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Mass customization, and more importantly mass personalization, are becoming more sought after in today’s market. We are seeing traditional businesses adapt and new businesses emerge. Discover how Moogue are using the power of 3D technology to help them drive sales of their personalized products.

DriveWorks Pro is a collection of four modules that enable you to create and manage your own Sales Configurator and Design Automation tool. In this short video DriveWorks Vice President, Maria Sarkar, will introduce the four modules of DriveWorks Pro and how they interact with each other.

Seasons Greetings from the DriveWorks Team! We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

As a SOLIDWORKS Gold Partner product, we’re really keen to get involved with the SOLIDWORKS community. In November Gemma, who runs the SWUGN Sponsorship program here at DriveWorks, was invited to present at four user group meetings. Gemma works hard to support SWUG leaders across the globe by arranging presenters and even putting together a box of handy resources and give-away prizes. As she’s so involved with the SWUG network, Gemma was thrilled to be asked to present and arranged her first (but definitely not last!) SWUGN tour. After an eventful and exciting week, Gemma returned to DriveWorks HQ with lots of stories from the events. Hi…

Our Sample Projects are a great way to get started with Design Automation and using DriveWorks to create your first Configurator. You can pick the projects apart to discover how they have been set up or use them as a source of inspiration for your own projects. All of our DriveWorksXpress and DriveWorks Solo Sample Projects have already been set up so all you need to do is download and run them inside SOLIDWORKS. Our Tech Team have also created these handy walk-through videos. They’re a quick and easy way to demonstrate how to set up and run the projects, making it easier than ever for you…

This webinar is the second in our two part DriveWorks Pro “Under the Hood” series. In the first webinar, DriveWorks Co-Founder and Vice President, Maria Sarkar, discussed how DriveWorks Pro can help you differentiate yourself from the competition by adopting a design-to-order, configure-to-order, or engineer-to-order strategy. In this webinar, part 2, Maria shows in more detail how projects are set up in DriveWorks Administrator.

DriveWorks delivers full documentation in minutes rather than days LBH International A/S has implemented DriveWorks to automate the generation of all technical and sales documentation, delivering significant time and cost savings as well as improved quality in its production of steel compensators. PLM Group, a DriveWorks reseller in Scandinavia, recently published this informative DriveWorks case study revealing the results that LBH International A/S have achieved using DriveWorks and we wanted to share it with you. Danish company LBH International A/S has automated the generation of both its technical and sales related documentation by using DriveWorks. All technical drawings, static calculations, production papers and offers…

A SOLIDWORKS World Break Out Session If you’re going to be at SOLIDWORKS World in Dallas next year, don’t miss any of the Design Automation presentations. On Monday, February 1st, Stephen Sagi from DriveWorks customer, Pine Instruments, will be presenting a breakout session with our Technical Applications Specialist, Matt on ‘Design and Quote – Use SOLIDWORKS and DriveWorks to Win Custom Orders’.The break out session is part of the Customer Success & Integrated Solutions category. Engineering drives custom orders.Discover how Pine Instruments use their online 3D configurator, 360Glassware.com, to provide real-time pricing and visualization. The SOLIDWORKS driven configurator allows them to send custom design data to the factory…

November 2015 – The Latest DriveWorks Service Pack, DriveWorks 12 SP2, is now available to download from the DriveWorks Community.

In this two part webinar DriveWorks Co-Founder and Vice President, Maria Sarkar, presents a detailed overview of DriveWorks Pro.

Let’s take a look at the benefits of DriveWorks Solo and how you can get the most out of your 30 day FREE trial. DriveWorks Solo is a powerful Design Automation add in for engineers using SOLIDWORKS. Design engineers across many industries use DriveWorks Solo to reduce repetitive design tasks, automate the generation of new models in SOLIDWORKS or even just to automate part of a SOLIDWORKS assembly. You can try DriveWorks Solo by downloading a Free 30 Day Trial from the DriveWorks Community. Below are some ideas to help you get the most from your 30 Day Free Trial.…

Vallourec is a world leader in premium tubular solutions, primarily serving the energy markets, such as: Oil and Gas and Powergen. Their expertise also extends to various other industry sectors. With over 23,000 employees, sales of 5.7 billion euros in 2014 and integrated manufacturing facilities in more than 20 countries, Vallourec offer their customers innovative, global solutions designed to meet the energy challenges of the 21st century. Vallourec Drilling Products, a division of the Vallourec group, are the second largest drill string manufacturer in the world. They offer a full range of drilling equipment from the rig floor, to the…

A SOLIDWORKS World Break Out Session If you’re going to be at SOLIDWORKS World in Dallas next year, don’t miss any of the Design Automation presentations. On Wednesday, February 3rd, David Mandl will be presenting a breakout session on ‘Integrating DriveWorks with Enterprise PDM’. DriveWorks and SOLIDWORKS PDM are valuable tools that can save companies time by automating key elements of their engineering processes. This session will introduce attendees to some of the ways that the two may be integrated into a single cohesive solution. Attendees will witness how DriveWorks and SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional (formerly SOLIDWORKS Enterprise PDM) can integrate together. Topics include: Join David Mandl’s…

Q & A with DriveWorks CEO, Glen Smith – Part 2 Last week Our CEO Glen hosted a live Q & A session where he answered your DriveWorks related questions. We were so pleased that so many of you were able to join us and submit questions for Glen to answer live on air. We were inundated with fantastic questions but Glen wasn’t able to answer them all in the 30 minute session. So this week, on Thursday 12th November, Glen will be hosting another live Q & A session, where he will answer the remaining questions and also any…

It’s been a busy couple of months for the DriveWorks Team! Not only have we been on the road in the UK and Europe, attending reseller roll out events, but we’ve also been across the pond too! Visiting SOLIDWORKS In addition to visiting resellers and customers in Texas, VP, Maria and CEO, Glen spent a week in Boston USA at the DS SOLIDWORKS Waltham campus meeting with the Product Development and API teams. As always the SOLIDWORKS Partner team, Nick, Heather, Suzanne and Gabe made them feel right at home. Maria was even presented with her very own Partner Programme shirt, which she proudly…