DriveWorks Solo 30 Day Free Trial

Many people are using this time in lockdown to learn and research ways they can work smarter. Embracing digital is key for companies to survive and recover from this pandemic. So whilst you have more time on your hands, download DriveWorks Solo free for 30 days and see what you can achieve with Design Automation.

We’re committed to your success and believe in helping others to help themselves. We’ve created help and training resources so you can get the most from DriveWorks Solo and your 30 Day Free Trial.

Why DriveWorks Solo?

Use DriveWorks Solo to quickly and easily create and configure custom products inside SOLIDWORKS®.

The rules-based design automation eliminates errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes.

Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasks and free up engineers to focus on product innovation and development.

DriveWorks Solo is easy to set up, maintain and use. Deliver custom products faster and with greater accuracy, without using complex macros, design tables or code.

Get a head start by trying DriveWorks Solo free for 30 days.

Get the Most Out of Your 30 Day Free Trial of DriveWorks Solo

Download a 30 Day Free Trial of DriveWorks Solo to see the functionality for yourself and follow our tips below to help you get the most out of your free trial.

Training Tutorial

Download the free Training Manual to learn how to use DriveWorks Solo step by step. There is also a training video for each lesson to make it even easier.

DriveWorks Community

Meet other users, share tips and tricks and find solutions in the DriveWorks Community. Get involved with the forums, watch how-to videos and download the training tutorial.

Videos

Head to the DriveWorks YouTube channel for an in-depth look at DriveWorks Solo with useful how-to videos and sample project walk through videos.

Webinars

Join the DriveWorks Solo Getting Started and DriveWorks Solo Online Training webinars to learn more, ask questions and get up and running quickly.

Sample Projects

Learn about DriveWorks Solo by downloading the sample projects. Pick them apart to discover how each one is constructed and what it can do. Each project comes with a useful walk through video and a PDF with the key facts.

Online Help File

The DriveWorks Help File is packed with valuable information so you can find answers to your questions and learn what’s possible, following best practices and picking up tips and tricks. The search function makes it really easy to find what you’re looking for.

Little Book of Rules

Filled with examples of the rules used to automate designs with DriveWorks and a guide to the syntax you can use. Buy the Little Book of Rules here or tell us what you have achieved with DriveWorks and we’ll send you one for free!

ROI Calculator

Calculate ROI for DriveWorks Solo, based on automating one of your own products. It accounts for the cost of the software, the time it will take to implement and the savings that can be made and how soon you will benefit.

Download and Use DriveWorks Solo Free for 30 Days

Follow the 3 easy steps below to download the DriveWorks Solo 30 Day Free Trial and see the functionality for yourself.

Check out our upcoming Tech Team Thursday Webinars and sign up here:

Business Process Automation with DriveWorks

Thursday 30th July

Reporting & Diagnostic Tools.

Thursday 23rd July

DriveWorks Quick Tips & Shortcuts

Thursday 16th July

Using 3D to Create an Online Configurator

Thursday 9th July

Advanced Workflow & Macros

Thursday 2nd July

Advanced Forms & UI

Thursday 25th June

Advanced Design Automation

Thursday 18th June

Why I’m Glad I Paid Attention in French Classes at School

Maria Sarkar – Co-Founder and Vice President, DriveWorks Ltd.

I took A-Levels in French, English and Maths (a long time ago!). I went to Birmingham University and graduated with a combined degree in French and Modern Greek.

As part of my studies, I spent 10 months of my 3^rd year living and studying in Strasbourg on the French/German border and 1 month at the University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

Although these overseas stays were intended to help me build proficiency in the spoken language what they actually gave me, was a much wider appreciation of communication in general and the nuances of our different cultures. Even though the world is ever more connected digitally, where we live and work, the people we interact with, the environments we frequent, are all quite different! Sometimes in surprising ways, sometimes in very subtle ways.

Being aware of these differences has made me the person that I am today and has also enabled me to achieve success in my career.

When I first graduated, I joined British Rail on their Graduate Training scheme. I learnt about Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR Policies and much more. I didn’t speak a word of French or Greek.

I did, however, have to write quite a lot of reports and the fact that my course at university had involved quite a lot of essay writing and learning about grammar and punctuation, meant that I did well during those 18 months. I was told I was articulate and a good communicator.

My next step was to join the Marketing Consultancy of a leading advertising agency in London. No French or Greek involvement there either but lots of research, reading articles, pulling facts into reports, client meetings and presentations, often to senior managers and influencers. Again, being articulate and able to choose words carefully helped me progress within the company.

Fast forward to my present company, DriveWorks Ltd, a software development company where I am
Co-Founder and Vice President of Sales & Marketing.

I’m not a programmer/software developer but I relate to the code our developers are writing because of my interest and experience with modern languages.

Our company, with 2 Queens Awards under our belt is successful.

Today we have resellers selling and supporting our software across 53 countries. Our Queens Awards are for Innovation and for International Trade and I’m an Export Champion for Northern Powerhouse.

Although the US was our first export market, where we and they both speak “English”, culturally we are different. My experiences of being proficient in other languages, definitely helped me to relate to our new customers and resellers across North America.

Several years after my graduation, someone from France called our office enquiring about our software, he’d come across our website thanks to Google. And I was able to dig deep and find some of my forgotten French vocabulary.

Whilst I was far from proficient, the very fact that I was able to acknowledge him in in his own language, was the start of a sales pipeline that has grown and grown.

