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DriveWorksXpress is the free design automation tool included inside every seat of desktop SOLIDWORKS速 – start automating any part of your product design today!

DriveWorksXpress Design Automation

Design automation offers businesses the opportunity to streamline processes and adapt quickly to changing market conditions.

DriveWorksXpress is an easy to use, entry-level design automation tool included free inside SOLIDWORKS速. Our rules-based software allows you to create multiple versions of your SOLIDWORKS速 parts, assemblies and drawings, quickly and accurately.

DriveWorksXpress is ideal for automating everyday repetitive design tasks, espeically if the designs and projects you work on are the same but different.

It is widely used in many industries from trailers to conveyors, furniture to machinery, mechanical seals to pressure vessels, windows and doors and many more.

Quickly generate new versions of your SOLIDWORKS速 parts, assemblies and drawings.

DriveWorks isnt justfor complete product design. DriveWorksXpress allows you to automate any part of your SOLIDWORKS速 design, giving you the flexibility to automate time-consuming and repetitive tasks, simplifying your design process, and enabling you to use your time more efficiently.

A computer screen showing the DriveWorksXpress activation steps.

Easy to Set Up, Manage and Use

A DriveWorks design automation project iseasy to create, maintain and use.

No programming skills or consultants are required.

Simply activate DriveWorksXpress which is already installed under theSOLIDWORKS速 Tools menu and begin automating your designs!

Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS速 tasks and free up time to focus on product innovation and development.

If you offer many different product options or every customer order is bespoke, DriveWorksXpress helps you capture your design rules, recreate variations of existing designs, reduce repetitive tasks, save time, and improve product quality.

Run Project Again and Again

Once set up, run your project again and again for each custom order.

DriveWorksXpress captures information from your existing models and your engineering knowledge.

That information, including dimensions, features and configurations can then be controlled by a series of rules.

These rules are controlled from a simple input form, so all you need to do is fill out the form for each custom order, and DriveWorksXpress will do the calculations in the background and automatically generate the necessary files.

Reuse the input form over and over again, each time creating a brand-new set of files and their relevant drawings.

Meaning there is no need for complex macros, design tables or configurations.

Run hundreds of design tasks in minutes with DriveWorksXpress!

Saving Time with DriveWorksXpress

DriveWorks isnt just for complete product design, automation is powerful even if you only automate part of your product.

Before using DriveWorksXpress designing something such as a Standard Machine Sub-base or Leg Supports would take 30 minutes.

With DriveworksXpress this task takes just 1 minute, allowing you to focus your time on the more complex aspects of your designs.

This may only be a small part of your design process but the time savings are drastic and can be incredibly valuable to the overall design time.

Over time you can build on your DriveWorksXpress project to add more and more parts,until eventually your engineering time is spent on the parts of the design that really matter and add the most value.

Standard Machine Sub Base

From 30 minutes down to 1 minute

Leg Supports

From 30 minutes down to 3 minutes

Using DriveWorks to Automate Mundane Tasks

BW Container Systemsis a global packaging machinery firm serving the food, beer and beverage, wine and spirits, personal care, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and household products industries.

Some of the machines BW Container Systems manufacture require a machine guard.

This is only a simple item to design, but the guard cannot be designed until the machine design is complete, and if not designed quickly it could risk delaying delivery.

To overcome this, BW Container Systems are using DriveWorks to automatically generate models and drawings for these machine guards.

DriveWorks has allowed engineers at BW Container Systems to automate some of the mundane but essential engineering jobs, freeing them up to focus on other important design tasks.

With the introduction of DriveWorks, BW Container Systems can evolve product lines, meet new market needs and exceed customer expectations.

Start Automating – Free Inside SOLIDWORKS

If youve got SOLIDWORKS, youve already got design automation!

DriveWorksXpress is already installed inside every license of SOLIDWORKS速.

You’ll find it under the SOLIDWORKS速 Tools menu, you just need toactivate it to start automating.

Once you’ve saved time with DriveWorksXpress why not take your design automation even further with DriveWorks Solo.

Download a30-day full-feature free trialof DriveWorks Solo to see what you could achieve.

Try DriveWorksXpress and upscale to DriveWorks Solo or DriveWorks Pro at any time.

Design Automation for SOLIDWORKS速

SOLIDWORKS速 automation without complex macros, design tables or configurations

DriveWorksXpress is the time-saving Design Automation tool, free inside every licence of SOLIDWORKS速.

It’s ideal for configuring designs that are the Same but Different.

Automating your designs with DriveWorksXpress is easy:

  • Set up your project to capture your design knowledge.
  • Fill out your input form.
  • Create new SOLIDWORKS速 3D CAD parts, assemblies and drawings automatically.
  • Fill out your form to configure again and again, re-using your valuable design knowledge.
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How to Activate DriveWorksXpress in SOLIDWORKS速

To activate DriveWorksXpress inside SOLIDWORKS速 and start automating your designs, follow these quick and easy steps:

A screenshot of the SOLIDWORKS dashboard.

Step 1

Open SOLIDWORKS.

A screenshot of inside SOLIDWORKS, showing to click 'Xpress Products' and to select DriveWorks from a dropdown box.

Step 2

Go to Tools, Xpress Products, DriveWorksXpress.

As screenshot of the inside of SOLIDWORKS, with a box that shows the link to press to get your DriveWorksXpress activation code.

Step 3

Click on the link for My.SolidWorks.com/xpress to get your free activation code for DriveWorksXpress.

A screenshot of the DriveWorksXpress activation code page.

Step 4

Copy the DriveWorksXpress activation code.

A screenshot of the box that the product activation code should be entered into.

Step 5

Go back to SOLIDWORKS, paste the activation code in to the product code box and press OK.

A screenshot of the inside of SOLIDWORKS now that DriveWorksXpress has been activated and ready to use.

Step 6

Start automating!

DriveWorksXpress Tutorials, Sample Projects and More!

There are many DriveWorksXpress learning resources and training materials online.

You can access them for free, from anywhere.

A screenshot of one of the DriveWorksXpress sample projects.

Sample Projects

Download DriveWorksXpress Sample Projects. Each one is set up and ready to run inside SOLIDWORKS. Open and explore the project to learn how the rules have been set up.

Several How-To DriveWorksXpress videos.

How to Videos

Watch our DriveWorksXpress How to Video Clips to learn how to capture parameters in your SOLIDWORKS Model, create an input form and build rules to generate new variations.

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Training Tutorials

Learn how to use DriveWorksXpress by following these tutorials. There are a selection of tutorials showing different models, providing inspiration for how automating your own designs in SOLIDWORKS.

Add to your DriveWorks Knowledge and Get Certified

Demonstrate your DriveWorks knowledge and skills by completing the DriveWorksXpress Certification.

The DriveWorksXpress Associate is thefirst level of DriveWorks Certification. The DriveWorksXpress Training and Certification is a free certification forall engineering and design professionals who have access to SOLIDWORKS速.

What is Design Automation?

Custom products are often ‘same, but different’, sharing common features alongside aspects that are customized to meet the specific needs of the customer.

Preparing engineering data for a custom product typically involves an engineer copying existing 3D CAD models and updating dimensions, suppressing and un-suppressing features, and replacing components to meet the clients specifications. Once the 3D CAD models have been updated, drawings, BOMs, and cut lists can be created.

Design automation tools capture and reuse design, process, manufacturing, and cost estimation knowledge to automatically create the documents and data required to sell and manufacture custom products.

Achieve More with Design Automation

Create and Configure Custom Products, Fast

Offering customized products is a great competitive differentiator. It often leads to more sales, higher revenues, and happy customers. However, with more and more companies offering customization, you need to work smarter than your competitors.

Design automation enables you to turn around proposals quickly, design and manufacture efficiently and deliver on your promises consistently, all whilst maintaining a healthy profit.

