorials, and news about SolidWorks. In addition to this, he has participated in various SolidWorks World Conferences as a press member.

An important aspect of his life is his family—his parents, his wife, a 5-month old son, and other family members. He loves to travel and make friends.

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Mark Lyons works for Dassault Systèmes as the Product Manager for DraftSight. He is the principal of The Lyons' Share? resource center for DraftSight. Prior to this position, he has been the Training Specialist for DraftSight since December 2008. Before taking this position, Mark was employed as CAD instructor at two regional high schools in Massachusetts. He began his career as a Mechanical Draftsman creating drawings the old fashioned way, with pencil and paper. He has worked in this industry since 1981, and has used many CAD products.

Neb Radojkovic comes from a technical family. Neb started technical (manual) drafting straight after high school in 1979. Over the years and while using his other skills, such as model making and painting, in 1990, Neb was introduced to AutoCAD. From that point on, Neb used AutoCAD to the best of his ability (self-taught) until he finished a 6-months course in AutoCAD 2D and 3D in 2000. His first job as an AutoCAD Operator was in the Doors and Windows manufacturing firm. Soon enough Neb was in search of more challenge, so he became a sole AutoCAD Draftsperson in a Kitchen Manufacturing business. He became expert in cabinetry, millwork and Interiors Drafting and Design using several software: AutoCAD, SolidWorks, DraftSight, and ARES Commander, to mention a few. Since 2008 Neb has been the owner and principal of Cadesigneb.com—his Interiors AutoCAD Drafting business. Neb is now also exploring CAD and 3D Photo Realistic Rendering. As a form of relaxation, Neb enjoys making Logos and Website Designs.

The main companies that Neb worked at were: