DriveWorks Tech Tips: Downloadable examples of DriveWorks functionality
DriveWorks Tech Tips provide practical, downloadable examples that help you learn specific DriveWorks functionality and apply it to your own projects.
Created by DriveWorks experts, these project snippets answer common implementation questions and show best-practice methods you can get started with straight away.
What are DriveWorks Tech Tips?
DriveWorks Tech Tips are downloadable example projects designed to help DriveWorks users understand and implement specific functionality in their own projects.
Tech Tips provide working examples that show exactly how functionality has been developed. You can explore how a solution has been built, test it, and incorporate elements into your own DriveWorks implementation.
Tech Tips are ideal for DriveWorks users who ask questions such as:
- How do I drive SOLIDWORKS configurations to best fit my implementation?
- How can I customize my form controls?
- How can I create responsive charts?
- How do I work with PDFs inside DriveWorks?
- What are the different table functions inside DriveWorks?
DriveWorks Tech Tips are exclusively for DriveWorks customers with an active subscription, DriveWorks value-added resellers, and authorized DriveWorks Partners. You can learn more about the benefits of a DriveWorks subscription here.
How are DriveWorks Tech Tips put together?
The DriveWorks Technical team monitors and tracks all of the questions we receive via our technical support channels and in our user forums. Our team looks for common themes and creates a Tech Tip to explain the answer in more detail. We then add them to our library so all of our users can access them.
Our own team also makes suggestions for Tech Tips, either when developing new functionality or when using the software ourselves day to day.
Let us know your Tech Tips suggestions
The Tech Tips library is regularly updated, ensuring the content is relevant to the questions that DriveWorks users have. If you have an idea for a Tech Tip you’d like to see, let us know in the DriveWorks forum.
New DriveWorks Tech Tips available to download
The DriveWorks Tech Tips library continues to grow with new examples covering a wide range of functionality, helping users get more value from their DriveWorks implementation.
We recently added four new Tech Tips that focus on new features and functionality in DriveWorks 24.
The new Tech Tips cover:
- Using the new Create Coordinate System generation task
- Using the new Insert Note generation task
- Using the new Override Mass Properties generation task
- Setting up the new permission-based security model in Security Settings
Create Coordinate System generation task
This Generation Task creates a coordinate system feature using numerical values for position and orientation, with respect to the global coordinate system.
Insert Note generation task
This Generation Task inserts a note onto a drawing, adding extra information to generative design assemblies.
Override Mass Properties generation task
This Generation Task assigns values for mass and/or center of mass to override the calculated values.
Permission-based security model
A more scalable solution for granting access to users of an implementation. This model allows more granular permissions to be applied.
Check back regularly for new additions, as we continually add new Tech Tips based on customer feedback, technical support requests, and DriveWorks forum suggestions.
Frequently asked questions about DriveWorks Tech Tips
Who can access DriveWorks Tech Tips?
DriveWorks Tech Tips are available to DriveWorks customers with an active subscription, DriveWorks value-added resellers, and authorized DriveWorks partners.
Can I use DriveWorks Tech Tip examples in my own projects?
Yes. Tech Tips are designed to help you understand how functionality is implemented and can be downloaded and used in your own DriveWorks projects.
Who creates DriveWorks Tech Tips?
Tech Tips are created by DriveWorks technical experts based on common support questions, forum discussions, and real-world implementation scenarios.
Where can I download DriveWorks Tech Tips?
DriveWorks Tech Tips can be found in MyDriveWorks. Learn more about setting up a MyDriveWorks account here.
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