Eliminate Errors

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

Save Time & Innovate More

Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS速 tasks and free up engineers to focus on product innovation and development.

SOLIDWORKS速 Gold Partner

DriveWorksXpress, DriveWorks Solo and DriveWorks Pro are certified SOLIDWORKS速 Gold Partner products.

Stop Wasting Your Engineers

Companies offering custom products are often putting their engineers under pressure. They’re squeezed to create proposal documents and drawings as fast as possible. This can lead to best-guess costings, for orders that aren’t guaranteed.

Engineering departments are wasted on tasks that could be automated. They have less time to re-engineer existing designs, update drawings and carefully check every detail. Jobs are then left open to errors, rework, backlogs, and delays. All of this can affect profit margins and damage reputation.

By automating time-sensitive and often repetitive upfront activities, you will reap the benefits. You have more time to innovate and add value to your products. You increase throughput and improve quality, enabling you to win more business.

Design Automation drawing.

Design Automation and Knowledge Capture

Design practices often evolve through years of industry experience. Companies need to capture and re-use the combined knowledge of their most experienced engineers. However, storing and sharing this knowledge with others is difficult.

Inside 3D CAD systems, expert users can add geometric relationships and equation-driven dimensions. This saves time but issues arise when making changes, or adding additional products. Unravelling the complex design references created by others is difficult and time-consuming.

DriveWorks uses a different approach, simple and straightforward rules and decision logic. You can easily capture and reuse your design, manufacturing and cost knowledge to use within SOLIDWORKS, to truly automate your business.

Automate Your Business One Step at a Time

With DriveWorks, you can automate as little or as much as you like, and at your own pace.
Start in engineering and add design rules to drive your 3D CAD models. Automatically create detailed drawings and generate Bills of Materials for manufacturing.

Give your engineers more time to focus on improving product quality and developing new products.

Then extend the benefits of automation to your sales department. Give sales teams a set of custom product options to choose from with guided selling.

Reduce errors and save time with automated quotations and cover letters.

With automation, sales teams become more proficient, customer inquiries are dealt with faster and throughput is increased. This leads to more orders, reduced operational overheads, and better customer service.

A computer screen showing the DriveWorksXpress activation steps.

Easy to Set Up, Maintain and Use

A DriveWorks design automation project is easy to create, maintain and use. No programming skills or consultants are required.

Create and manage your own custom configurator that suits your business needs. You can easily change and grow your project as and when you need to. Create a set of 3D models, design rules, forms and document templates once and use them over and over again. Based on your rules, DriveWorks automatically creates all the documents and data needed to sell and manufacture each custom order.

A computer screen showing DriveWorks rules technology.

Design Automation and Online Sales Configurators

Add your DriveWorks project to your company website as an online sales configurator. Enable your sales teams, distributors, dealers and customers to configure and order customized products anytime, anywhere, on any device. Connect your configurator to your other business systems, such as MRP, ERP, and CRM.

With DriveWorks you can create a full CPQ configurator solution. Cost custom products, determine customer-specific pricing and schedule deliveries based on available resources, inventory levels, and lead times.

Automate for Free

If youve got SOLIDWORKS, youve already got design automation. DriveWorksXpress is the free design automation tool, included inside every licence of SOLIDWORKS. Find it in the tools menu, activate your free licence and start automating.

Take design automation even further with DriveWorks Solo.

Download a 30-day full-feature free trial of DriveWorks Solo to see what you could achieve.

A computer screen showing the DriveWorksXpress activation steps.

How are manufacturers using DriveWorks design automation software?

A graphic showing the benefits DriveWorks has had on Marelli. Text reads: "With the implementation of DriveWorks, we decrease the chance of error and repetitive tasks, and gain in quality and robustness in deliveries''. The automation process created with DriveWorks has seen a 63% decrease in the time spent on repetitive tasks for customized projects. There is now more time to dedicate to developing new projects. Owing to the product development capabilities in DriveWorks and the easy integration with SOLIDWORKS, Marelli estimates that time spent on design has reduced by 50%. As customized products are designed faster, time between the customers initial request and their final approval of the design has significantly reduced. This is increasing customer satisfaction.

Marelli, based in Caxias do Sul, Brazil specialize in the corporate and collaborative furniture market, providing products for meeting tables, management rooms, and workstations, along with seating, fixed and swivel chairs, floor-to-ceiling partitions, sofa enclosures, and armchairs.

Since implementing DriveWorks, Marelli has achieved a number of goals:

  • Automating manual processes
  • Decreasing the amount of time spent on repetitive tasks for customized projects.
  • Making more time to dedicate to the development of new projects.
  • Improving customer satisfaction.

Find out more about how Marelli is automating with DriveWorks here.

DriveWorks Design Automation and CPQ Software

Use DriveWorks software to build adesign automation and online sales configurator solutionto suit your business needs.

DriveWorks is ideal for manufacturers whodesign and sell same but different products.

Enable engineers, sales teams, distributors and customers to design, engineer and configure to order, on any device.

Automate design processes and the creation of order-specific sales quotes, documents, and manufacturing data, including SOLIDWORKS速 parts, assemblies, and drawings.

The Benefits of Using DriveWorks Software

Eliminate Errors &
Re-Work

Save Time & Reduce Costs

Reduce Repetitive Tasks

Improve Data
Re-Use

Connect
Teams

Improve Customer Experience

Top 5 Advantages of DriveWorks Design Automation and CPQ, from a DriveWorks Expert

The commercial benefits of DriveWorks software are clear, and they are the advantages that first come to mind when we think about the importance of a design automation and CPQ solution.

However, for the individuals that set up and use DriveWorks software, there are additional benefits too, that you might not have considered.

DriveWorks solves common challenges for engineers, giving them more time to focus on the creative, more rewarding aspects of their role.

Before joining the DriveWorks team, Paul Gimbel has had a lot of experience of implementing DriveWorks software. He’s spent time chatting with other engineers, learning about their challenges and discussing the ways they have used DriveWorks software to solve them.

So, here, we find out what the top 5 advantages of using DriveWorks software are for the engineers who set up and use it.

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5. The Community of DriveWorks Users

You are not alone! The DriveWorks community is filled with people just like you, that have been through what youve been through and are happy to share their experiences and their stories.

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4. Guided Selling Reduces Strange Requirements

Guide your users through the design of your product, letting them know what options are available, and helping them find the best solution to their requirements, rather than letting your users guess whats best. Nobody knows your product better than you do.

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3. Automation Encourages Consistency

By automating your processes, it becomes easier to reuse process steps and components youve already created, resulting in a more streamlined design process.

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2. Creating Automation Forces Self-Reflection

When you implement DriveWorks, you have the opportunity to re-evaluate how you work and leverage the new technology to work smarter and faster.

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1. FUN!

This may seem a little counterintuitive, but DriveWorks automates the drudgery. That means that your designers, engineers, and others in your organization can let go of those non-value-added tasks and start doing the jobs you hired them for, the ones they really enjoy. Plus, I think implementing DriveWorks is a whole lot of fun, but hey, thats what I do!

A picture of Paul Gimbel, DriveWorks Sherpa.

Paul Gimbel
DriveWorks Sherpa

Paul is an enthusiast for innovation and automation. With industry experience and years of accumulated technical knowledge and insight, Paul is a highly experienced DriveWorks implementer. Paul often shares his in-depth product knowledge through articles, blogs, events, and in the DriveWorks forum.

Connect with Other DriveWorks Users and Add to Your DriveWorks Knowledge

DriveWorks Forums

Join the conversation – get answers, share tips and solutions with other DriveWorks users and experts.

DriveWorks Drivers

Quarterly online user group meetings, connecting DriveWorks users from around the world to share technical knowledge.

Tech Talks

Monthly knwoledge-sharing webinars, hosted by DriveWorks experts covering a variety of topics and answering your questions.

DriveWorks World

Our annual technical training event for DriveWorks users. Meet other DriveWorks users and hear the latest updates from our team.