We decided to advertise for a native French speaker to join our team and Thomas, a young graduate engineer joined our team. He translated 2 of our training manuals into French and our resellers became more engaged. I learnt how to present the basics of what we do in French and found myself chatting in French more and more. Whilst still not fluent I do listen to a current affairs podcast at least once a month and it’s good to feel connected to our customers.

With success in French-speaking areas – think Canada as well as France – we next decided to tackle the German market. Mark joined us. He had studied International Business with German and again whilst not a fluent speaker, the fact that he was able to meet and greet our German resellers in German showed our commitment to their market and we’ve seen exponential growth over the last 3 years.

We firmly believe that people who have studied languages can do well in Sales, Marketing and Account Management, in fact, all roles where communication is important.

We’ve chosen other people to join our teams who have shown an aptitude for languages.

Sarah our former Development Team Manager had a GCSE in Russian. Bridie, who works in Community & Business Development, studied Italian and Latin at Warwick University and completed a fast track Spanish course before joining us in 2018.

Bridie has now helped us grow our customer base in Portugal, Spain, Italy and South America and has enjoyed visiting and meeting the resellers from those countries.

In addition to face to face communication at industry events and when we visit our resellers, we all end up writing lots and lot of emails. Being able to write succinctly and at the right level for an audience whose first language may not be English, is something that we are very practised at. These are all great transferable skills to have.

So, if you’re wondering whether to bother with your language studies, think again. It could grab someone’s attention and open many doors for you too.

Ready For a New Challenge? Join Us!

We’re always on the lookout for talented people to join our team. Attitude, Aptitude, and Ability are all really important to us.

If you would like to work in a challenging and fun environment, where you’re contributing to the future of our award winning software and team, send us your CV or LinkedIn profile by email.
Be sure to tell us why you’re interested and what you could do as a member of our team.

DriveWorks Underlying Technology

DriveWorks design automation and online 3D configurator software allows you to create tools to streamline your design and business processes.

Over the years, we have added new features and functionality to meet a variety of business and industry needs.

Our software enables you to easily create your own configurators and business tools, specific to your processes and the way you work.

What makes all of this possible is our underlying technology.

Learn more about the underlying technologies that make DriveWorks a world-leading Design Automation and Sales Configurator software solution.

DriveWorks Technology Stack

Explore the core technologies that make up DriveWorks software. Our Tech Stack demos go behind the scenes of our powerful technology.

They are designed to introduce you to the core technologies. They have been created using DriveWorks, they are built on rules and use many other features from our technology capabilities.

Each Tech Stack looks at a particular aspect of our technology to help you understand what you can achieve with DriveWorks.

A lot of the intelligent technology happens behind the scenes, the Tech Stacks highlight things you may not notice in a normal demo and give you a look under the hood.

Explore the Tech Stacks to see what you can do with DriveWorks.

Online Configurator Examples

Our product configurator examples are a great way to see what’s possible with DriveWorks, in a range of scenarios and industries.

Our configurator examples show how versatile and customizable DriveWorks is and provide great inspiration for your DriveWorks projects.

The software is not limited to what you see in our examples, with DriveWorks you build a custom solution that suits your needs and is easy to maintain and update.

We’ve recently added some new product configurator examples and updated some of our existing ones with new features and functionality from our latest release.

DriveWorks Sample Projects

The DriveWorks Sample Projects are complete projects set up to show how design automation can be applied.

Each one is ready to run inside SOLIDWORKS so you can explore how the project has been set up, learn more about rules and get a head start.

The sample projects are a great way to get started with design automation and using DriveWorks to create your first configurator.

Pick the projects apart to discover how they have been set up or use them as a starting point for your own projects.

Our Technical Team has also created handy walk-through videos for each project. They’re a quick and easy way to demonstrate how to set up and run the projects, making it easier than ever for you to get started with DriveWorks.

Watch the video before downloading the projects, and then have a go with using them to configure your own custom products!

Explore Even More DriveWorks Content

Continue your DriveWorks learning using our learning resources and training materials.

Access them from anywhere at any time.

How to Videos

 Learn how to capture parameters in your SOLIDWORKS model, create great-looking forms for entering your design specifications and build rules to generate new variations automatically.

Training Tutorials

Learn how to use DriveWorksXpress by following tutorials. The tutorials show different models so you can learn how to automate your own designs in SOLIDWORKS.

Webinars

Our range of webinars cover Getting Started with DriveWorksXpress and DriveWorks Solo all the way through to taking a closer look at specific aspects of DriveWorks functionality with DriveWorks Pro.

Find Out More About DriveWorks

Get in touch with us to find out more about DriveWorks and take your first steps towards design automation and improving customer experiences.

Read Glen’s Embracing Digital Feature in May/June’s DEVELOP3D Magazine

In this month’s DEVELOP 3D magazine, DriveWorks CEO Glen Smith, talks about how adapting and embracing opportunities is vital.

This is the second in a series of articles by Glen that will be featured every month in the DEVELOP3D magazine.

In the May/June edition of DEVELOP3D, Glen talks about the importance of change and embracing digital.

Glen explains how change is not the enemy, and adapting and embracing opportunities is vital for businesses to succeed. Innovation, using technology and streamlining business processes can and will make a difference post-Covid-19 era.

“As CEO of a software company, I like to think of my team as champions for change. We’ve embraced digital transformation. Almost everything we do is now digital.“

“Time and time again we see how companies that embrace digital can overtake their competitors and change the future for consumers.”

“The key to digital transformation is starting small, choosing one thing to improve, changing it, reaping the benefits and moving onto the next thing.”

DEVELOP3D Magazine is free to read online, read the full article on page 15.