Supported Operating Systems and Browsers | DriveWorksXpress | DriveWorks Solo | DriveWorks Pro |
Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (DriveWorks Desktop Applications) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
All of the above plus Windows Server (2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019) (DriveWorks Live Web application) | ✓ | ||
Google Chrome 8+, Mozilla Firefox 4+, Microsoft Edge 12+, Microsoft IE 11+, Safari 5.1+ (Configuring products in a Browser through DriveWorks Live) | ✓ | ||
Cloud Hosting: Microsoft Azure | ✓ |
CAD - Controlling SOLIDWORKS 3D Models and 2D Drawings | DriveWorksXpress | DriveWorks Solo | DriveWorks Pro |
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.) | ✓ |
Document Creation | DriveWorksXpress | DriveWorks Solo | DriveWorks Pro |
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 Additional File Formats (PDF, HTML, TXT, XML, etc.) | ✓ |
Output Generation | DriveWorksXpress | DriveWorks Solo | DriveWorks Pro |
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 | ✓ |
User Interface Design | DriveWorksXpress | DriveWorks Solo | DriveWorks Pro |
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 (Hyperlink, Label, List Box, Option Group, Picture Box, Slider) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Advanced Form Controls (3D Preview, Child Specification List, Data Table, Date Picker, Frame Control, Macro Button, 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) | ✓ | ✓ | |
Project hierarchy (run a specification inside a specification to any level (For example a contract with multiple configurable line items) | ✓ |
Working with Data and Rules | DriveWorksXpress | DriveWorks Solo | DriveWorks Pro |
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 260 engineering, mathematic and scientific 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 | ✓ | ✓ |
Maintainability, Reporting and Diagnostics | DriveWorksXpress | DriveWorks Solo | DriveWorks Pro |
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) | ✓ |
Scalability | DriveWorksXpress | DriveWorks Solo | DriveWorks Pro |
Import DriveWorksXpress Projects | ✓ | ✓ | |
Import DriveWorks Solo Projects | ✓ | ||
Underlying database – Microsoft SQL Server | ✓ | ||
Security – Users and Teams | ✓ | ||
Security – Active Directory compatibility | ✓ | ||
Granular permissions | ✓ | ||
Zero-Conversion web access | ✓ | ||
Unattended model generation | ✓ | ||
Standalone user seats | ✓ | ||
Fully customizable work flow – (who, what and when) | ✓ | ||
Automatic processing of external data | ✓ | ||
Fully documented API with Software Development Kit | ✓ | ||
Plugins | ✓ |
Integration | DriveWorksXpress | DriveWorks Solo | DriveWorks Pro |
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 fully documented Application programming Interface | ✓ |
Online Configurator and DriveWorks 3D | DriveWorksXpress | DriveWorks Solo | DriveWorks Pro |
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 | ✓ | ||
Server side rendering of web optimized DriveWorks 3D files | ✓ | ||
Image fall back mode when no WebGL on client machine | ✓ | ||
Model click interaction | ✓ | ||
Transparent image support | ✓ |
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