DriveWorks Learning Portal

Access exclusive on-demand learning resources, watch recorded events and take DriveWorks certifications.

Tech Tips

Downloadable project examples created by DriveWorks experts to demonstrate specific functionality.

Get Started with DriveWorks Solo

Download a 30-day free trial of DriveWorks Solo to get started with DriveWorks, and see some of these benefits for yourself.

What are DriveWorks Tech Tips?

Tech Tips are downloadable project snippets, created by DriveWorks Experts to help you explore and understand specific aspects of DriveWorks technology and functionality.

They aim to answer the How do I do that? type of questions.

Our Tech Tips aren’t just a written tip or advice on how to use specific functionality inside your DriveWorks projects – they go much further than that. They’re downloadable, cut-down versions of DriveWorks projects, created to help you understand how functionality is used and how it fits into a wider DriveWorks implementation.

Download DriveWorks Tech Tips

Explore the Tech Tip example projects to delve inside DriveWorks technology and understand the functionality you would like to implement in your own projects. See how functionality is set up and used, or even copy and paste elements of our Tech Tips into your own DriveWorks projects to quickly build upon your implementation.

Tech Tips are a great starting point, especially when you are thinking “I know what I want to do, but what’s the best way to do it?”

DriveWorks Tech Tips are exclusively for DriveWorks customers with active subscription, DriveWorks value-added resellers and authorized DriveWorks Partners.

A screenshot of a page of available tech tips.
Technical Team Manager, Dave, at a computer screen.

What Makes a Tech Tip?

The DriveWorks Technical Team monitor and track all of the questions we receive via our technical support channels and in our User Forums. Our team look for common themes and create a Tech Tip to explain the answer in more detail. We then add them to our library to be accessed by all of our users.

Our own team also make suggestions for Tech Tips, either when developing the product, or when using the software ourselves day to day. Spotting opportunities to help our users learn is part of many of our processes at DriveWorks.

Submit Your Tech Tip Suggestions

Have an idea for a Tech Tip you would like to see? Let us know in the DriveWorks Forum

You can also suggest topics by emailing us at suggest@driveworks.co.uk

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Explore resources and content in the MyDriveWorks Community

MyDriveWorks is a great resource for anyone, with learning resources and opportunities to connect with other customers, resellers, and partners from around the world.

Before capturing your Master Models Assembly Structure inside DriveWorks, you need to decide which components need to be captured, and how to capture them.

The first question you should ask is,do any new models need to be created based on this component?

If they do, and Dimensions or Features need driving,they should be captured as a component. This will allow you to go on and capture Dimensions, Features, Custom Properties, and Drawings against the component.

You can then build rules for these captured elements inside your projects Model Rules.

The next question to consider is, does thecomponent need to be swapped for another, or have its configurations changedin the generated Assembly?

If the answer is yes,capturing the component as an Instancewill mean you can build Rules that allow the component to be swapped, and have its configuration driven.

If a component doesnt change,you dont need to capture it at all. The component that exists in the master assembly will continue to be referenced by any generated assemblies.

 

Here is an example in practice:

Inside SOLIDWORKS we have an Assembly called DoorAssembly with the Assembly Structure as pictured here.

A screenshot of the SOLIDWORKS feature tree.

If we capture this Assembly inside DriveWorks Solo, the Captured Assembly Structure tab opens, and we need to decide what to capture inside the Assembly.

A screenshot of Captured Assembly Structure window with door, handle and hinge unchecked.

We want to be able to drive the Door Parts dimensions and generate new files based on a Master Part. This means we need to capture it as a component by checking the associated checkbox.

A screenshot of the Captured Assembly Structure window open and only the door part unchecked.

In any new DoorAssembly files that we create using DriveWorks, we dont want new Handle Parts to be created. However, we do want to be able to swap in existing Parts from a library. To do this, we can choose to capture the Handle Part as an Instance.

With the DoorAssembly open, clicking on the Instances tab will show all the components that can be captured as Instances, clicking on the checkbox next to the Handle component will capture it as an Instance.

A screenshot of the Instances window inside SOLIDWORKS.

The final component to consider is the Hinge. We can leave this uncaptured as the component cant change. The Hinge Part being referenced by the Master DoorAssembly will continue to be referenced by any generated DoorAssembly Models. You wont need to build any Rules for the Hinge Part and running the Project wont generate any new Hinge Parts.

A screenshot of the Captured Assembly Structure window open and only the door part unchecked.

Inside your Projects Model Rules, swap the Handle Part for a different SOLIDWORKS Model and reference the existing Hinge Part in any generated models. This will allow you to create a new version of the DoorAssembly and Door Part.

A screenshot of Model Rules.

Learn more about Captured Assembly Structure in our online help file

See what you can achieve with design automation and get started for free with the DriveWorks Solo 30-day trial

Design Automation

Markets arechanging, and customers are expecting more from the products and services they are buying. Consumers want products faster, cheaper and easier than ever before,without compromising on quality. This is presenting a challenge for many businesses. To meet demand, manufacturers are turning to automation.

Design automation is enabling businesses to turn aroundproposalsquickly,design and manufacture efficientlyanddeliver on promisesconsistently, all whilst maintaininga healthy profit.

By automating time-sensitive and often repetitive activities, businesses canfocus on innovationand adding value to their products, improving throughput and quality to meet customers requirements.

Save time, reduce errors, improve quality, and streamline processes with DriveWorks.

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Why DriveWorks Solo?

UseDriveWorks Solo to quickly and easily create and configure custom productsinside SOLIDWORKS速.

The rules-based design automationeliminates errorsand expensive, time-consuming design changes.

Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasksand free up engineers to focus on product innovation and development.

DriveWorks Solo iseasy to set up, maintain and use. Deliver custom products faster and with greater accuracy, without using complex macros, design tables or code.

Get a head start bytrying DriveWorks Solo free for 30 days.

Get the Most Out of Your 30 Day Free Trial of DriveWorks Solo

We’ve created help and training resources so you can get the most from DriveWorks Solo and your 30 day free trial.

DriveWorks training manual page.

Training Tutorial

Follow the free Online Training to learn how to use DriveWorks Solo step by step. The training is on-demand in the DriveWorks Learning Portal so you can learn at your own pace and at a time that suits you.

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DriveWorks Community

Explore resources and content in the MyDriveWorks Community, with learning resources and opportunities to connect with other customers, resellers and partners from around the world.

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How-To Videos

Our How-To Video Clips include tips on setting up different aspects of DriveWorks, including design automation (CAD), form design, automating the creation of drawings, documents, running projects and more.

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Sample Projects

Download DriveWorks Sample Projects, explore them and get ideas for your own projects. Take a look at how they are set up and see a variety of DriveWorks functionality set up and ready to use.

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Online Help File

A complete online help file is available online 24/7. The DriveWorks Solo Help File gives information, best practices, and solutions. Learn about a variety of topics.

The DriveWorks Webinars & Events page.

Webinars and Learning Events

Join the DriveWorks Solo Getting Started and DriveWorks Solo Online Training webinars to learn more, ask questions and get up and running quickly.

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Articles Library

Our articles take an in-depth look at DriveWorks functionality and industry trends, alongside detailed how-to guides written by our technical experts.

DriveWorks Solo ROI Calculator page.

ROI Calculator

Calculate your ROI for DriveWorks Solo, based on automating one of your own products.
See the savings you can make and how soon you will benefit.

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Little Book of Rules

Filled with examples of the rules used to automate designs with DriveWorks and a guide to the syntax you can use. Get in contact with us to request a Little Book of Rules.

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Technology Examples

Explore the core technologies that make up DriveWorks software. Our Technology Examples go behind the scenes of our powerful technology, explore them to see what you can do with DriveWorks.

