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Get the latest news, tips, events and software updates from the DriveWorks team.
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New – DriveWorks Solo Sample Project – Metal Toolbox
Read about our new DriveWorks Solo Sample project and see how DriveWorks Solo can help create beautiful easily customisable products with ease.
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Mass Customisation – The future of product design and manufacturing?
Mass customisation – where customers can modify a products appearance, features or content to their specification – has been the “next big thing” for a very long time. Even as far back as the 1970’s futurist Alan Toffler predicted the emergence of Mass customisation. Yet it has taken until very recently for the tools to enable such a revolutionary new production technique to become available on a mass scale. Now everyone from Nike to Motorola are using the technique to provide a unique product that is customised and created by their customer. Customisation is no longer the “next big thing”…
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Design and Configure a Metal Toolbox.
Check out this latest DriveWorks Solo sample project. Use it to design and configure your own Custom Toolbox. DriveWorks can be used to automate many aspects of the design process and it can be used across many different industries too. To help you learn more, we have published several “completed” DriveWorks Solo Sample projects on our website. These are all FREE of charge. Once downloaded you can open them up and use them as a starting point for your own projects or just as a way to see what’s possible. Make sure you have the lastest version of DriveWorks Solo – download…
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3D Printing and Design Automation, a match Made in Heaven?
Can design automation change the face of 3D printing ?
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SolidWorks 2015 to drop support for 32-Bit – Does it matter to you?
Some of you may have seen that SolidWorks 2014 will be the last release to support 32-Bit operating systems. So, what does that mean and will it have any implications for you? I am sure that most of you are aware of the differences between 32 and 64-Bit operating systems and many of you will already be benefiting from the advantages of a 64-Bit system. If all of this has slipped by you though, it’s probably best we have a quick recap on what the differences actually are. What this will all this mean for your SolidWorks performance? Running SolidWorks…
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Innovative use of DriveWorks
Here at DriveWorks we don’t just sell our products but we are actively involved in the ongoing process of automating our company systems using DriveWorks Pro and its wonderfully flexible form designer.
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DriveWorks elevates Matot’s design process
Matot, a small Chicagan manufacturer of dumbwaiters founded in 1888 has recently moved its design and manufactuing process in to the 21st century using SolidWorks and DriveWorks to automate much of this process.
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DriveWorks Opens Doors for JELD-WEN
Previously the production of custom drawings was a slow and time consuming process explains Dennis Rene Jacob Hvam, internal CAD and PDM consultant at JELD-WEN: “It could last up to three days to make the drawing ready for the customer. Now the salesperson receives the drawing in just 5 to 10 minutes and can forward it to the client for final review and approval” DriveWorks now covers 75-80% of customer orders for special cut-outs in doors and complete glass panels, with some 25,000 drawings providing the basis for fast configuration of new products and the generation of additional drawings that…
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DriveWorks Opens Doors for JELD-WEN Door Solutions
DriveWorks is used worldwide in a diverse variety of industries, helping businesses automate design and accelerate their sales process. JELD-WEN, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of doors and windows has been using DriveWorks for three years now.
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DriveWorksXpress. Not Just for complete products.
DriveWorks is a great tool for automating same but different design and we are proud of our industry leading software, but DriveWorks isn’t just for complete product design.
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DriveWorks – Latest Release – News
DriveWorks 10 SP1 – Available to Download
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Innovative use of DriveWorks Technology
Find out how we are using DriveWorks to automate our internal processes.
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How to Troubleshoot Licensing Webinar – 27th June
Do you have questions about licensing? Attend this webinar to understand how DriveWorks licensing works.
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Configuring Customisable Furniture online in 3D using DriveWorks
A great example of a DriveWorks customer using DriveWorks Pro to automate and integrate the engineering and sales process.
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Configuring DriveWorks Pro Server – 20th June
The next topic in the DriveWorks Webinar Marathon will look at Configuring DriveWorks Pro Server – the DriveWorks Tool for Multi-User Environments and will take place on Thursday 20th June at 4pm (BST).