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Interview with DriveWorks CEO

SOLIDWORKS World 2017 brought together more than 5,000 engineers and designers from across the globe.  The event provided the ideal opportunity to discover the latest in SOLIDWORKS 3D applications and engineering technologies that help millions of SOLIDWORKS users create compelling customer experiences.


Jeff Rowe interviews Glen Smith, CEO of DriveWorks, SOLIDWORKS Gold Partner, at SOLIDWORKS World 2017 for MCADCafe.

Watch the video to hear what Glen has to say about DriveWorks Design Automation and Configurator software.

Glen Smith, CEO and Co Founder of DriveWorks Ltd, is a graduate Mechanical Engineer with a passion for automation. In this interview he champions the case for engineers involved in ‘same but different’ designs to be able to automate repetitive tasks and streamline their design to manufacturing processes.

He explains that since writing that very first line of code, DriveWorks  has grown significantly to reflect market trends. Today it is used both inside manufacturing companies by engineering teams as well as outside, as a valuable sales tool.

Companies of all sizes and from many industries, are using configurators that they have built using DriveWorks to configure custom products on desktop, mobile and tablet devices.

DriveWorks Ltd have developed 3 SOLIDWORKS Certified Gold Partner Products, one of which, DriveWorksXpress, has been embedded by DS SOLIDWORKS in to every version of SOLIDWORKS.

Anyone with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD can automate with DriveWorksXpress, just follow these simple steps to Activate to Automate.