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Configurator Examples

Be inspired by ourDriveWorks Configurator examples. Our productconfigurator examplesshow whats possible withDriveWorks Pro. Explore and interact with the examples atDriveWorksLive.com

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Tech Tips

Examples to demonstratespecific functionality and answer common questions. Download and explore the Tech Tips to learn how you can re-implement the same functionalityinto your own DriveWorks projects.

Take Your Design Automation Knowledge Further

TheDriveWorks Solo Certificationis available to anyone with a DriveWorks Solo license, including the 30-day free trial.

The certification isa great way to get off to the best start with your DriveWorks Solodesign automationprojects.

Strengthen your DriveWorks Solo skills and push your DriveWorks projects further.

Complete the exam in less than 3 hours to learn more about design automation and add an extra certification to your resume.

Example DriveWorks Solo certificate given to all who complete the certification.

Download and Use DriveWorks Solo Free for 30 Days

Follow the 3 easy steps below to download the DriveWorks Solo 30 day free trial and see the functionality for yourself.

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Join the DriveWorks Community

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Download and Licence DriveWorks Solo

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Automate SOLIDWORKS

What is Design Automation and How Can You Benefit?

Custom products are often the same, but different’, sharing a common design that is customized to meet the specific needs of the customer.

Preparing engineering data for a custom product typically involves an engineer copying existing 3D CAD models and updating dimensions, suppressing and un-suppressing features, and replacing components to meet the clients specifications. Once the 3D CAD models have been updated, drawings, BOMs, and cut lists can be created.

Design automation tools capture and reuse design, process, manufacturing, and cost estimation knowledge to automatically create the documents and data required to sell and manufacture custom products.

Achieve More with Design Automation

Create and Configure Custom Products, Fast

Offering customized products is a great competitive differentiator. It often leads to more sales, higher revenues, and happy customers. However, with more and more companies offering customization, you need to work smarter than your competitors.

Design automation enables you to turn around proposals quickly, design and manufacture efficiently and deliver on your promises consistently, all whilst maintaining a healthy profit.

A hexagonal icon showing 2 engineers at a laptop.

Eliminate Errors

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

A hexagonal icon showing a design engineer working at a laptop.

Save Time & Innovate More

Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS速 tasks and free up engineers to focus on product innovation and development.

A hexagonal icon showing SOLIDWORKS on a screen with DriveWorks open and running.

SOLIDWORKS速 Gold Partner

DriveWorksXpress, DriveWorks Solo and DriveWorks Pro are certified SOLIDWORKS速 Gold Partner products.

Design Automation drawing.

Why Use Design Automation?

Companies offering custom products are often putting their engineers under pressure. They’re squeezed to create proposal documents and drawings as fast as possible. This can lead to best-guess costings, for orders that aren’t guaranteed.

Engineering departments are wasted on tasks that could be automated. They have less time to re-engineer existing designs, update drawings and carefully check every detail. Jobs are then left open to errors, rework, backlogs, and delays. All of this can affect profit margins and damage reputation.

By automating time-sensitive and often repetitive upfront activities, you will reap the benefits. You have more time to innovate and add value to your products, improving your position in the market. You increase throughput and improve quality, enabling you to win more business.

Design Automation and Knowledge Capture

Design practices often evolve through years of industry experience. Companies need to capture and re-use the combined knowledge of their most experienced engineers. However, storing and sharing this knowledge with others is difficult.

Inside 3D CAD systems, expert users can add geometric relationships and equation-driven dimensions. This saves time but issues arise when making changes, or adding additional products. Unravelling the complex design references created by others is difficult and time-consuming.

DriveWorks uses a different approach, simple and straightforward rules and decision logic. You can easily capture and reuse your design, manufacturing and cost knowledge to use within SOLIDWORKS, to truly automate your business.

2 computer screens showing SOLIDWORKS and DriveWorks running on the screens.

Automate Your Business One Step at a Time

With DriveWorks, you can automate as little or as much as you like, and at your own pace.
Start in engineering and add design rules to drive your 3D CAD models. Automatically create detailed drawings and generate Bills of Materials for manufacturing.

Give your engineers more time to focus on improving product quality and developing new products.

Then extend the benefits of automation to your sales department. Give sales teams a set of custom product options to choose from with guided selling.

Reduce errors and save time with automated quotations and cover letters.

With automation, sales teams become more proficient, customer inquiries are dealt with faster and throughput is increased. This leads to more orders, reduced operational overheads, and better customer service.

A computer screen showing the DriveWorksXpress activation steps.

Easy to Set Up, Maintain and Use

A DriveWorks design automation project is easy to create, maintain and use. No programming skills or consultants are required.

Create and manage your own custom configurator that suits your business needs. You can easily change and grow your project as and when you need to. Create a set of 3D models, design rules, forms and document templates once and use them over and over again. Based on your rules, DriveWorks automatically creates all the documents and data needed to sell and manufacture each custom order.

A computer screen showing DriveWorks rules technology.

Design Automation and Online Sales Configurators

Add your DriveWorks project to your company website as an online sales configurator. Enable your sales teams, distributors, dealers and customers to configure and order customized products anytime, anywhere, on any device. Connect your configurator to your other business systems, such as MRP, ERP, and CRM.

With DriveWorks you can create a full CPQ configurator solution. Cost custom products, determine customer-specific pricing and schedule deliveries based on available resources, inventory levels, and lead times.

See how you can use DriveWorks to build an online product configurator.

Automate for Free

If youve got SOLIDWORKS, youve already got design automation. DriveWorksXpress is the free design automation tool, included inside every licence of SOLIDWORKS. Find it in the tools menu, activate your free licence and start automating.

Take design automation even further with DriveWorks Solo.

Download a 30-day full-feature free trial of DriveWorks Solo to see what you could achieve.

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How are manufacturers using DriveWorks design automation software?

A graphic showing the benefits DriveWorks has had on Marelli. Text reads: "With the implementation of DriveWorks, we decrease the chance of error and repetitive tasks, and gain in quality and robustness in deliveries''. The automation process created with DriveWorks has seen a 63% decrease in the time spent on repetitive tasks for customized projects. There is now more time to dedicate to developing new projects. Owing to the product development capabilities in DriveWorks and the easy integration with SOLIDWORKS, Marelli estimates that time spent on design has reduced by 50%. As customized products are designed faster, time between the customers initial request and their final approval of the design has significantly reduced. This is increasing customer satisfaction.

Marelli, based in Caxias do Sul, Brazil specialize in the corporate and collaborative furniture market, providing products for meeting tables, management rooms, and workstations, along with seating, fixed and swivel chairs, floor-to-ceiling partitions, sofa enclosures, and armchairs.

Since implementing DriveWorks, Marelli has achieved a number of goals:

  • Automating manual processes
  • Decreasing the amount of time spent on repetitive tasks for customized projects.
  • Making more time to dedicate to the development of new projects.
  • Improving customer satisfaction.

Find out more about how Marelli is automating with DriveWorks here.

Use DriveWorks to build your own design automation and CPQ solution. DriveWorks is ideal for manufacturers who design and sell the same but different products.

What is DriveWorks Design Automation & CPQ Software?

Use DriveWorks software to build a design automation and custom online sales configurator solution to suit your business needs.

DriveWorks is ideal for manufacturers who design and sell ‘same but different’ products.

Automate the creation of sales quotes, documents, and manufacturing data, including SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings.

Through intelligent rules and logic, DriveWorks eliminates errors and enables guided selling.

Reduce repetitive tasks, errors, and rework, increase sales, and deliver custom products in record time.

All DriveWorks products are scalable. Any design automation project you create using DriveWorksXpress can be seamlessly migrated to DriveWorks Solo or DriveWorks Pro. Add extra capabilities to your projects as and when you need them.

Get to Know DriveWorks

Explore each level of DriveWorks software.

DriveWorksXpress

Use DriveWorksXpress free inside SOLIDWORKS.

