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Design automation
Powerful SOLIDWORKS® part, assembly, and drawing automation. Start your 30-day free trial today.
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.
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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
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Capture parameters
Capture the parameters you currently change manually in your SOLIDWORKS models, assemblies, and drawings using the DriveWorks Add-in for SOLIDWORKS.
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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.
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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.
Try DriveWorks Solo for free
Get instant access to DriveWorks Solo for 30 days. No credit card required.
DriveWorks design automation features
Powerful features for advanced SOLIDWORKS® design automation
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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
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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
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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®
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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.
- Check-in assemblies, parts, and drawings as they are generated by DriveWorks
- Specify the version DriveWorks uses or get the latest by default
- Delete files and folders from the vault using DriveWorks
Software
SOLIDWORKS® design automation and product configurator software
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