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Our long awaited new community is now live. It’s a place where users can interact, share ideas, get help and download the latest software releases and service packs.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.