DriveWorksXpress is the easy-to-use design automation tool included inside every license of desktop SOLIDWORKS. Create multiple variations of your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings quickly and accurately.

If you offer many different product options or every customer order is bespoke, DriveWorksXpress helps you capture your design rules, recreate variations of existing designs, reduce repetitive tasks, save time, and improve product quality.

  • One-time setup – set up once and run again and again.
  • No need for complex macros, design tables, or configurations.
  • Save time & innovate more – automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasks and free up time to focus on product innovation and development.
  • Eliminate errors – DriveWorksXpress uses rules to eliminate errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes.
Computer screen with DriveWorksXpress on the screen.
A computer screen with Activate DriveWorks Solo Trial on the screen.

DriveWorks Solo

Use DriveWorks Solo to quickly and easily create and configure custom products inside SOLIDWORKS.

DriveWorks Solo iseasy to set up, maintain and use, helping your company deliver custom products faster and with greater accuracy, without using complex macros, design tables, or code.

Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasksand free up engineers to focus on product innovation and development.

Reduce the cost of custom designs, respond quickly to sales inquiries, reduce repetitive tasks, and enhance product quality.

From one simple input form, DriveWorks Solo quickly generates 3D models, 2D drawings, bills of materials, sales quotes, cover letters, and more, automatically.

With simple rules and decision logic, it’s easy to capture and reuse all of your design, manufacturing, and cost estimation knowledge. Generate new variations of your designs with proposal documents, over and over again.

Create new product designs and sales quotes quickly using DriveWorks Solo.

  • 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.

DriveWorks Pro

Use DriveWorks Pro to build your own SOLIDWORKS automation and online 3D product configurator solution.

DriveWorks Pro is the ideal design automation and online sales configurator solution to help you meet the increasing demand for custom, bespoke, and personalized products.

By enabling your customers to configure products, get instant quotes, and place orders online, and by streamlining many of your time-consuming sales, engineering, and manufacturing processes, DriveWorks Pro gives you a competitive edge.

DriveWorks Pro is structured into individual software modules, each designed to address specific business needs.

Additional modules can be added as and when you need them to extend the benefits of design automation to your engineers, sales teams, distributors, dealers, and customers.

  • Connect sales and manufacturing to deliver custom products faster.
  • Ensure customers and sales teams configure the ideal solution every time with intelligent rules-based guided selling.
  • Enable customers and sales teams to configure custom products on any device.
  • Integrate seamlessly with other company systems, helping you work more efficiently and effectively.
  • Rules-based validation ensures you only offer products that can be manufactured, eliminating errors and boosting quality.
  • SOLIDWORKS automation eliminates errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes.
  • It’s easy to set up, maintain & use – create a custom solution that suits your needs.
  • DriveWorks is flexible and scalable – add to your solution as and when you need to.
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A screenshot of the DriveWorks Configurators page.

What Makes DriveWorks Software So Scalable & Easy To Use?

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DriveWorksXpress

Free entry-level design automation is included in every seat of SOLIDWORKS.

Activate in the SOLIDWORKS Tools Menu to get started.

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DriveWorks Solo

Powerful SOLIDWORKS part, assembly, and drawing automation.

Download your 30-day free trial of DriveWorks Solo and get started today.

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DriveWorks Pro

Complete SOLIDWORKS automation and online 3D CPQ configurator software.

Explore our configurator examples to see how flexible DriveWorks is.

How are Manufacturers Benefitting from Using DriveWorks Software?

A graphic explaining the benefits of DriveWorks for Knapheide. Text reads: "We do a lot of creating base models, and configuring that across the product line, and utilizing DriveWorks has allowed us to create that base model and handle that proliferation much more consistently, efficiently, and a lot faster as well''. The production process is much more efficient by creating a communication path and allowing users to open CAD files from others even if theyre on a different shift.DriveWorks has opened a communication bridge between designers and those on the shop floor. Knapheides engineers can now provide detailed 3D models directly to the shop floor. DriveWorks has enabled Knapheide to automate mundane tasks so that designers can focus on the fun part  the design cycle.

Based in Illinois, USA,Knapheideis a truck body manufacturer with a family-run history that spans over 175 years. They are committed to supplying a diverse product offering and encouraging customization.

Since implementing DriveWorks, Knapheide has achieved a number of goals:

  • DriveWorks has enabled Knapheide to automate mundane tasks so that designers can focus on the fun part the design cycle.
  • DriveWorks has opened a communication bridge between designers and those on the shop floor.
  • Knapheides engineers can now provide detailed 3D models directly to the shop floor.
  • Keeping up with demand that they struggled to meet before.

Find out more about how Knapheide is automating mundane tasks & keeping up with demand with DriveWorks here.

Find Out More About DriveWorks

Get in touch with us to find out more about DriveWorks, design automation and improving customer experiences.

Helping Manufacturers to Configure, Design & Sell Custom Products in Record Time

The ability to configure, price, and quote easily isessential for manufacturing companies of all sizes and across all industries to cost-effectively offerconfigurable products.

A configure, price, quote (CPQ) solution helps manufacturers meet the increasing demand for custom products, faster and with greater accuracy, to gain a competitive edge.

DriveWorks software enables you to build and manage your own custom configure, price, and quote solution.

CPQ solutions are built on rules, workflow, and user interface, and typically need to integrate with other company systems.

These core technologies and capabilities have underpinned DriveWorks since it was first introduced to design-to-order and engineer-to-order companies using SOLIDWORKS 3D design software in 2001.

CPQ Powered by Industry Leading Rules-Based Automation

A picture of the DriveWorks logo with in the centre of a process circle, with the text ''Configure, Price, Quote, Manufacture, Deliver''.

DriveWorks goes further than traditional CPQ solutions.

DriveWorks software is proven and extends the power of a CPQ solution, with industry-leading automation features. Save time and boost product quality by automatically creating accurate SOLIDWORKS manufacturing parts, assemblies, and drawings as well as order-specific sales and account information for your CRM system.

This rules-based approach ensures greater accuracy. Custom orders can go straight from customer inquiry right through to the shop floor, without time-consuming design changes and rework.

DriveWorks configurator software enables businesses to set up a configurable 3D CPQ solution that engineering and sales teams can use. DriveWorks software makes it easy for manufacturing companies to reap the benefits of guided selling and CPQ, quickly.

Seamless Links Between Customers, Sales and Engineering

CPQ solutions enhance customer understanding and shorten sales cycles by communicating design details with interactive 3D visualizations.

Dealers, distributors, and internal sales teams configure the ideal solution every time with DriveWorks’ intelligent rules-based guided selling and validation, eliminating errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes. Real-time pricing updates ensure accurate quotes are generated.

DriveWorks integrates seamlessly with other company systems to reduce bottlenecks, cut costs, optimize processes, and ensure accuracy. Improving communication between departments and keeping everyone up to date and in the loop is key.

DriveWorks CPQ enables manufacturers to respond quickly, improve processes and exceed customer expectations, giving them a competitive advantage to sell more and increase profitability with less rework and time-consuming changes.

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Control Permissions, Users and Processes

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Customizable workflows in DriveWorks give complete control over what tasks are completed, by who, and when.

Dynamically adding, editing, or even restricting user access is easy. Administrators can apply security settings to decide which users or teams have permission to perform specific actions in the workflow, such as configuring products, approving designs, and sending data to manufacturing.

Documents and data are automatically created at the right time, with control over when tasks are processed.

Relevant users are notified at each stage of the workflow and given the files and data they need to execute their tasks.

Because DriveWorks is a rules-based solution, even the UI can be customized to suit the user. For example, you can set up different views for sales, different views for engineering, and different views for CPQ administration.

How are manufacturers using DriveWorks CPQ for Manufacturing?

