DriveWorks Solo
Powerful SOLIDWORKS® part, assembly, and drawing automation – start your 30-day free trial today.
DriveWorks Solo overview
DriveWorks Solo sits in the SOLIDWORKS® task pane, enabling engineers to configure custom products and automatically generate order-specific SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings.
Setting up DriveWorks Solo quick and easy. Capture the parameters engineers manually update in SOLIDWORKS, create forms to enter product requirements, and build rules to accurately calculate how the captured parameters should be updated.
There’s no need for complex macros, design tables or code.
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Set up once, run over and over again
DriveWorks Solo is simple to set up and maintain. Set up once then run your configurator over and over again to create order-specific SOLIDWORKS parts assemblies and drawings.
Increase throughput
Increase throughput and spend more time on what matters most by automating repetitive, time consuming SOLIDWORKS design tasks.
Eliminate errors
Ensure configured products always meet customer requirements and product constraints using intelligent rules-based configuration.
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DriveWorks Solo features
Powerful SOLIDWORKS automation for parts, assemblies and drawings.
Powerful SOLIDWORKS automation
Automatically create order-specific versions of your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings.
- Control dimensions, features, custom properties, advanced feature parameters, instances and file formats.
- Dynamically replace components.
- Create a library of components using intelligent file reuse.
Advanced drawing control
Save time and boost product quality by automatically creating accurate manufacturing drawings with DriveWorks Solo.
- Control sheets, views, annotation text, annotation positions, layers, break lines and custom properties.
- Generation reports provide a complete audit trail of drawing values.
- Save drawings out in additional file formats, such as PDF, JPEG, DXF and DWG.
Preview results
Preview results as you enter design requirements before you generate final models, drawings and documents.
- Preview the effect of your selections as you configure.
- Quickly try ‘what if’ scenarios to test design requirements.
- Make informed decisions to and ensure product suitability.
File formats and save location
You have full control over the save location and folder structure of files created by DriveWorks Solo. Automatically create any additional file format available in SOLIDWORKS.
- You have complete control over file naming, use intelligent file naming to create a library of parts.
- Save files exactly where you want them.
- Create any additional file format available in SOLIDWORKS.
Custom input forms
DriveWorks Solo has an inbuilt form designer to create user-friendly input forms.
- Rules-based form-to-form navigation controls which forms are shown based on selections.
- Use images to aid the configuration process and provide selection feedback.
- Control visibility and validation of input controls based on rules.
Static tabular data
Add your existing static tabular data into DriveWorks Solo, use it on your forms and within your rules.
- DriveWorks Solo includes 60 table functions to manipulate data.
- Centralize and maintain your existing engineering data in DriveWorks.
- Minimise errors and ensure data is always up to date.
Customizable documents
Quickly respond to sales inquiries with accurate documents using the DriveWorks Solo quote, covering letter and BOM templates.
- Reduce time spent preparing documents for customer inquiries.
- Build rules to control what is included in your documents.
- Reports provide auditing of document content.
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DriveWorks ROI
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Training and resources
We’re committed to your success. We’ve created help and training resources to help you get the most from DriveWorks Solo and your 30-day free trial.
Training
Join our DriveWorks Solo Getting Started Webinar to learn the first steps to automating with DriveWorks Solo.
DriveWorks Learning Portal
The DriveWorks Learning Portal offers a whole host of free DriveWorks training courses and resources for you to access at any time. Create an account to start learning.
How to videos
Learn how to capture parameters in your SOLIDWORKS models, create input forms and build rules to generate new variations with our How to Videos.
Sample projects
Download and explore complete DriveWorks Solo sample projects. Learn how they are set up and see what’s possible with DriveWorks Solo.
Help file
The DriveWorks Solo online help file has detailed information on all aspects of DriveWorks. Quickly and easily find the answers to your questions whenever you need them.
How to buy DriveWorks
DriveWorks is sold worldwide and supported locally by authorized and certified DriveWorks Resellers, on your time zone.
Software
SOLIDWORKS® design automation and product configurator software.
DriveWorksXpress
DriveWorksXpress entry-level design automation is included free in every seat of SOLIDWORKS®. Upscale to DriveWorks Solo or DriveWorks Pro anytime.
DriveWorks Solo
Powerful SOLIDWORKS® design automation. Download your 30-day free trial of DriveWorks Solo.
DriveWorks Pro
Complete SOLIDWORKS® automation and online 3D CPQ configurator software. Try one of our configurator examples now.