Last night, I moved from Rustan’s apartment to the house of Bengt Bjorklund. Bengt is an e-mail friend I had discovered by following the CADKEY WEB Forum. For those of you that do not know this part of the story, CADKEY is a Computer Aided Design program that I write books to teach people how to use. A WEB Forum is a place where people with a particular interest (in this case CADKEY) can exchange notes or questions. I discovered Bengt there one day, and we started exchanging notes. After he discovered that I would be traveling to Sweden, he arranged for me to conduct a seminar on CADKEY at a local company. It turns out that by a strange coincidence, Bengt and Rustan live just a couple of miles from each other in Hanige.

Bengt drove me to Roplan AB, the company that wanted the seminar. Roplan makes seals for high speed hydraulic pumps. Here is an illustration of one of their products that I created from a drawing file that Bengt sent to me on the internet. The day was spent demonstrating the 3D design capabilities of CADKEY. The presentation was well received.

In the evening, Bengt took me for a walk in the woods behind his house. Only a 20 minute ride from downtown Stockholm is found a lovely well preserved forest. And, in the middle of it all we came upon this peaceful lake.