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DriveWorks 12 – Available Now!

We are really excited to announce the release of DriveWorks 12!

DriveWorks 12 includes enhancements and new features aimed at making DriveWorks easier and more obvious to use.

Adding new capabilities helps our customers to create a great online experience for their users and customers, as well as enhancing the design automation experience.

Many of the enhancements in DriveWorks 12 are customer suggestions. Thank you to everyone that has submitted requests & suggestions to suggest@driveworks.co.uk.

This release focuses on the following themes:
– Improved Model Generation and Specification Diagnostics
– Enhanced forms capabilities, especially when working with Drive3D files
– A focus on tabular data, with 2 new table types and 24 new table functions
– Improved specification experience
– General usability enhancements

The Online Help Files have been updated for DriveWorks 12 and should give you everything you need to get started with this latest release.

DriveWorks Solo Online Help File

DriveWorks Pro Online Help File

We will also be hosting three 30 minute Tech Team Thursday Webinars detailing What’s New in DriveWorks 12 on 9th, 16th and 23rd of April.

Sign up for them on our Events Page.

You can download DriveWorks 12 now from the Software Page of the DriveWorks Community.

We are really excited about DriveWorks 12 and hope you enjoy using it!

Here are some things to remember when downloading DriveWorks 12:

As ever we have tested the updates rigorously across SolidWorks and Windows Operating Systems to maintain reliability.

The download should take no more than 30 minutes.

As with any upgrade, remember to take a back up of your data!

If you are working in a multi-user environment make sure you upgrade all of the DriveWorks Modules e.g. DriveWorks Administrator, Autopilot, any DriveWorks User licenses, DriveWorks Live AND of course DriveWorks Pro Server.

Make sure you have your DriveWorks 12 license keys to hand.

You will find Release Notes in PDF format in the DriveWorks Community.