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Get to know the team behind DriveWorks. The DriveWorks team has expanded from our single office 14 years ago, now we’ve filled The Barley Store at our Laskey Farm site and taken on more of the surrounding barns and out-buildings! Of course DriveWorks wouldn’t be such a great place without the people that make up our team. In this […]

For the 13th year in a row we’ll be attending SOLIDWORKS World! We hope to see you in Dallas, you’ll find us at booth #817 in the Partner Pavilion. We’ll also be presenting about Design Automation and Sales Configurators, look out for the dates and times of these demonstrations and workshops, announced on our blog and the SOLIDWORKS World website.

Supporting our Resellers at their SOLIDWORKS 2016 events! Join Us! Throughout October, our Value Added Resellers are hosting events to showcase the latest release of SOLIDWORKS. We’re going to be sponsoring, supporting and attending lots of these events and we hope to see you there! Keep an eye on our events page as we’re always […]

A Case Study of 360Glassware.com. Pine Research Instrumentation are a talented group of chemists and engineers who develop custom laboratory set ups for customers, which often includes glassware and custom electrodes. They’re the brains behind 360Glassware.com and they’ve been using DriveWorks Pro as an Online Sales Configurator to power it. Let’s find out more… The Problem Before using […]

Registration is now open for DriveWorks World 2016. Register now to secure your place at our annual technical focused user event. See you there!

Automating the design of custom windows and doors using DriveWorks. This month we’re focusing on the Architectural Components industry and the benefits of using design automation and sales configurator software in the industry. Origin are using SOLIDWORKS and DriveWorks to design and manufacture custom windows and doors. Origin are the UK’s leading specialist manufacturer of bespoke, doors, windows […]

A vast industry made up of Same but Different products that are perfect for Design Automation. Architectural Components are the unique details and components that, together, form the architectural style of houses, buildings and structures. There are many different products that could be classed as architectural components, such as: • Custom Windows• Beams / Supports• Sky Lights […]

This month we’re focusing on Education. We’re passionate about Design Automation and also believe in the importance of investing in the future of design and manufacturing, so we want to encourage students to use their educational licences of SOLIDWORKS. The use of SOLIDWORKS within education helps to bridge the gap between ideas and technology by helping to prepare […]

We love meeting people who have an interest in technology, who are passionate and keen to learn. This month we’re focusing on the Education Sector and the role that DriveWorks plays when educating our team, customers and resellers. Each year we invest in our team and we recruit several interns to join or Technical, Development and Commercial teams for 12 month […]

This month we’re focusing on the Education Sector. Our Tech Team have created a tutorial in DriveWorks Solo for configuring a bicycle frame that we want to share with schools and colleges throughout the world. The tutorial provides an introduction to using the software, so we decided to test it on our marketing intern Danielle. […]

Learning is really encouraged for our personal development here at DriveWorks and providing training for others is also an essential part of what we do. Last week a few of us benefited from Photoshop training and Maria asked us to think about how it was delivered, the material supplied and compare it to our own DriveWorks Solo and […]

ZCL Composites Inc. have been using DriveWorks Pro for only four months and have already seen some great results. We recently caught up with them to find out how they’ve been using the software… Established in 1987, ZCL Composites Inc. has grown to become North America’s leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of cost-effective fibreglass storage tank systems […]

Industry Spotlight: Transportation Each month we’ll be focusing on a different industry and creating industry specific Design Automation/Configurator Projects for you to use. This month the spotlight is on the Transportation Industry and the types of products included. Our Shipping Container Project uses DriveWorksXpress and has been updated for use with SOLIDWORKS 2015. If you have SOLIDWORKS […]

Our best bake sale yet, all in aid of Cancer Research UK. Despite the rain, Friday’s DriveWorks Charity Bake Sale was even bigger and better than last year. The bake sale was brilliant with lots of our neighbouring companies from our Laskey Farm site supporting the afternoon, along with staff and residents from local care home, Cheshire Grange. Howard and Wendy Platt took […]

Tom DiLaura, from the DriveWorks team at CADimensions, recently caught up with their SOLIDWORKS customer, Riverhawk Company to see what they’ve been up to and find out how they have made the most of the free design automation tool, DriveWorksXpress. Riverhawk Company’s engineers use SOLIDWORKS and have successfully implemented and been working with DriveWorksXpress for the past three years. Josh […]