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DriveWorks HQ has had a makeover. You may have seen our blogs this week about the new branding we have around the DriveWorks office. Today's feature artwork is from the meeting room. The Meeting Room It's not just for meetings but for training, brainstorming and DriveWorks Design Club. The walls are always filled with ideas, [...]

DriveWorks HQ has had a makeover. This week, we’ve been blogging about the new artwork designed by DriveWorks Graphics Designer, Stefan, that we have had installed around the office. Below, is the new branding in the Tech Team area of the office and the reasons why Stefan chose this design. The DriveWorks Tech Team This [...]

DriveWorks HQ has had a makeover. You may have seen on our Facebook page, DriveWorks HQ has had a makeover. We are lucky enough to have a 250 year old barn as our office and we didn't think it was possible to make it look any better. You'll see in this series of blog posts, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

We haven't blogged about our Show & Tells for over 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 [...]

Heat and Sensor Technology has been using DriveWorks Software for a while now, we caught up with the team to see how they've been using it. Heat and Sensor Technology is a premier manufacturer of industrial electric resistance heaters and sensors available primarily to the plastic injection industry. They have distributors across the USA and [...]

Following his DriveWorks training with Chris, Tom, Technical Solutions Specialist at CADimensions has written a blog post about the skills he learnt. Earlier this month we blogged about Chris, DriveWorks Pre-Sales Engineer, providing DriveWorks training at CADimensions in New York. As promised, Tom has written a blog post all about the week he and his [...]

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