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Andy Deighton from SolidWorks visited DriveWorks to present our clever bunch with their SolidWorks Certifications. Andy Deighton is the SolidWorks Technical Director for Northern Europe, he presented 11 of the DriveWorks boys with a grand total of 36 certificates. DriveWorks is so tightly integrated with SolidWorks that staying ahead with SolidWorks functionality and technology is very important to ensure we provide the best DriveWorks support for our Resellers and Customers.

Chris Cassettari, our Pre-sales Engineer, was in America last week providing DriveWorks Training for New York based reseller, CADimensions. Chris spent some time in Syracuse at the CADimensions office, providing DriveWorks training for the Sales and Tech teams there. After the training, Andy DiLaura, Solutions Manager at CADimensions praised Chris on the DriveWorks training he had delivered. “The feedback I received from the group that took the DriveWorks training was extremely positive. Chris did a great job!” We also spoke to Technical Solutions Specialists at CADimensions, Tom DiLaura. He attended the DriveWorks training and felt that the training not only helped him…

Today on the CAPUniversity blog is a video explaining the benefits of DriveWorks. The video features Cassandra from CAPINC, talking to Applications Engineer, Crystal about the benefits of DriveWorks. Crystal has completed the DriveWorks Solo Certification and is very experienced in DriveWorks and design automation as a whole. Watch the video to see what Crystal has to say about the benefits of DriveWorks.

DriveWorks customer, Elite Balustrades and Audi recently featured at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Elite Balustrade Systems are a company based in Blackburn in the UK, not too far away from DriveWorks HQ. They design and manufacture balustrades, hand rails and decking to suit a customer’s exact requirements. Their products are supplied as kits or they offer an installation service. This isn’t the first time Elite Balustrade Systems have used DriveWorks to supply Audi with the glass railings used to protect their exhibition areas. This time, they provided a set of stainless steel framed glazed balustrades. The railings are very adaptable and can be…

Phil Gilbanks, DriveWorks Tech Team manager is coming to Australia! He’ll be there at the end of September and well into October. He’ll be based at InterCAD offices across Australia. Phil will be visiting Resellers, Customers and User Groups in Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne. If you’re based in Australia, look out for an email from us with details of how you can get involved and attend some of his seminars.

There’s just over a week until the CADDedge Concept2Design SolidWorks training event at Foxwoods, Connecticut. Chris and Gemma from the DriveWorks Sales and Marketing team will be there for both days of the event. Pop over to the DriveWorks booth and say hello! If you haven’t registered yet, there’s still time. CADDEdge have provided a handy justification to help you convince your boss!

We’ve blogged a lot lately about the rapid speed in which 3D printing is innovating and how the possibilities seem relatively endless. 3D printing is not only innovating in huge, life-changing ways (like printing a functioning human heart) it is also attempting to solve everyday problems faced by a lot of people. Laura Griffiths, Editorial Assistant at TCT Magazine has recently blogged about OwnPhones and their campaign. They plan to raise $250,000 to start the development process of custom made, 3D printed earphones. The earphones will be tailored to each individual who can scan their own ears using a mobile app. This…

We haven’t blogged about our weekly Show & Tell’s for a while. Two weeks ago we were too busy with the successful bake sale to blog about Chris’ Show & Tell. Last week, we were even busier planning for something very exciting… DriveWorks World 2015! This week though, we are back! Although we’re still very busy here’s an update on the Show & Tells from the past few weeks. So as mentioned before, Chris Cassettari, a name most resellers will recognise, presented his role here at DriveWorks to us all. Chris is our Pre-Sales Engineer, responsible for ensuring DriveWorks resellers are trained and…

DriveWorks Service Pack 11.1.1 is out and available to download.  As ever we have listened to our customers to enhance your user experience and performance.All DriveWorks Customers with an active Subscription Support Contract and all Authorized DriveWorks Resellers can download the latest release now. DriveWorks Pro is available from the DriveWorks Pro User Community and / or the DriveWorks Reseller Community. For DriveWorks Solo log in to your account at www.driveworkssolo.com As with any upgrade, remember to take a back up of your data! If you are working in a multi-user environment make sure you upgrade all the DriveWorks Modules e.g. DriveWorks Administrator, Autopilot,…

Yesterday, this month’s DEVELOP3D landed on my desk. Reading through the magazine as I do every month, I couldn’t help but notice that the Social Media article on page 40 (after our advert on page 13!) described perfectly the benefits and major purposes of DriveWorks. Just read the extracts below and you’ll notice it’s very hard not to make the connection! “Competition is relentlessly increasing and customers are more demanding; they want the latest innovations in their new products now.” “It’s almost as if everyone wants their own unique product to suit their specific needs. And with global internet access, individuals can…

On Monday, we blogged about how 3D printing is innovating rapidly. Since then, there has been even more innovation, proving just how quickly it is moving forward. The Guardian has announced that Oxfam, a charity fighting global poverty, have been trialling 3D printing as a way of improving sanitation, specifically in Lebanon. A 3D printer donated to Oxfam by iMakr has been used to build parts of taps and faucets to provide more handwashing facilities for the people of Lebanon. 3D printing has also been considered as a way to build emergency shelters. This technique would be extremely quick and cost effective as it takes…

If you were at SolidWorks World back in January, you may have seen our very own Glen Smith present. He talked about how design automation and 3D printing are potentially a ‘marriage made in heaven’. If you weren’t at SolidWorks World or didn’t see Glen’s presentation you can watch it on the SolidWorks World Proceedings site. Glen looked at the challenges that 3D printing faces – in particular the parts of the 3D printing process that hadn’t yet been automated.Glen explained that 3D printing is advancing so quickly that it is very hard to keep up, he tried to make some predictions…

It’s a new month so that means lots more DriveWorks webinars. There will be DriveWorks Solo and DriveWorks Xpress Getting Started webinars – hour long sessions that will save you many hours in the future. The webinars are step by step guides for DriveWorks Xpress and DriveWorks Solo, they include everything from capturing models and designing forms to creating rules and running projects. You will pick up tips and tricks from Certified DriveWorks Applications Engineers along the way.

The DriveWorks Charity Bake Sale raised a huge amount for Cancer Research UK!

The Commonwealth Queen’s Baton was actually made using a 3D printer.