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DriveWorks Solo overview

Use DriveWorks Solo to configure and automate custom products inside SOLIDWORKS.

Quickly and easily create and configure custom products with DriveWorks Solo part, assembly, and drawing automation inside SOLIDWORKS.

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Why DriveWorks Solo?

Quickly and easily create and configure custom products inside SOLIDWORKS.

Eliminate errors

Ensure customers and sales teams configure the ideal solution every time with intelligent rules-based guided selling.

Automate more

Automate repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasks and free up engineers to focus on product innovation and development.

Simple setup

Deliver custom products faster and with greater accuracy, without using complex macros, design tables or code.

DriveWorks Solo features

Powerful SOLIDWORKS automation for parts, assemblies and drawings

Powerful SOLIDWORKS automation

Automate your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies and detailed drawings.

Control dimensions, features, custom properties, advanced feature parameters, instances and file formats
Dynamically replace components
Create a library of components using intelligent file reuse

Advanced drawing control

Save time and boost product quality by automatically creating accurate manufacturing drawings with DriveWorks Solo.

Control sheets, views, annotation text, annotation positions, layers, break lines and custom properties
Generation reports provide a complete audit trail of drawing values
Save drawings out in additional file formats, such as PDF, JPEG, DXF and DWG

Preview results

Preview results as you enter design requirements before you generate final models, drawings and documents.

Preview the effect of your selections as you configure
Quickly try ‘what if’ scenarios to test design requirements
Make informed decisions to and ensure product suitability

File formats and save location

You have full control over the save location and folder structure of files created by DriveWorks Solo. Automatically create any additional file format available in SOLIDWORKS.

You have complete control over file naming, use intelligent file naming to create a library of parts
Save files exactly where you want them
Create any additional file format available in SOLIDWORKS

Custom input forms

DriveWorks Solo has an inbuilt form designer to create user-friendly input forms.

Rules-based form-to-form navigation controls which forms are shown based on selections
Use images to aid the configuration process and provide selection feedback
Control visibility and validation of input controls based on rules

Static tabular data

Add your existing static tabular data into DriveWorks Solo, use it on your forms and within your rules.

DriveWorks Solo includes 60 table functions to manipulate data
Centralize and maintain your existing engineering data in DriveWorks
Minimise errors and ensure data is always up to date

Customizable documents

Quickly respond to sales inquiries with accurate documents using the DriveWorks Solo quote, covering letter and BOM templates.

Reduce time spent preparing documents for customer inquiries
Build rules to control what is included in your documents
Reports provide auditing of document content

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Training and resources

We’re committed to your success. We’ve created help and training resources to help you get the most from DriveWorks Solo and your 30-day free trial.

Webinars

Join our DriveWorks Solo Getting Started Webinar to learn the first steps to automating with DriveWorks Solo.

DriveWorks Learning Portal

The DriveWorks Learning Portal offers a whole host of free DriveWorks training courses and resources for you to access at any time. Create an account to start learning.

How to videos

Learn how to capture parameters in your SOLIDWORKS models, create input forms and build rules to generate new variations with our How to Videos.

Sample projects

Download and explore complete DriveWorks Solo sample projects. Learn how they are set up and see what’s possible with DriveWorks Solo.

Help file

The DriveWorks Solo online help file has detailed information on all aspects of DriveWorks. Quickly and easily find the answers to your questions whenever you need them.

Little Book of Rules

Packed with examples of the rules used to automate designs with DriveWorks and a guide to the syntax you can use. Buy the Little Book of Rules here or tell us what you have achieved with DriveWorks and we’ll send you one for free!

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