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Get the latest news, tips, events and software updates from the DriveWorks team.
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DriveWorks 11 – What’s New
For anyone that missed DriveWorks World – we have picked some of the top features presented in our What’s New Session and this is now YOUR chance to see some of the great new features added for DriveWorks 11! When: – Thursday 13th March at 4pm GMT This webinar is for anyone using DriveWorks with an active subscription support contract and all DriveWorks Resellers. You can register for the webinar in the DriveWorks Communities DriveWorks Pro User Community DriveWorks Reseller Community
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Develop3D Live 2014 – 15h April – Registration Open!
DriveWorks is proud to announce that we will once again be Silver Partners at this year’s Develop3d Live. DriveWorks will be at the event at Stand 34 showing off the very latest version of our ‘Configure & Automate’ Software, DriveWorks 11. Delevlop3D is the leading magazine for the 3D industry, tracking the development of essential technologies from product development through to fabrication. Introduced in 2012, Develop3D Live hosted at Warwick University, in the UK has been an outstanding success with industry experts from around the world sharing their experience along with the fantastic Develop3D editorial staff. If you couldn’t make it to…
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Join us at Develop3D Live
DEVELOP3D LIVE is the UK’s leading conference and exhibition celebrating design, engineering and manufacturing technology and how it brings world-leading products to market faster.
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DriveWorks Solo – What can I do in 30 days?
DriveWorks Solo is a powerful Design Automation Add In for engineers using SolidWorks. It is used by design engineers across many industries to reduce repetitive design tasks and automate the generation of new models in SolidWorks. DriveWorks can also help companies respond quickly to sales enquiries. DriveWorks Solo can be downloaded and used for 30 days to automate a SolidWorks Model or even just part of your SolidWorks Project. If you are new to DriveWorks then you might be wondering, how do I use DriveWorks Solo? And importantly, just what should I do with my 30 days? Follow the DriveWorks Training…
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DriveWorks Solo Head Start Webinar – February 19th
The DriveWorks Solo Head Start Webinar, takes place the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month. Are your designs the Same but Different? This Webinar takes you through the quick and easy steps involved in automating your design process with DriveWorks Solo. The Webinar Covers There are two sessions of the Webinar, to try and cover as many time zones as possible. Choose one of the sessions below and click on the link on the Registration Page to ‘view in your own time zone.’ Use this Webinar to learn how to automate your designs and like many of our customers you can learn…
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DriveWorks World 2014 – March 3rd – March 7th
Join us for DriveWorks World 2014
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DriveWorks Solo Sample Project Preview – Furniture project
DriveWorks Solo sample projects are a great way to learn how DriveWorks Solo can be used in your business, giving you a complete project to experiment with. If your business makes custom furniture then our newest set of DriveWorks Solo projects might be of some use to you. This DriveWorks project shows off DriveWorks Solo’s ability to drive advanced SolidWorks parts and features such as textures, materials and colours. This allows the project to drive entirely new variations of a cupboard with a simple drop down box. This project also shows off some of the advanced form design features such…
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DriveWorks – Top 4 Reasons for Implementing a Sales Configurator
See the top 4 reasons for implementing DriveWorks Pro in your company.
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SolidWorks Secret tip – Save time with DriveWorksXpress
If you design and sell products which are slightly different for each order then you could be saving a huge amount of time with this simple tool built in to SolidWorks. DriveWorksXpress is a free design automation tool found free in every seat of SolidWorks and should form a part of any SolidWorkers armoury. With SolidWorks at your fingertips it’s possible to automate drawings, parts and assemblies with just a few simple steps. The first thing to do is to open up your version of SolidWorks 2011 or newer and open the SolidWorks Tool bar and open DriveWorksXpress. Once DriveWorksXpress…
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New DriveWorks Solo Sample Project – Machine Guard
DriveWorks Solo brings some advanced functionality to your design automation that can’t be found in DriveWorksXpress. A great way to sample this advanced functionality is through our DriveWorks Solo 30 Day trial. Our 30 Day trial not only gives you access to our advanced design automation software but also to our resources such as tutorials and sample projects. We recently updated our sample projects allowing us to show off our software and giving you the opportunity to discover all the extra DriveWorks functionality found in Solo. An important added function found in DriveWorks Solo is the ability to drive the…
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New DriveWorks Solo Sample Project – Fan Project
By using downloading and trying out our new DriveWorks Solo projects, you can learn how DriveWork Solo can help you create variations for your SolidWorks models. DrivreWorks Solo comes with a whole raft of new features that aren’t available in DriveWorksXpress including the ability to create drawings and export those drawings in different file formats. This means that you can send off specifications and information to your customers who won’t have SolidWorks or eDrawings installed. DriveWorks Solo also allows you to import data from excel or create data tables within the DriveWorks Solo project. This allows for pricing lists and…
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New DriveWorks Solo Sample Project – Hydraulic Cylinders
Got your free 30 Day DriveWorks Solo trial? Then why not give one of our brand new DriveWorks Solo Sample projects a try. These completed projects give you the chance to use a completed DriveWorks Solo project and all the extra functionality that you get. One of the features afforded to you in this project is the ability to control multiple sets of models in one project. What this means is that you can create rules for several different related models in one project allowing customers/ salespeople to create variations on a product in the same project. DriveWorks solo also…
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New DriveWorks Solo Sample Project – Fan Project
By using downloading and trying out our new DriveWorks Solo projects, you can learn how DriveWork Solo can help you create variations for your SolidWorks models. DrivreWorks Solo comes with a whole raft of new features that aren’t available in DriveWorksXpress including the ability to create drawings and export those drawings in different file formats. This means that you can send off specifications and information to your customers who won’t have SolidWorks or eDrawings installed. In this example, the user is presented with a PDF as well as the .EDRW file with the individual part and complete product drawings. DriveWorks…
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Thursday Technical Webinar – Implementing DriveWorks Solo
If you have just bought your copy of DriveWorks Solo or you are just looking for some implementation advice, this Webinar will take you through some of the steps involved with implementing DriveWorks Solo for your company. DriveWorks Solo allows for a wealth of model features and dimensions to be rules driven for automation. You can also use DriveWorks Solo to create easy to use forms that don’t sacrifice functionality. This webinar will explore the some key rules for rolling out DriveWorks Solo at your company with forms that are accesible and easy to use. Each implementation will be slightly…
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Join us for DriveWorks World 2014
DriveWorks World is our annual Technical Event for all DriveWorks Users with an active Subscription Support Contract and all DriveWorks Reseller Applications Engineers. We will be releasing DriveWorks 11 and showing how to get the most from the software.