A graphic stating the benefits of DriveWorks for customer, Vallourec. The text reads: "We have significantly reduced our production launch time and intend to go even further with our process improvement to enhance our customer service''. At Vallourecs Netherlands office, DriveWorks is now the main tool for quotations and is used by their sales representatives as part of the workflow. Vallourec say they have ''better reactivity, efficiency and quality for customer service''. DriveWorks has helped Vallourec to improve and accelerate their production and sales processes by improving lead-times, reducing errors and increase of information quality.

Vallourecis known for premium tubular solutions, primarily serving the energy markets.

Since implementing DriveWorks, Vallourec has achieved several goals:

  • Improving lead times, thanks to time saved elsewhere during the design stages.
  • Improving information consolidation and quality.
  • Vallourec decided to extend the use of DriveWorks throughout their whole Drilling Products Division, which covers multiple functionalities, product lines, and plants.
  • Reducing errors and avoiding data crunching.

Read more about Vallourec’s success with DriveWorks here.

Try DriveWorks Configurators

DriveWorks is versatile, fully customizable and easy to use so you can build a CPQ configurator that suits your needs and your products.

Like what you’ve seen so far? See the software in action and learn more at www.driveworkslive.com

What is DriveWorks?

Use DriveWorks software to build a design automation and custom online sales configurator solution to suit your business needs.

DriveWorks is ideal for manufacturers who design and sell the same but different products.

Automate the creation of sales quotes, documents, and manufacturing data, including SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings.

Through intelligent rules and logic, DriveWorks eliminates errors and enables guided selling.

Reduce repetitive tasks, errors, and rework, increase sales, and deliver custom products in record time.

All DriveWorks products are scalable. Any design automation project you create using DriveWorksXpress can be seamlessly migrated to DriveWorks Solo or DriveWorks Pro. Add extra capabilities to your projects as and when you need them.

Get to Know DriveWorks

Explore each level of DriveWorks software.

DriveWorksXpress

Use DriveWorksXpress, free inside SOLIDWORKS to automate your Same but Different product designs.

DriveWorksXpress is the easy-to-use design automation tool included inside every license of SOLIDWORKS. Create multiple variations of your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings quickly and accurately.

If you offer many different product options or every customer order is bespoke, DriveWorksXpress helps you capture your design rules, recreate variations of existing designs, reduce repetitive tasks, save time, and improve product quality.

  • One-Time Setup – Set up once and run again and again.
  • No need for complex macros, design tables, or configurations.
  • Save Time & Innovate More – Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasks and free up time to focus on product innovation and development.
  • Eliminate Errors – DriveWorksXpress uses rules to eliminate errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes.

Activate your free license of DriveWorksXpress in the SOLIDWORKS tools menu.

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DriveWorks Solo

Use DriveWorks Solo to quickly and easily create and configure custom products inside SOLIDWORKS.

DriveWorks Solo iseasy to set up, maintain and use, helping your company deliver custom products faster and with greater accuracy, without using complex macros, design tables, or code.

Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasksand free up engineers to focus on product innovation and development.

Reduce the cost of custom designs, respond quickly to sales inquiries, reduce repetitive tasks, and enhance product quality.

From one simple input form, DriveWorks Solo quickly generates 3D models, 2D drawings, bills of materials, sales quotes, cover letters, and more, automatically.

With simple rules and decision logic, it’s easy to capture and reuse all of your design, manufacturing, and cost estimation knowledge. Generate new variations of your designs with proposal documents over and over again.

Create new product designs and sales quotes quickly using DriveWorks Solo.

  • 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.

Get a head start bytrying DriveWorks Solo free for 30 days.

DriveWorks Pro

Use DriveWorks Pro to build your own SOLIDWORKS automation and online 3D product configurator solution.

Suitable for any manufacturer designing the same but different products.

DriveWorks Pro is the ideal design automation and online sales configurator solution to help you meet the increasing demand for custom, bespoke, and personalized products.

By enabling your customers to configure products, get instant quotes, and place orders online, and by streamlining many of your time-consuming sales, engineering, and manufacturing processes, DriveWorks Pro gives you a competitive edge and turns mass customization into a cost-effective business strategy.

DriveWorks Pro is structured into individual software modules, each designed to address specific business needs.

Additional modules can be added as and when you need them to extend the benefits of design automation to your engineers, sales teams, distributors, dealers, and customers.

  • Connect sales and manufacturing to deliver custom products faster
  • Ensure customers and sales teams configure the ideal solution every time with intelligent rules-based guided selling.
  • Enable customers and sales teams to configure custom products on any device.
  • Integrate seamlessly with other company systems, helping you work more efficiently and effectively.
  • Rules-based validation ensures you only offer products that can be manufactured, eliminating errors and boosting quality.
  • DriveWorks SOLIDWORKS automation eliminates errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes.
  • It’s easy to set up, maintain & use so you can create a custom solution that suits your needs.
  • DriveWorks is flexible and scalable – add to your solution as and when you need to.

Explore what’s possible with our configurator examples on www.driveworkslive.com

DriveWorks Pro showing on several devices including a computer screen, Laptop, tablet and mobile phone.
A screenshot of the DriveWorks Configurators page.

What Makes DriveWorks Software So Scalable & Easy To Use?

A computer screen with DriveWorksXpress software on the screen.

DriveWorksXpress

Free entry-level design automation is included in every seat of SOLIDWORKS.

Upscale to DriveWorks Solo or DriveWorks Pro anytime.

Computer screens with DriveWorks Solo on it.

DriveWorks Solo

Powerful SOLIDWORKS part, assembly, and drawing automation.

Download your 30-day free trial of DriveWorks Solo and get started today.

DriveWorks Pro showing on several devices including a computer screen, Laptop, tablet and mobile phone.

DriveWorks Pro

Complete SOLIDWORKS automation and online 3D CPQ configurator software.

Explore our configurator examples to see how flexible DriveWorks is.

How are DriveWorks customers benefitting from investing in digital?

A graphic showing the benefits that ROSE Systemtechnik GmbH have experienced thanks to DriveWorks. A quote says ''The diverse possibilities, the simple administration of the rules and the worldwide support for our colleagues in India was ultimately the decisive argument for DriveWorks as a partner''. It also contains the text: Designers now work on separate projects in parallel, boosting team productivity. The risk of manual input errors is removed as the order moves from sales through to manufacturing. The modular nature of DriveWorks also makes it easy to add new product lines.

ROSE Systemtechnik GmbHis known for system solutions in the industrial housing sector.

Since implementing DriveWorks, ROSE Systemtechnik GmbH has achieved a number of goals:

  • Automating their design process
  • Saving engineering time spent on repetitive and low-value add activities, freeing up time for innovation.
  • Using the intuitive DriveWorksform designer, the ROSE team built a custom User Interface (UI) to input product requirements.
  • Rules set by the designers guide users through the product configuration, only displaying valid options.

Find out more about how ROSE Systemtechnik GmbH is automating with DriveWorkshere.

Find Out More About DriveWorks

Get in touch with us to find out more about DriveWorks and take your first steps towards design automation and improving customer experiences.

What is DriveWorks?

Use DriveWorks software to build a design automation and custom online sales configurator solution to suit your business needs.

DriveWorks is ideal for manufacturers who design and sell the same but different products.

Automate the creation of sales quotes, documents and manufacturing data including SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies and drawings.

Through intelligent rules and logic, DriveWorks eliminates errors and enables guided selling.

Reduce repetitive tasks, errors, and rework, increase sales on a global scale, and deliver custom products in record time.

All DriveWorks products are scalable any design automation project you create using DriveWorksXpress can be seamlessly migrated to DriveWorks Solo or DriveWorks Pro. Add extra capabilities to your design automation projects as and when you need them.

Get to Know DriveWorks

Explore each level of DriveWorks software.

Starting Small with DriveWorksXpress

Use DriveWorksXpress, free inside SOLIDWORKS to automate your Same but Different product designs.

