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The latest DriveWorks service pack, SP 3 has been released. You can download it from our community now to take advantage of the enhancements.

A new month means new DriveWorks Webinars. Sign up for them now to learn more, ask questions and pick up handy tips and tricks.

A new series of Tech Team Thursday Webinars begins this week. Our Tech Team Thursday Webinars have had a makeover! These webinars are our opportunity to share the Tech Team’s knowledge with our DriveWorks Pro Customers – with an Active Subscription Support Contract – and Reseller Applications Engineers. The Webinars are your opportunity to learn beyond the training manual. They are an extremely valuable resource so we wanted to make it as easy as possible for you to get the most from them. They are now 30 minutes long so you can squeeze these new concise Webinars into your busy day. The new…

DriveWorks Supports SolidWorks 2015 That means we’ve done lots of additional testing to ensure that DriveWorks software still runs smoothly within and alongside SolidWorks. We have run thousands of tests using DriveWorks 11.2 with SolidWorks 2015.

Phil is back from a very busy month in Australia visiting InterCAD, their customers, SolidWorks User Groups and Australia’s attractions. Phil, DriveWorks Tech Team Manager has finally returned from Australia. He was there for over a month where he managed to squeeze in a lot of visits and get an impressive tan. Phil visited DriveWorks Reseller, InterCAD, at their offices across Australia. He spent time with the sales teams and business development managers and saw great sights like the DriveWorks flag we tweeted about. With InterCAD, he got the chance to visit some DriveWorks customers and see first hand how they…

Glen Smith, DriveWorks CEO and technology evangelist, recently talked to Microsoft’s OnWindows about how technology is improving collaboration in manufacturing. Glen was interviewed by Jacqui Griffiths for Prime magazine, along with Peter Schroer from Aras, Simon Floyd from Microsoft, Andy Kalambi from Dassault Systèmes and Paul Brown and Jen Larsson from Siemens.Jacqui has since written an article focused on how technology enables design teams to work together, wherever they are, and design smarter than ever before. “The ever increasing amount of technology available for manufacturing is developing so quickly that we are constantly working on integrating DriveWorks with the new technologies.” In…

Tech Team Thursday Webinars are returning this week! Thursday the 16th October is the first in a series of Tech Team Thursday Webinars. This one will be hosted by Matt, DriveWorks Technical Applications Specialist. He will cover topics that are relevant to DriveWorks Pro customers. The key to a successful DriveWorks project is planning. In this webinar Matt talks you through how to plan and organise your project by developing an implementation plan. Setting targets and reasonable goals helps you to see a quicker return on your investment giving you a greater structure and clearer direction. You will pick up…

How important is color in your Sales Configurator? As more and more companies choose to interact with their customers online and websites become shop windows, it’s increasingly important to think about user experience, especially for custom products. If you are using DriveWorks as an Online Sales Configurator – allowing your dealers and customers to view and fill out your forms to create quotes and configure new products – it’s important that your forms are consistent with your company’s branding and current color scheme. But did you know that the choice of color on your forms can also influence buyers? It’s fairly obvious that horrible…

Robert Hayward, member of the DriveWorks Tech Team and LJMU graduate, has had great success already. If you’ve ever had a support call with one of the DriveWorks tech team, it may have been with Rob Hayward. Rob was on placement at DriveWorks for 15 months before returning to Liverpool John Moores University  for his final year. He graduated with a first class degree in Product Innovation and Development. He then returned as a full time member of the DriveWorks team. As a recent graduate, Rob featured on LJMU’s news pages after attending the New Designers Exhibition in London. Pictured above is Rob with the other Product Design…

We have a brand new DriveWorks Reseller based in Poland, SolidExpert. SolidExpert have been a SolidWorks Reseller for over a decade and now, they are an Authorized DriveWorks Reseller too! They are based in Kraków in Poland, but also have offices in Gdańsk and Białystok. SolidExpert are fully qualified in SolidWorks and they are already working on their DriveWorks Certification. That’s another excellent Reseller ready to provide local support to DriveWorks users!

October is a busy month for DriveWorks, we’ll be at a total of 12 SolidWorks Roll Out Events. The events begin tomorrow with a DriveWorks team attending the first of many CADTEK SolidWorks Roll Out Events. This one will be in Haydock, UK. It will be followed by more CADTEK events in Doncaster and Newcastle this week. Next week there will be more CADTEK events in Wokingham, Bristol and Southampton, a SOLIDSOLUTIONS event in Huddersfield and CAD2M‘s roll out event in Arnhem, Netherlands. The third week of October will see us visiting CADTEK events in Coventry, Seven Oaks and Huntingdon and NTCADCAM‘s SolidWorks Roll Out…

A new month means a new set of DriveWorks Webinars and Online Training. We are almost into October already – for us in the UK, that means cold weather is approaching and it’s time to wrap up warm! As it’s a new month, it also means there are more DriveWorks Webinars and online training. There will be DriveWorksXpress and DriveWorks Solo Getting Started Webinars – hour long sessions that will save you many hours in the future. The Webinars are step by step guides for DriveWorksXpress and DriveWorks Solo, they include everything from capturing models and designing forms to creating…

What is it really like behind the scenes at DriveWorks? Gordon Tredgold explains. Maria Sarkar, VP and Co-founder of DriveWorks, recently met up with Gordon Tredgold, a school friend who is now one of the top 100 leadership experts. Gordon writes a blog – Leadership Principles and is the author of Leadership: It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint. After spending time with Maria and Glen (DriveWorks CEO and Co-Founder) here at DriveWorks HQ, he has written a blog post called ‘Does Leadership Define Culture‘. The blog post is based on conversations with Maria and Glen as well as what he saw first hand whilst…

We haven’t blogged about our Show & Tells for over a month! Although we haven’t blogged about it for a while, we have still been having weekly Show & Tells every Friday at DriveWorks HQ. We often blog photos of the Show & Tell presenters and tell you a little bit about their presentation. But what is it like from the perspective of the presenter? Matt Collins was on placement here at DriveWorks for 15 months. He’s recently had to go back to University (sadly for us, but good luck Matt!). On his last day, Matt did a Show & Tell all…

DriveWorks Supports SolidWorks 2015 That means we’ve done lots of additional testing to ensure that DriveWorks software still runs smoothly within and alongside SolidWorks. We have run thousands of tests using DriveWorks 11.2 with SolidWorks 2015.