Design automation for SOLIDWORKS®

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Design automation for SOLIDWORKS^®

Capture and reuse design, manufacturing, and cost estimation knowledge to deliver custom products faster and with greater accuracy, without using complex macros, design tables, or configurations

Eliminate errors

DriveWorks rules-based SOLIDWORKS® automation eliminates errors and time-consuming design changes.

Save time and innovate more

Automating repetitive, time-consuming SOLIDWORKS tasks frees teams to focus on increasing throughput, solving custom design challenges, and improving existing products and processes.

SOLIDWORKS® Gold Partner

DriveWorks has been automating SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD since 2001 and first became a SOLIDWORKS Certified Gold Partner in 2002.

How does SOLIDWORKS design automation work?

Setup once then run your DriveWorks configurator over and over again

Capture parameters

Capture the parameters you currently change manually in your SOLIDWORKS models, assemblies, and drawings using the DriveWorks Add-in for SOLIDWORKS.

Build rules and logic

Enter your engineering knowledge into custom rules to automatically control and update the captured parameters using the intelligent DriveWorks Rules Builder.

Run project

Run your DriveWorks project over and over again. Enter order-specific design requirements and automatically generate new SOLIDWORKS models, assemblies, drawings, and BOMs, based on your rules.

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DriveWorks design automation features

Powerful features for advanced SOLIDWORKS® design automation

Advanced SOLIDWORKS drawing automation

Save time and boost product quality by automatically creating accurate SOLIDWORKS manufacturing drawings.

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, DWF, and DWG

Master SOLIDWORKS files

DriveWorks creates new copies of your master SOLIDWORKS® files and all changes are made to these files, which are saved into new locations based on your rules.

Your master files are never modified or overwritten
No risk of master data becoming corrupt
Drawing references are always correct based on your rules

Replacement components

Automatically replace components in your SOLIDWORKS® assemblies based on rules created in DriveWorks. Use static parts from a library or dynamic replacements pre-driven by DriveWorks.

Unlimited number of replacements
Keep master models simple
Add new replacement options easily

Rules-based file naming

Control if DriveWorks creates new SOLIDWORKS® files or re-uses existing ones using rules.

Use intelligent file naming to build a library of components
Save generation time by using previously created models
Quickly propagate design changes

Generation tasks

Apply specific tasks to run during the creation of your new SOLIDWORKS® models, assemblies, and drawings for complete control over how your new model is created.

Toolbox of over 30 Generation Tasks
Granular control of SOLIDWORKS automation
Generative modeling with task looping

File formats and save location

You have full control over the save location and folder structure of files created by DriveWorks. 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®

SOLIDWORKS® PDM Professional

DriveWorks integrates with SOLIDWORKS® PDM Professional. Generated models, assemblies, and drawings, as well as any additional file formats that have been created, can be automatically checked into the vault.