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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.

We’ll be at Concept2Design, hosted by CADD Edge. Join us there, August 21st-22nd!

A local artist has very kindly donated a prize for the DriveWorks Bake Sale for Cancer Research UK.

The third DriveWorks 3D Preview Tech Tip from SolidXperts.

Find out about the DriveWorks Online Help Files, helpful videos on the DriveWorks YouTube page and future Getting Started Webinars.

Read about DriveWorks Solo Webinar on 2nd July 2014 and how to sign up for it.

Sign up for the DriveWorks Xpress webinar on 01/07/2014.

We were pleased to welcome SolidWorks Partner Team, Technical Marketing Specialist, Shyam Venugopal to The Barley Store recently. In addition to meeting our entire team during his visit, Maria took Shyam to visit DriveWorks Reseller CADTEK in Furness Vale and also DriveWorks Customer, furniture specialists, Neville Johnson so he could see how they are automating [...]

DriveWorksXpress is the free design automation tool used by many engineers around the world. You’ll find it in every seat of SolidWorks. However if you have used Xpress and find that you would like MORE design automation / configurator functionality, you can download DriveWorks Solo and try it out – at zero cost. You can even use some of our own completed DriveWorks Solo sample projects to help you explore the additional functionality. One of our newest DriveWorks Solo Sample projects, a Solar panel assembly, demonstrates a number of DriveWorks Solo features that you won’t find in DriveWorksXpress. Configure your Solar panel using the DriveWorks Solo form that will appear in the SolidWorks task pane.               The forms show off the added Form Designer capability that you get with DriveWorks Solo and are quite graphic and easy to fill out. DriveWorks Solo is great when it comes to performing calculations in the background too and this example shows the expected BTU energy output based on the size of the panel. And because you can  look up value in tables in DriveWorks Solo, we have also used the project to show how you can display relevant pricing (US dollar, GB Pound or Euro) based on the country entered. When you run the project, DriveWorks Solo will automatically generate all the parts, assemblies and drawings – saving lots of time!   You can download this DriveWorks Solo Sample Project here You can download DriveWorks Solo here

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Check out the DriveWorks Live Integration Module. DriveWorks Pro is made up of different license types: DriveWorks Administrator, DriveWorks Autopilot and DriveWorks Live. Companies that want to integrate DriveWorks as a configurator in to an external website, can use the integration module functionality in DriveWorks Pro Live to do this. This webinar will show you how to use the integration functionality to pass values into a specification from the URL itself, or by embedding your DriveWorks forms using DriveWorks Live in a frame or iframe, on your existing website. We will cover how to start using the integration module to pass data to the specification through the URL as well as more advanced options such as how to Auto Login to your DriveWorks Group and even how to automatically start a specification. If you are taking your forms and putting them inside your own website then you will want to think about using the functionality of the integration module and the features it brings. This is a value add event for DriveWorks Customers with an active subscription support contract and all Authorized Value Added DriveWorks Resellers. You can register here Customers Resellers

DriveWorks 11 SP 0 is now available to download. As ever we have listened to our customers and resellers 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.