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Cubis Systems, headquartered in Northern Ireland is the global leader in Composite Access Chambers and Cable Protection Systems. The company exports to over 30 countries worldwide from operations in 7 manufacturing sites in the UK, Ireland and Australia. Cubis Systems purchased DriveWorks after identifying a growing demand for bespoke products and solutions. In responding to this market opportunity, Cubis also wanted to enhance the customer experience by including accurate visuals and sales drawings for these custom orders.

In this blog, we’re using one of the examples and following the quick and easy steps to configure a custom canopy online. We will work through a few quick and easy steps in this custom configurator to design the canopy. By utilizing Interactive DriveWorks Form Controls we will be able to make changes to the design of the canopy easily. We soon see how easy it is to design this product in DriveWorks and get a full set of engineering drawings when our configuration is complete, and order submitted. The DriveWorks Live website has many examples showing the latest DriveWorks…

In 2020, we hosted the very first meeting of DriveWorks Drivers. We had so much fun, and it was so successful that we’ve hosted 2 meetings since, and they seem to be getting better and better each time. In June we hosted the 3rd DriveWorks Drivers meeting and welcomed our customers, resellers, and partners together to share technical knowledge as well as practical experience. Find out what we got up to!

As a global software development company, we are delighted to welcome experienced senior business leader, Sharon Baylay as Non-Executive Chair. Sharon’s appointment follows investment earlier this year by BGF, the UK’s most active growth capital investor. Sharon’s experience spans 30 years in and around technology.

We recently caught up with Star City SWUG. Leader, Brad Meador It was a pleasure speaking to Brad to learn more about his role at Altec and how he Started the Star City SWUG. In this second part of the interview with Brad we will be speaking more about Start City SWUG, getting students involved in SOLIDWORKS, and his time at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2021.

The 23rd of June marks an important day for celebrating women in engineering. Thanks to the Women’s Engineering Society, today is recognised as “International Women in Engineering Day”, a day dedicated to celebrating the achievements of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and encouraging young women to pursue STEM career paths.

In addition to the virtual SOLIDWORKS User Group meetings, we wanted to take this opportunity to share with you some free online technical resources available for you to use or share with your SOLIDWORKS User Group members.

We recently caught up with Star City SWUG. Leader, Brad Meador It was a pleasure speaking to Brad to learn more about his role at Altec and how he Started the Star City SWUG. Stay tuned for Part 2 of our interview with Brad where we will be speaking more about Start City SWUG, getting students involved in SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE World 2021.

Monmouth Scientific specialise in Filtration and Ducted Fume Cabinets installations. Monmouth Scientific’s end goal with DriveWorks was to have a clean room configurator that would enable the customer, assisted by the sales team, to design their own bespoke clean room. Introducing the 3D configurator has saved both the sales team and design team a lot of time in the design-to-order process. Now they can have a 3D image for every quote and they can interactively work through the layout with the client.

We have been busy catching up with lots of different people from all corners of the SOLIDWORKS Community over the past few months. It’s been great to learn more about the different career paths that have led members of the community to being such a key part of the network. Catch up on any blogs you may have missed.

After what has been a surreal year, we are excited to start welcoming our team back to DriveWorks HQ. Some of the DriveWorks team are already back in the office, but we’re returning in stages to keep each other safe. We’ve been working to make sure our offices are a safe and secure place for everyone.

DriveWorks Drivers aims to connect DriveWorks Users from around the world, invite guest speakers to share experiences and encourage questions and dialogue about the technology. Sharing technical know-how and practical experience informally with each other is something we know many people using DriveWorks like to do. We will be hosting the next meetings on Thursday, 17th June at 3pm and 9pm (BST) so feel free to join us at whichever time suits you best! Here’s what you can expect from the next meeting.

During virtual DriveWorks World, we heard from a variety of companies who are using DriveWorks. Many people shared their experience and the many different ways they use DriveWorks. We had a chance to speak Sean Borchert, Mechanical Engineer at Masterflex®. After meeting Sean and learning more about him, we invited Sean to share his story as to how DriveWorks has played a role in his professional career.

As part of the new DriveWorks Community, we have created an entirely new DriveWorks Learning Portal. The Learning Portal offers a whole host of DriveWorks training courses and resources for you to access at any time. We’ve now made the technical learning sessions created for DriveWorks World 2021 available to all DriveWorks Pro Customers with an active subscription, DriveWorks resellers and partners.

We recently caught up with Eric where he shared with us a bit more about his background, his education and how he started the Seattle Area SOLIDWORKS Power User Group. In part two, Eric talks more about his times at SOLIDWORKS World/3DEXPERIENCE World, his favourite thing about the SOLIDWORKS Community and what he sees for the future of SOLIDWORKS User Group Meetings.