DriveWorksXpress is the easy-to-use design automation tool included inside every license of SOLIDWORKS. Create multiple variations of your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies and drawings quickly and accurately.

If you offer many different product options or every customer order is bespoke, DriveWorksXpress helps you capture your design rules, recreate variations of existing designs, reduce repetitive tasks, save time, and improve product quality.

  • One Time Setup – Set up once and run again and again.
  • No need for complex macros, design tables or configurations.
  • Save Time & Innovate More – Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS速 tasks and free up time to focus on product innovation and development.
  • Eliminate Errors – DriveWorksXpress uses rules to eliminate errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes.

Activate your free license of DriveWorksXpress in the SOLIDWORKS速 tools menu.

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DriveWorks Solo

Use DriveWorks Solo to quickly and easily create and configure custom products inside SOLIDWORKS.

DriveWorks Solo iseasy to set up, maintain and use, helping your company deliver custom products faster and with greater accuracy, without using complex macros, design tables or code.

Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasksand free up engineers to focus on product innovation and development.

Reduce the cost of custom designs, respond quickly to sales enquiries, reduce repetitive tasks and enhance product quality.

From one simple input form, DriveWorks Solo quickly generates 3D models, 2D drawings, Bills of Materials, sales quotes, cover letters and more, automatically.

With simple and straightforward rules and decision logic, it’s easy to capture and reuse all of your design, manufacturing and cost estimation knowledge. Generate new variations of your designs with proposal documents over and over again.

Create new product designs and sales quotes quickly using DriveWorks Solo.

  • Eliminate Errors- DriveWorks rules-based SOLIDWORKS速 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.

Get a head start bytrying DriveWorks Solo free for 30 days.

DriveWorks Pro

Use DriveWorks Pro to build your own SOLIDWORKS automation and online 3D product configurator solution.

Suitable for any manufacturer designing same but different products.

DriveWorks Pro is the ideal design automation and online sales configurator solution to help you meet the increasing demand for custom, bespoke, and personalized products.

By enabling your customers to configure products, get instant quotes, and place orders online, and by streamlining many of your time-consuming sales, engineering, and manufacturing processes, DriveWorks Pro gives you a competitive edge and turns mass customization into a cost-effective business strategy.

DriveWorks Pro is structured into individual software modules, each designed to address specific business needs.

Additional modules can be added as and when you need them to extend the benefits of design automation to your engineers, sales teams, distributors, dealers, and customers.

  • Connect sales and manufacturing to deliver custom products faster
  • Ensure customers and sales teams configure the ideal solution every time with intelligent rules-based guided selling.
  • Enable customers and sales teams to configure custom products on any device.
  • Integrate seamlessly with other company systems, helping you work more efficiently and effectively.
  • Rules-based validation ensures you only offer products that can be manufactured, eliminating errors and boosting quality.
  • DriveWorks SOLIDWORKS速 automation eliminates errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes.
  • It’s easy to set up, maintain & use so you can create a custom solution that suits your needs.
  • DriveWorks is flexible and scalable – add to your solution as and when you need to.

Explore what’s possible with our configurator examples on www.driveworkslive.com

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A screenshot of the DriveWorks Configurators page.
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DriveWorksXpress

Free entry level design automation included in every seat of SOLIDWORKS.

Upscale to DriveWorks Solo or DriveWorks Pro anytime.

Computer screens with DriveWorks Solo on it.

DriveWorks Solo

Powerful SOLIDWORKS part, assembly and drawing automation.

Download your 30 day free trial of DriveWorks Solo and get started today.

DriveWorks Pro showing on several devices including a computer screen, Laptop, tablet and mobile phone.

DriveWorks Pro

Complete SOLIDWORKS automation and online 3D CPQ configurator software.

Explore our configurator examples to see how flexible DriveWorks is.

How are DriveWorks customers benefitting from investing in digital?

A picture with Odul's logo and text containing a summary of how they are benefitting from DriveWorks. The text contains the quote-"Our customers can configure products whenever and wherever they want, regardless of time, place, or device!'' and ''DriveWorks has helped us to establish a link between our PDM and ERP systems that wasnt possible before.''. Text says:Time spent specifying new products for customers is reduced by 40% and labor time is reduced by 70% and "The end-to-end automation process we required has been achieved perfectly with DriveWorks.".

DL MADEN聴 EYA, based in Turkey, has been a manufacturer of home appliances for more than 50 years, exporting to over 86 countries around the world.

Since implementing DriveWorks, DL has achieved several goals:

  • DriveWorks document generation capabilities mean all the desired files are automatically generatedandnamed and ordered correctly.
  • All documents related to each specific order, such as technical drawings, manufacturing documentation and purchase orders are automatically generated, saving time.
  • Documents are automatically sent to the relevant department at DL, reducing errors and manual work.
  • Adding DriveWorks to their design process has also reduced the time spent specifying new products for their customers by40%andreduced labor time by 70%

Find out more about how DL is automating with DriveWorks here.

Find Out More About DriveWorks

Get in touch with us to find out more about DriveWorks and take your first steps towards design automation and improving customer experiences.

Download DriveWorks Solo free for 30 days and see what you can achieve with design automation.

Design Automation

Markets arechanging, and customers are expecting more from the products and services they are buying. Consumers want products faster, cheaper and easier than ever before,without compromising on quality This is presenting a challenge for many businesses. To meet demand, manufacturers are looking toautomation.

Design automation is enabling businesses to turn aroundproposalsquickly,design and manufacture efficientlyanddeliver on promisesconsistently, all whilst maintaininga healthy profit.

By automating time-sensitive and often repetitive activities, businesses canfocus on innovationand adding value to their products, improving throughput and quality to meet customers requirements.

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Why DriveWorks Solo?

UseDriveWorks Solo to quickly and easily create and configure custom productsinside SOLIDWORKS速.

The rules-based design automationeliminates errorsand expensive, time-consuming design changes.

Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasksand free up engineers to focus on product innovation and development.

DriveWorks Solo iseasy to set up, maintain and use. Deliver custom products faster and with greater accuracy, without using complex macros, design tables or code.

Get a head start bytrying DriveWorks Solo free for 30 days.

Get the Most Out of Your 30 Day Free Trial of DriveWorks Solo

We’ve created help and training resources so you can get the most from DriveWorks Solo and your 30 day free trial.

DriveWorks training manual page.

Training Tutorial

Download the free Training Manual to learn how to use DriveWorks Solo step by step. There is also a training video for each lesson to make it even easier.

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DriveWorks Community

Explore resources and content in the DriveWorks Community. My.DriveWorksis a great resource for anyone, with learning resources and opportunities to connect with other customers, resellers and partners fromaround the world.

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Videos

Learn how to use DriveWorks atyour own pace. Watch ourHow to Video Clipsto get tips on setting updifferent aspects of DriveWorks. Clips cover: design automation (CAD), form design, automating the creation of drawings, documents, running projects and more

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Sample Projects

Explore a range of industry examples. DownloadDriveWorks sample projects, explore them and get ideas for your own projects. Take a look at how they are set up and see a variety of DriveWorks functionality set up and ready to use.

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Online Help File

A complete online help file is available online 24/7. The DriveWorks Solo help file gives information, best practices, and solutions. Learn about a variety of topics. They are searchable and indexed by google, so its easy to find what youre looking for to get the help you need when you need it.

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Webinars and Learning Events

Join the DriveWorks Solo Getting Started and DriveWorks Solo Online Training webinars to learn more, ask questions and get up and running quickly.

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Articles Library

Our extensivearticles libraryis a knowledge-share resource.

Our articlestake an in-depth look at DriveWorksfunctionality and industry trends, alongside detailed how-to guides written by our technical experts. Learn more and expand your knowledge.

DriveWorks Solo ROI Calculator page.

New: ROI Calculator

Calculate ROI for DriveWorks Solo, based on automating one of your own products. It accounts for the cost of the software, the time it will take to implement and the savings that can be made and how soon you will benefit.

