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Manufacturers using DriveWorks rules-based software are embracing digital transformation to improve customer experiences and make selling custom products quicker, easier and more profitable. Explore our sample HVAC configurator to see how you can use DriveWorks to create an interactive online configurator.

Don’t miss the New Feature Focus Tech Talks series. In these sessions, our technical experts will put a spotlight on the new features and functionality added to our latest release, DriveWorks 21. Delving further into the new features, what they are, why we added them, and how you can use them. Find out more and register.

There are so many opportunities to pursue careers in engineering, to be at the forefront of tackling society’s big challenges and to fill the vital gaps and skills shortages. We have compiled a list of our top tips and tricks to help you gain the skills the industry needs.

DriveWorks Drivers aims to connect DriveWorks Users from around the world, featuring guest speakers sharing experiences and encouraging questions and dialogue about the technology. The next meetings will be celebrating 3 years of DriveWorks Drivers. Join us on Thursday, 7th December at 3pm NZDT and 3pm GMT.

Our product configurator examples are a great way to see what’s possible with DriveWorks, in a range of scenarios and industries. See just how versatile and customizable DriveWorks is by exploring our range of product configurators at driveworkslive.com.

Over the coming months, the DriveWorks team are heading out on the road. We’ll be spending time visiting resellers, and attending their customer appreciation and SOLIDWORKS 2024 launch events. We’re looking forward to showcasing our design automation and CPQ for Manufacturing software, catching up with our community, and keeping our own knowledge up to date. See you soon at an event near you!

DriveWorks is scalable and incredibly versatile, used by manufacturing companies from a range of industries. We’re always interested to hear the different ways our customers use the software we’re proud of, regularly posting customer case studies on our blog. Here’s what some of our customers have to say about us.

We’ve created learning resources to help you get started quickly with DriveWorks Solo so you can make the most of your 30 Day Free Trial and give yourself a head start. Use DriveWorks Solo to automate your SOLIDWORKS designs, save time, reduce errors, improve quality, and streamline processes.

Join us for the next DriveWorks Drivers virtual networking meeting on Thursday 7th December. DriveWorks Drivers is held at two different times to suit most timezones – 3pm (NZDT) and 3pm (GMT). This is a virtual networking event so you can join from anywhere. Register now to join us, see you there!

Our product configurator examples are a great way to see what’s possible with DriveWorks, in a range of scenarios and industries. Once you’ve explored how DriveWorks looks from the front end, take a look under the hood at the underlying technology inside DriveWorks to understand how you can set up your own Design Automation & CPQ solution.

Paul Gimbel, DriveWorks Sherpa, has announced the next DriveWorks Challenge brief! This one is a bit different from the first two challenges as it focuses on the back end of a DriveWorks Project instead of the user interface. Get your submissions in before Tuesday 31st October to be entered into the prize draw!

DriveWorksXpress is the time-saving Design Automation tool, free inside every licence of SOLIDWORKS®. It’s ideal for configuring designs that are the Same but Different. Automate to save time, reduce errors and innovate more. Activate your free license of DriveWorksXpress in the SOLIDWORKS® Tools Menu.

Use DriveWorks software to build a design automation and custom CPQ configurator solution to suit your business needs. All DriveWorks products are scalable. Any design automation project you create using DriveWorksXpress can be seamlessly migrated to DriveWorks Solo or DriveWorks Pro. Add extra capabilities to your projects as and when you need them.

Capture and reuse design knowledge to automatically create the documents and data required to sell and manufacture custom products. Design automation enables you to turn around proposals quickly, design and manufacture efficiently and deliver on your promises consistently, all whilst maintaining a healthy profit.

As each new DriveWorks version gets closer to release, we all use the new functionality as part of our testing and QA process. Here. Phil Gilbanks, DriveWorks Key Account Manager. shares how he has learnt about, tested and used the new Forms Technology and User Experience capabilities in DriveWorks 21 and improved one of our existing configurator examples.