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A SOLIDWORKS World Hands-On Session If you’re going to be at SOLIDWORKS World in Dallas next year, don’t miss any of the Design Automation presentations. On Tuesday, February 2nd, Ryan Dally, Applications Engineer from DriveWorks Reseller CATI, will be presenting a ‘DriveWorksXpress Essentials Hands-On Lab’. This hands-on training will prepare students to automate their designs using DriveWorksXpress, which is included with every seat of SOLIDWORKS. Topics include: By attending this session, you will be able to apply skills learned to automate designs in your company with DriveWorksXpress. Electronic manuals and training files will be provided as well as live step by step training.

 SOLIDWORKS World Hands-On Session If you’re going to be at SOLIDWORKS World in Dallas next year, don’t miss any of the Design Automation presentations. On Tuesday, February 2nd, Chris Cassettari from the DriveWorks team, will be presenting a hands-on ‘Introduction to DriveWorksXpress’ session. This session will be an introductory tutorial intended to give a hands-on proficiency of DriveWorksXpress. If you have SOLIDWORKS then you already have DriveWorksXpress so why not learn how to use this free, time saving tool to automate modifications to your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies and drawings. Join Chris to learn how to: Don’t forget, you’ll also find the DriveWorks team in the Partner Pavilion. Stop…

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 Tuesday, February 2nd, Danielle Splatt from Crank Out Designs, will be presenting a breakout session on ‘Designing for Design Automation’. Why attend? Design automation can be a cure-all for the aches in your design department. If you are aspiring to roll-out design automation someday, join Danielle’s breakout session to find out how you can start preparing for it now, as you are modeling parts and assemblies in SOLIDWORKS. In this presentation, Danielle will share 8 tips to get you on…

A Visit from a Tanker Designed Using SOLIDWORKS and DriveWorks. Any time we see a product created using SOLIDWORKS and DriveWorks it’s exciting, but when one pulled up outside DriveWorks HQ this morning, we all gathered at the window and couldn’t resist the photo opportunity! The driver of the tanker was very confused when we asked if we could take some photos, he definitely isn’t used to that sort of reception! When we explained that Whale Tankers were our first ever DriveWorks customer over 14 years ago, and they are still using DriveWorks software now, he realised why we were so excited. The driver…

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, Michael Jolley, an Applications Engineer from DriveWorks reseller TriMech, will be presenting a breakout session on ‘DriveWorks Basics of Specification Flow and Macro Buttons’. In the hour long breakout session, starting at 1.30pm, you will: During the session you will learn a lot from Michael’s 14 years+ of experience with SOLIDWORKS and related products. After the session: Join Michael Jolley’s DriveWorks Break Out Session at SWW16 Monday, Feb 1st 1.30pm – 2.30pm

As a SOLIDWORKS Gold Partner product, we’re really keen to get involved with the SOLIDWORKS community. We’ve been working closely with SWUGN leaders across the globe to arrange presenters to speak about DriveWorksXpress at their meetings and even send a goodie box of DriveWorks giveaways! As DriveWorksXpress is fully embedded and included in every licence of SOLIDWORKS, it’s a great tool to present to the SWUGN as each of the members already has access to DriveWorksXpress, so they can start learning and using the tool immediately. San Diego SWUG The San Diego SOLIDWORKS User Group monthly meetings take place on the second Wednesday of each…

Every Thursday the DriveWorks Tech Team share their knowledge and expertise in 30 minute value added webinars exclusively for DriveWorks Reseller AEs and DriveWorks Pro customers on subscription support. On Thursday, November 5th, DriveWorks CEO, Glen will be hosting a Q & A session. Q & A with DriveWorks CEO, Glen Smith If you’re looking for the answer to a specific question about DriveWorks or would like to see a demonstration of how to do something within DriveWorks, this webinar is for you! This session will give you the opportunity to put your questions to DriveWorks CEO, Glen Smith, who…

Take part in the SOLIDWORKS World 2016 t-shirt design contest and you could join us and many other SOLIDWORKS users in Dallas! This year SOLIDWORKS are offering you the chance to win a place at their annual user conference. Not only will you get a free full conference pass for SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2016 but your t-shirt design will be worn by thousands of attendees at the event. All you need to do is create a design for the front of this year’s SOLIDWORKS WORLD 2016 T-shirt that embodies the vibe and atmosphere of the conference. Remember, the conference is in…

It’s no secret that the DriveWorks team are passionate about beer, you only have to look back at photos from our summer party, airport visits and DriveWorks World, to see that beer is quite a common theme! Whilst most of the team are more than happy with a Budweiser, there are two members of our team who take beer way more seriously… Meet two of our developers, Danny and Ben. Since February this year, between them they have tried 394 different craft beers. They have been sharing beer recommendations with each other, as well as reviewing and rating these beers on Untappd, a social network for…

Paul Gimbel, from DriveWorks partner, Razorleaf, is a DriveWorks enthusiast, supplier of office cookies, forum post regular, serial DriveWorks World attendee and CPD leaderboard topper. Our partners have great knowledge of DriveWorks and Paul’s enthusiasm is clear. This means he is able to write extensive, clear, technical content about DriveWorks software and the features within it. His most recent post on the Razorleaf blog is a brilliant example of Paul’s knowledge and experience with DriveWorks. Read the post below from the “Business Process Sherpa” to find out more about Calculation Tables in DriveWorks. DriveWorks 12 Calculation Tables: It’s Like Excel, Only Better A long time ago, in an automation far,…

The Oil and Gas Industry In today’s environment the Oil and Gas industry benefits our lives in several ways. The products in this industry are essential as they provide energy to heat homes, provide fuel to transport people or goods and are often the raw materials used to produce everyday items. The Industry and DriveWorks The extraction of oil and gas can be tricky, and often specialist equipment is needed in order to successfully bring these fuels up to the surface. Different variations of equipment can be needed, products that are typically the ‘Same but Different’. DriveWorks is the perfect software solution…

Pattern Forme Limited are one of the principle Thermoforming Tool Makers in the UK, with an excellent reputation for innovation and reliability. Their products include manufacturing Patterns, Designing and Machining Thermoforming Tooling, Punch and Die Tooling, and CNC High Precision Components using a range of materials, serving the Vacuum and Pressure Thermoforming Industry. We recently caught up with them to discover how they are using DriveWorks Pro and the results that they’ve seen. So how are you using DriveWorks? Our DriveWorks configurators tend to vary with each toolset requirement, but overall we input key data from the product we are trying…

Get to know the team behind DriveWorks. The DriveWorks team has expanded from our single office 14 years ago, now we’ve filled The Barley Store at our Laskey Farm site and taken on more of the surrounding barns and out-buildings! Of course DriveWorks wouldn’t be such a great place without the people that make up our team. In this series of Meet The Team blogs, we’re introducing you to those people that make and shape our team. Next to give their story is Sarah, one of our Senior Developers. Sarah joined us for a placement in her third year of university and she has been…

For the 13th year in a row we’ll be attending SOLIDWORKS World! We hope to see you in Dallas, you’ll find us at booth #817 in the Partner Pavilion. We’ll also be presenting about Design Automation and Sales Configurators, look out for the dates and times of these demonstrations and workshops, announced on our blog and the SOLIDWORKS World website.

Supporting our Resellers at their SOLIDWORKS 2016 events! Join Us! Throughout October, our Value Added Resellers are hosting events to showcase the latest release of SOLIDWORKS. We’re going to be sponsoring, supporting and attending lots of these events and we hope to see you there! Keep an eye on our events page as we’re always adding new events.