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Heather recently had a coffee and a catch-up with Colorado SOLIDWORKS User Group Leader, Dan Riffell. Dan shared his previous work in mechanical engineering and how it played a role in leading him to become the Associate Professor of Practice at University of Colorado in Boulder.

Instead of focusing on how to use our site, we want our users focusing on the product that they are configuring. In this blog, Paul Gimbel looks at the importance of UX when designing your product configurator.

As a country, we now welcome a new King, King Charles III. His coronation will be on Saturday 6th May, with royal festivities taking place all weekend. This includes a public bank holiday in the UK on Monday 8th May. Our offices will be closed this Monday as we take the time to reflect on our late Queen Elizabeth II and the celebration of our new King.

IMA PG is a leading pioneer in packaging solutions in India. Using DriveWorks, they have reduced their design time from 4 days to just 1 day. Costly manufacturing errors have also been reduced significantly, and IMA PG is now at 80% drawing accuracy across its product line. Find out how IMA PG is using DriveWorks to optimize its processes.

We’ve added a new course to the DriveWorks Learning Portal, exclusively for DriveWorks Pro customers with active subscription, resellers and partners. This course was recorded as part of a Tech Talks live technical webinar broadcast. Find out what features and functionality were added in DriveWorks 18, DriveWorks 19 and DriveWorks 20 ahead of the upcoming release of DriveWorks 21.

There’s a common misconception that you have to automate everything or nothing at all. This often makes automation look like a big, scary task and prevents a lot of people from putting DriveWorks into production. In this blog, DriveWorks Sherpa, Paul Gimbel gives his advice on why you shouldn’t aim for 100% automation.

As our team grows at DriveWorks, our space onsite at DriveWorks HQ is growing too. We’re committed to creating a space that is enjoyed by our team and by our visitors. These new spaces provide more opportunities for us to learn, collaborate and invite visitors to join us for training.

HSI has been using DriveWorks since 2017, to automate the design process of their cranes. They wanted to create a customer-facing online tool, and saw DriveWorks as a a great solution. Used by customers and sales teams within the company, HSI are generating quotes faster and improving service with DriveWorks.

DriveWorks World brings together our users to learn, share knowledge and network. This year over 950 resellers, customers and partners joined us from around the world – thank you for joining us and joining in! Read some of the stats from this year’s event and watch some highlights and behind the scenes action.

The ability to configure, price, and quote easily are essential for manufacturing companies of all sizes and across all industries to cost-effectively offer configurable products. Discover how DriveWorks software enables you to build and manage your custom configure, price, and quote solution faster and more accurately.

Use DriveWorks to build your design automation and CPQ solution. DriveWorks is ideal for manufacturers who design and sell the same but different products. All DriveWorks products are scalable – any project you create using DriveWorksXpress can be seamlessly migrated to DriveWorks Solo or DriveWorks Pro. Learn more about DriveWorks software.

In the current climate, companies are looking for ways to do more with less, and technology is helping to do just that. Digital transformation results in fewer errors, a more productive workforce, reduced overhead costs, and more opportunities to make improvements. It allows mundane tasks to be automated, speeding up processes and increasing throughout.

DriveApps help you get started with DriveWorks faster by providing out-of-the-box functionality. Learn more about DriveApps and how can get started in this technical article by DriveWorks Sherpa, Paul Gimbel.

Last year we launched a new format for sharing technical knowledge in the form of Tech Talks. Tech Talks combines the most popular and most valuable features of other events. It puts a focus on DriveWorks technology and takes a deep dive into specific topics. After a short break, Tech Talks is returning. The next Tech Talks session will be a webinar on Thursday, 20th April at 3pm. Find out more and register to attend.

DriveWorks Drivers aims to connect DriveWorks Users from around the world, featuring the latest news from the DriveWorks team, detailed presentations, and encouraging questions and dialogue about the technology. We will be hosting the next meetings on Thursday, 8th June at 3 pm and 9 pm (BST) so please join us at whichever time suits you best!