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Compare DriveWorksXpress, DriveWorks Solo, and DriveWorks Pro.
Flexible and scalable
Get started with any DriveWorks software and upgrade as your requirements change.
Free entry-level design automation software included inside SOLIDWORKS®.
Entry-level SOLIDWORKS part and assembly automation.
Create a drawing for each part and assembly.
SOLIDWORKS® part, assembly, and drawings automation add-in.
Automate SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings. Control where files are stored.
Generate production-ready drawings, BOMs & quote documents automatically.
Enter product specifications and preview designs inside SOLIDWORKS.
SOLIDWORKS® design automation and CPQ product configurator software.
Complete SOLIDWORKS part, assembly and drawing automation.
Automatically generate manufacturing and sales documents.
Configure order-specific designs in a browser on desktop, mobile, or tablet.
Visualize configured products with interactive 3D previews.
Integrate with SOLIDWORKS PDM, CRM, ERP, CAM and other company systems.
Scalable and flexible licensing options.
Feature comparison
Compare the features included in DriveWorksXpress, DriveWorks Solo, and DriveWorks Pro.
Windows 10, Windows 11 (DriveWorks Desktop Applications)
All of the above plus Windows Server (2019, 2022) (DriveWorks Live web application)
Google Chrome 8+, Mozilla Firefox 4+, Microsoft Edge, Safari 5.1+ (configuring products in a browser through DriveWorks Live)
Cloud Hosting: Microsoft Azure, AWS
CAD – creating SOLIDWORKS 3D models and 2D drawings
Drive dimensions, features, and custom properties
Drive color, material, and textures
Drive advanced feature properties (Hole Wizards, Sheet Metal, Weldments)
Drive instances
Replace components (with existing files or dynamically driven files)
Create additional model file formats (STEP, STL, PDF, DXF, JPEG, etc.)
Full control over new model file names and locations
Control multiple model sets from a single project
Run SOLIDWORKS model macros
Generative design – create new features on the fly (configurations, insert components, mates, etc.)
Create a drawing for each part and assembly
Create multiple drawings for each part and assembly
Full control over new drawing file names and locations
Create additional drawing file formats (PDF, DXF, DWG, JPEG, etc.)
Control drawing sheets (re-scale, rename, delete)
Control drawing views (re-scale, re-position, delete)
Control annotations (dimension text, notes, symbols, etc.)
Control dimension positions
Control custom properties, break lines, and layers
Run SOLIDWORKS drawing macros
Run additional tasks on the fly (auto balloon, arrange dimensions, rescale and position views, etc.)
Create documents (such as sales quotes, purchase orders, bills of materials, etc.)
Built-in document templates
Fully customizable document creation (from Word, Excel, XML, etc.)
Send HTML emails with attachments
Create PDF from markdown, manipulate existing PDF files
Create additional file formats (PDF, HTML, TXT, XML, etc.)
Immediate generation of SOLIDWORKS models and drawings
Real-time preview (On Demand) – updates model while specifying
Manual release of generation queue – allows multiple specifications to have their models generated from a queue
Automatic generation – unattended generation of outputs
Load balancing – distributes output generation over multiple machines
Priority processing – change the order that outputs are created based on rules
Output tagging – generate outputs on targeted machines or in specific locations
Basic form designer
Expert form designer (resolution and control guides, control grouping, control property grid, etc.)
Multiple form creation with dynamic navigation
Basic form controls (text box, numeric text box, drop-down, spin button, check box)
Enhanced form controls (check box group, hyperlink, label, list box, option group, picture box, slider, toggle switch)
Advanced form controls (3D preview, child specification list, clipboard button, data table, date picker, frame control, macro button, option button, TinyMCE control, upload control, etc.)
Dynamic options for list controls
Dynamic control of enable and visible properties of form controls
Dynamic control over fonts and colors
Static validation and validation messages
Dynamic validation and validation messages
Copy and paste form controls
Re-skin controls
Support for responsive forms (allows re-positioning of controls when used on screens of different sizes)
Web styling with CSS
Project hierarchy (run a specification inside a specification to any level (For example a contract with multiple configurable line items)
Use tabular data to calculate rules
Copy and paste Excel data
Create internal data tables
Use dynamic data from ODBC Data sources in rules (SAP, Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer, etc.)
Export data to ODBC data sources (for example SAP, Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer)
Pull and push data dynamically to and from SQL Server databases using SQL or Windows authentication
Create group-level tabular data for use across an entire implementation
Create calculation tables where each cell can be calculated from other cells
Create rollup data tables – where information such a price or BOM quantities is rolled up through the project hierarchy
Web service integration – communicate with any web service or use DriveWorks as a web service
Over 250 engineering, mathematic and scientific functions
Create custom formulas as reusable lambda functions
Over 50 vector (3D), database and PDM functions
Rules builder with function wizard and rule insight (rule breakdown and drill down, function assistance, syntax highlighting and function helper text)
Reusable rules (Variables)
Pervasive search/filtering capabilities
Rules commentary
Rules revisioning
Reporting on model generation success or failure
Reporting on specification process success or failure
Real-time testing during form design
Rules analysis and breakdown
What-if scenarios (specification test mode)
Interactive step through of model generation
Rule profiling (rule-specific error debugging, performance solving and insight features)
Import DriveWorksXpress projects
Import DriveWorks Solo projects
Underlying database – Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server fully supported
Security – users and teams
Security – Single Sign On (SSO) Active Directory compatibility
Granular permissions
Zero-conversion web access
Unattended model generation
Standalone user seats
Fully customizable workflow – (who, what and when)
Built-in apps providing ready-to-run functionality:
- Dashboard – link to projects, access KPI’s
- CPQ – full configure, price, quote (CPQ) solution
- Scheduler – apply tasks to run on a schedule
Automatic processing of external data
Fully documented API with Software Development Kit
Plugins
SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional (automatic check-in of models, drawings and documents)
Salesforce
3rd party system Integration through file import and export
3rd party system Integration through SQL\ ODBC connections
3rd party system Integration through web services
3rd party system integration through a fully documented Application Programming Interface
Direct web access through the application
Run as a service through Internet Information Services (IIS)
Application mode – replicate desktop running directly on the web
Web theme with basic re-skinning
Choice of fully responsive skins
Integration Theme with Web API enabling full integration with existing websites
Session management – control license usage over the Internet
Image gallery – display image files as they are created
Configurable 3D in a browser
Virtual reality support
Real-time 3D text support
Create visually realistic appearances with physically based rendering (PBR)
Server-side rendering of web-optimized DriveWorks 3D files
Image fallback mode when no WebGL is on the client machine
Model click interaction
Transparent image support
DriveWorks Pro consists of multiple software modules. Learn which modules offer functionality to meet your needs.
- Preview generation (On Demand) is available for DriveWorks Solo and Pro modules that run as an add-in to SOLIDWORKS and are not available in DriveWorks Live.
- The modules DriveWorks User and DriveWorks Live provide access for users to enter data.
- DriveWorks Live provides seamless conversion of DriveWorks projects for web access.
- DriveWorks Autopilot is required for some features.
- Multiple licenses of DriveWorks Autopilot are required for some features.
- DriveWorks User is required for some features.
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