From stand-alone seats to company-wide solutions, DriveWorks software can be used for Design Automation and Sales Configuration by most companies creating ‘Same but Different’ products.
Whether you are an engineer looking for a Design Automation solution or a company wanting to provide CPQ Product Configurators and Guided Selling for your own teams, distributors dealers and even customers, DriveWorks software is modular and scalable so you can set up and use the products to your advantage and at your own pace.
To find out more about each feature, simply click on the ticks in the product columns!
DriveWorks Product Comparison
Learn about the differences between DriveWorksXpress, DriveWorks Solo and DriveWorks Pro and decide which software solution is right for you.
From stand-alone seats to company-wide solutions, DriveWorks software can be used for Design Automation and Sales Configuration by most companies creating ‘Same but Different’ products.
Whether you are an engineer looking for a Design Automation solution or a company wanting to provide Product Configuration and Guided Selling for your own teams, Distributors and Dealers, DriveWorks software is modular and scalable so you can set up and use the products to your advantage and at your own pace.
Supported Operating Systems and Browsers
| DriveWorks Xpress | 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
| DriveWorks Xpress | 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 Advanced Feature Properties | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 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
| DriveWorks Xpress | 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
| DriveWorks Xpress | 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
| DriveWorks Xpress | DriveWorks Solo | DriveWorks Pro | |
| Automatic 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 (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
| DriveWorks Xpress | 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
| DriveWorks Xpress | 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
| DriveWorks Xpress | 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
| DriveWorks Xpress | 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
| DriveWorks Xpress | 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 | ✓ |
