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Why DriveWorks Solo?


DriveWorks Solo is the ideal solution to transform how you design, configure and sell custom products. Using DriveWorks Solo, design engineers can automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS® tasks so they have more time to work on new product design. Automating and streamlining the process of designing, configuring and selling products drives sales and improves business efficiency.


DriveWorks Solo: Streamlining the design and configuration of custom products

Configure and automate custom products inside SOLIDWORKS

Eliminate Errors: DriveWorks rules-based SOLIDWORKS automation eliminates errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes.

Save Time & Innovate More: Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasks and free up engineers to focus on product innovation and development.

Easy to Setup, Maintain & Use: Deliver custom products faster and with greater accuracy, without using complex macros, design tables or code.


Powerful SOLIDWORKS automation for parts, assemblies and drawings

Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasks 

Automate your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies and detailed drawings.

  • Control dimensions, features, custom properties, advanced feature parameters, instances and file formats
  • Dynamically replace components
  • Create a library of components using intelligent file reuse

Automatically create accurate manufacturing drawings

Save time and boost product quality by automatically creating accurate manufacturing drawings with DriveWorks Solo.

  • Control sheets, views, annotation text, annotation positions, layers, break lines and custom properties
  • Generation reports provide a complete audit trail of drawing values
  • Save drawings out in additional file formats, such as PDF, JPEG, DXF and DWG

Design accuracy with preview results

Preview results as you enter design requirements before you generate final models, drawings and documents.

  • Preview the effect of your selections as you configure
  • Quickly try ‘what if’ scenarios to test design requirements
  • Make informed decisions to and ensure product suitability

Complete control on formats and save location

You have full control over the save location and folder structure of files created by DriveWorks Solo. Automatically create any additional file format available in SOLIDWORKS.

  • You have complete control over file naming, use intelligent file naming to create a library of parts
  • Save files exactly where you want them
  • Create any additional file format available in SOLIDWORKS

Smart configuration with customized input forms

DriveWorks Solo has an inbuilt form designer to create user-friendly input forms.

  • Rules-based form-to-form navigation controls which forms are shown based on selections
  • Use images to aid the configuration process and provide selection feedback
  • Control visibility and validation of input controls based on rules

Easy data addition and manipulation

Add your existing static tabular data into DriveWorks Solo, use it on your forms and within your rules.

  • DriveWorks Solo includes 60 table functions to manipulate data
  • Centralize and maintain your existing engineering data in DriveWorks
  • Minimise errors and ensure data is always up to date

Templates to streamline your sales and manufacturing documents

Quickly respond to sales inquiries with accurate documents using the DriveWorks Solo quote, covering letter and BOM templates.

  • Reduce time spent preparing documents for customer inquiries
  • Build rules to control what is included in your documents
  • Reports provide auditing of document content

DriveWorks Solo in action

Carrosserie Cazaux are a leading manufacturer of custom-made refrigeration units for carrier vehicles, as well as containers, cold rooms, trailers and custom units.

Carrouserie Cazaux needed a product configurator that could be used inside SOLIDWORKS to drive dimensions, appearances and feature placement on their models.

Using DriveWorks Solo, Carrosserie Cazaux have developed a configurator used by their engineering team. The configurator automates the creation of manufacturing data and drawings, updating each one with the designer, date and client.

A key feature of DriveWorks Solo for Carrosserie Cazaux is the ability to work with tabular data. Data from existing databases and spreadsheets is imported as static tables, allowing the data to be queried and used to drive new variations.

“DriveWorks is interactive and fun to use. The most important thing is DriveWorks Solo has increased the speed in getting our products into production.

Guillaume Guerin, Design Engineer at Carrosserie Cazaux


Calculate your ROI from DriveWorks Solo

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