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Little Book of Rules

Filled with examples of the rules used to automate designs with DriveWorks and a guide to the syntax you can use. Get in contact with us and we will provide you with the Little Book of Rules.

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Technology Examples

Go under the hood and see the differenttechnology in DriveWorks. Explore the core technologies that make up DriveWorks software. Our Technology demos go behind the scenesof our powerful technology. Explore theTechnology Examplesto see what you can do with DriveWorks.

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Configurator Examples

Be inspired by ourDriveWorks Configurator examples. Our productconfigurator examplesshow whats possible withDriveWorks Pro. Explore and interact with the examples atDriveWorksLive.com

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Tech Tips

Examples to demonstratespecific functionality. These example projects have been created by the DriveWorks Tech Team to demonstrate specific functionality. Use eachTech Tips to learn exactly how you canre-implement the same functionalityinto your own DriveWorks projects.

Download and Use DriveWorks Solo Free for 30 Days

Follow the 3 easy steps below to download the DriveWorks Solo 30 day free trial and see the functionality for yourself.

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Join the DriveWorks Community

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Download and Licence DriveWorks Solo

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Automate SOLIDWORKS

Design Automation for SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS速 automation without complex macros, design tables or configurations

DriveWorksXpress is the time-saving Design Automation tool, free inside every licence of SOLIDWORKS.

It’s ideal for configuring designs that are the Same but Different.

Configuring and automating your designs with DriveWorksXpress is easy:

  • Set up your project to capture your design knowledge.
  • Fill out your input form.
  • Create new SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD parts, assemblies and drawings automatically.
  • Fill out your form to configure, again and again, re-using your valuable design knowledge.
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How to Activate DriveWorksXpress in SOLIDWORKS

To activate DriveWorksXpress inside SOLIDWORKS and start automating your designs, follow these quick and easy steps:

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Step 1

Open SOLIDWORKS.

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Step 2

Go to Tools, Xpress Products, DriveWorksXpress.

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Step 3

Click on the link for My.SolidWorks.com/xpress to get your free activation code for DriveWorksXpress.

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Step 4

Copy the DriveWorksXpress activation code.

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Step 5

Go back to SOLIDWORKS, paste the activation code in to the product code box and press OK.

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Step 6

Start automating!

DriveWorksXpress Tutorials, Sample Projects and More!

There are many more learning resources and training materials online.

You can access them for free, from anywhere.

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Sample Projects

Download DriveWorksXpress Sample Projects. Each one is set up and ready to run inside SOLIDWORKS. Open and explore the project to learn how the rules have been set up.

Several How-To DriveWorksXpress videos.

How to Videos

Watch our DriveWorksXpress How to Video Clips to learn how to capture parameters in your SOLIDWORKS Model, create an input form and build rules to generate new variations.

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Training Tutorials

Learn how to use DriveWorksXpress by following these tutorials. There are a selection of tutorials showing different models, providing inspiration for how automating your own designs in SOLIDWORKS.

Add to your DriveWorks Knowledge and Get Certified

Demonstrate your DriveWorks knowledge and skills and complete the DriveWorksXpress Certification.

Our Certifications, created by our DriveWorks Technical Experts,test your capabilityand understanding of the training.

The DriveWorksXpress Associate is thefirst level of DriveWorks Certification. The DriveWorksXpress Training and Certification is a free certification forall engineering and design professionals who have access to SOLIDWORKS.

Architectural component manufacturers are using DriveWorks design automation & sales configurator software to improve manufacturing processes and be more efficient.

Architectural components often have to adhere to strict regulations and building codes. This can make it difficult to design variations of a product, custom orders often take a long time and are prone to errors. Design automation and CPQ software helps eliminate these errors and speed up the process. It also ensures rules and regulations are adhered to, and products meet customer requirements.

Read on to learn how architectural component manufacturers are improving processes and selling more with DriveWorks.

F.H.Brundle

F.H.Brundle is a family-owned business in the UK. Founded in 1889, they are wholesalers of steel products which include a market-leading range of handrail and balustrade systems. F.H.Brundle stocks over 8,500 products and new lines are continuously being added.

As F.H.Brundle are adding new products all the time, it was important for them to find a solution that they could set up and manage themselves. They wanted software that would allow customers to configure systems to their dimensions, creating quotes and detailed drawings in minutes. This would save hours of work and eliminate errors.

Using DriveWorks, they created Liveconfigurator, an online 3D configurator for their internal teams, distributors and customers.

The most important thing for F.H.Brundle is customer service. Liveconfiguratorprovides many benefitsfor their customers, both trade and consumers.

Customers canget a quote any time they want it, 24/7/365 and we can add in personalised discounts. Product information is readily available for a wide choice of options.

Currently, F.H.Brundle have online configurators for their pre-assembled post systems, frameless glass balustrade systems and their glass spigot systems. They are continuously developing Liveconfigurator to add configurators for more of their products.

F.H. Brundle is building customer loyalty, increasing sales and avoiding mistakes.

F.H.Brundle's logo, LiveConfigurator Logo with a screenshot of what it looks like inside the configurator, and a picture of an F.H.brundle residential balcony.

Learn more about how F.H.Brundle are providing quotes and technical drawing anytime with DriveWorks Pro:

markilux

markilux GmbH & Co. KG is an award-winning awning company, based in Germany. They have been specialists in creating awnings for over 40 years. As number 1 in the awning market, markilux is committed to staying as the leading manufacturer of innovative designer awnings in Germany.

Using DriveWorks software, designer Alexander Metten creates sets of rules that can define entire systems. These sets of rules are based on the native 3D data and are fully integrated into SOLIDWORKS and linked to selected parameters.

The individualisation of an awning can offer a multitude of choices and these variables have to be made configurable. The sets of rules are created in DriveWorks Administrator.

The customisation and personalisation of an awning can offer a multitude of choices and configurability.

Before the introduction of DriveWorks, products had to be customized by hand. Each assembly had to be manually opened and edited, and the drawing derived and saved. A large, time-consuming effort with an incalculable potential for errors. With the help of the DriveWorks configurator, designs, functions and stability all work in harmony.

markilux plans to expand its use of DriveWorks into sales. With DriveWorks, the sales configurator and partner portal can be used on other devices outside engineering. This means the markilux consultants will easily be able to start the order process by entering the individual measurements and details whilst on-site at the customers premises.

markilux's logo, a configuration of one of their awnings, and another configuration of a markilux awning in over a patio garden area.

Learn more about how markilux have reduced design time from 4 hours to 20 minutes with DriveWorks Pro:

Eurobond Doors

Eurobond Doors, headquartered in Wales, UK, manufactures design-to-order industrial and commercial steel doors. Eurobond Doors have been using DriveWorks since 2006.

Eurobond Doors product offering consists of 83 configurable parts. Their DriveWorks configurator allows them to easily enter the door specification as detailed in their job traveller. This can be done manually, or directly from an XML generated by their ERP system.

DriveWorks Autopilot and SOLIDWORKS generate the required models and manufacturing drawings automatically, ready for checking by the engineering team.

The most important about DriveWorks for Eurobond Doors is their improved efficiency and reduced costly data entry errors.

The underlying methodology of all the projects is based on group tables with most model rules being DWVlookups. This allows easy project maintenance as all the controlling data is within these group tables.

Adding different door furniture is simply a task of adding a new data row in the relevant table. This makes it very easy to make any updates to their product offering.

Eurobond Doors' logo and a screenshot of one of their input forms used to product specify.

Learn more about how Eurobond have increased efficiency and consistency with DriveWorks Pro:

Explore our DriveWorks Configurator examples, and see different examples of how DriveWorks can be used for design automation and digital selling.

Our folding door, canopy and steel door configurator examples are just some examples of whats possible with DriveWorks. Explore and interact with these and other examples at DriveWorksLive.com

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