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In DriveWorks Solo you can create intelligent, dynamic forms to aid guided selling and improve user experience. It’s easy to create intelligent, dynamic forms by linking Form Controls together, usign Control Properties to change positions, visbility, values and selections.

We’re really proud to have been presented with the SWUGN Partner of the Year Award at SOLIDWORKS World 2019. We love the SWUGN community and can’t wait to be part of lots more great meetings this year.

The technical sessions at SOLIDWORKS World offer training and learning experiences to expand your skill set and increase your productivity. If you’re looking to improve your productivity, work smarter and improve customer experience, join the DriveWorks design automation and CPQ sessions at SOLIDWORKS World 2019.

We are pleased to announce Ingeniería Samat have joined the DriveWorks Partner Program! Ingeniería Samat offers mechanical engineering services. Their team has more than 20 years of experience using SOLIDWORKS and with many positive testimonials, we’re pleased to have them on board as a DriveWorks Services Partner.

DriveWorks World 2019 is your chance to expand your knowledge with technical training, advanced talks and hands-on sessions. Meet other DriveWorks users, exchange tips, discuss ideas and see what’s new in DriveWorks 17. Spaces are filling up fast, register now to secure your place at DriveWorks World 2019 – April 29th – May 3rd in Chicago, USA.

Join DriveWorks Technical Specialists, Tom and Oliver, for a hands-on DriveWorksXpress training session at SOLIDWORKS World 2019. Discover more about the time-saving Design Automation tool you already have inside SOLIDWORKS.

We hope you have a wonderful festive season and we wish you all the best for the new year. We look forward to seeing you all in 2019 at SOLIDWORKS World and DriveWorks World!

This month the two SOLIDWORKS User Groups (SWUG) in the UK got together for their final meetings of the year. We went along to both of them, meeting fellow users, sponsoring the meetings and presenting too. The first meeting, UK SWUG NW, got together at DriveWorks HQ on December 3rd. Then SWUGN London met at Plexal on December 5th.

The Early Bird Rate for DriveWorks World 2019 ends on December 31st 2018. Don’t miss out on your chance to save up to $300 per person, register now!

SOLIDWORKS World 2019 in Dallas will be DriveWorks’ 16th year at SOLIDWORKS World! The event takes place from 10th – 13th February 2019 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. We’re excited to be a part of the action again – sponsoring, exhibiting, presenting, listening and learning!

Members of the DriveWorks team have taken part in Movember for the past few years. This year though there were more people taking part than ever before so they set themselves an ambitious target of raising £1500! After 30 days of growing the mo’s were looking pretty good, and so was their fundraising – this year, they have raised over £2,000! Well done everyone for raising money for such a great cause and thank you to everyone who helped the team exceed their target by donating and supporting!

The annual Investors in People Awards were held at the iconic Round House in London on November 28th. We’ve been committed to Investors in People for several years. We achieved the Bronze standard in 2014 and Silver in 2017. It was a surprise and honour to be finalists for IIP Silver Employer of the Year.

The SOLIDWORKS User Group based in the North of England, UK SWUG NW are returning to Warrington for the 4th year in a row to host their Christmas meeting. If you use SOLIDWORKS, as a student or as a professional, come along on Monday, December 3rd to learn and network. See you there!

As DriveWorks 16 SP2 was released last week, Mike Loftus, Technical Specialist at DriveWorks caught up with our longest serving member of the team, Ian Yates to get his opinion on the new features in this latest service pack. Ian talks about the updates to 3D in DriveWorks, new information tips, enhanced web service integration and improved pack & go.

Mike Loftus, Technical Specialist at DriveWorks caught up with our longest serving member of the team, Ian Yates to get his opinion on how DriveWorks has changed as a product and as a company, our vast technical documentation, the great enhancements made in DriveWorks 16 and using DriveWorks alongside SOLIDWORKS.