DriveWorks
$10,000.00
DriveWorks software is used for Design Automation and Sales Configuration by companies. Whether you are an engineer that needs Design Automation to automate your SOLIDWORKS models, Product Configurator and Guided Selling.
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DriveWorksXpress is ideal for everyday repetitive design tasks. Use it to create multiple variations of SOLIDWORKS Parts, Assemblies and Drawings quickly and accurately. Save time, reduce repetitive tasks and minimise costly errors.
Featured Capabilities
Design Automation with DriveWorksXpress is easy | Capture and re-use your design knowledge |
Drive SOLIDWORKS Model geometry (Part and Assembly Dimensions, Features and Custom Properties) | |
Create an input form to enter your requirements | |
Use rules to link the values on your form to files to be generated | |
Run – Generate your new SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Part, Assembly and Drawing files |

Setup and use DriveWorks Solo in the engineering department to generate the 3D Designs, detailed manufacturing drawings & quotes for each new order-specific design. Enter new dimensions or order specific details into your own custom forms inside SOLIDWORKS for each variation required. The output is all the information required to manufacture and market product variants.
Featured Capabilities
Quickly and easily create and configure custom products | Generate your SOLIDWORKS Parts, preview and generate quotes to help you respond quickly to enquiries from your sales team. |
Harnesses the power of SOLIDWORKS so you can preview the effect of your selections and see the changes to your design before finalizing your design. | |
Design your own forms, to help you configure valid permutations. You can even add your own rules-based form-to-form navigation to help you move quickly through the forms depending on what options you need to select. | |
Let you copy information and then save it in Solo so that that data can be re-used in your project on the forms and as you build the rules for your custom designs. | |
Linking the values entered on your DriveWorks forms to the rules and data inside DriveWorks Solo, you can provide a fast response to sales enquiries from your sales colleagues and customers. |

It is ideal for ANY business involved in order-specific designs. DriveWorks will generate Manufacturing Drawings, 3D Models and Sales Documents accurately and automatically.
Featured Capabilities
Use DriveWorks locally or on the web | Easily automated with the DriveWorks Pro add-in software. You decide what you want sales people and customers to be able to configure and create, such as Dimensions, Features, Custom Properties and Drawings. |
Improve your sales and marketing with a custom Online Product Configurator. Reduce the time it takes to respond to customer enquiries and will help you win more business fast. | |
Provide Product Configuration and Guided Selling for your own teams, Distributors and Dealers, DriveWorks software is modular and scalable so you can set up and use the products to your advantage and at your own pace. | |
Incorporates its own Form Designer making it very easy to create great looking forms and interfaces for entering product requirements. | |
create Documents such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, or HTML files for use as Quotations, Covering letters, Delivery Notes, BOMs, etc. Whenever a SolidWorks Part, Assembly, or Drawing is generated, DriveWorks can also save the model or drawing in a variety of other formats, for example, eDrawings, DXFs, PDF and so on. |
Product Comparison Matrix | DriveWorks Xpress | DriveWorks Solo | DriveWorks Pro1 |
Operating Systems | |||
Windows 7 SP1 support | |||
Windows 8.1 support | |||
Windows 10 support | |||
Models – Controlling SOLIDWORKS Parts and Assemblies | |||
Drive dimensions | |||
Drive features | |||
Drive custom properties | |||
Full control over file names | |||
Drive colors | |||
Drive materials | |||
Drive textures | |||
Drive tolerances | |||
Drive hole wizards | |||
Drive sheet metal properties | |||
Drive weldment profiles | |||
Drive advanced feature properties | |||
Replace models with known alternatives | |||
Replace Models with driven alternatives | |||
Control instances | |||
Create additional file formats | |||
Full control over file locations | |||
Control multiple sets of models in a single project | |||
Automatic check in to EPDM | |||
Run macros | |||
Run pre and post drive generation tasks to: | |||
Insert components on the fly | |||
Create, delete or switch configurations | |||
Mate components | |||
Create images | |||
Much more | |||
Drawings – Controlling SOLIDWORKS Drawings | |||
Create a drawing for each part and assembly | |||
Create multiple drawings for each part assembly | |||
Control Layers | |||
Additional file formats | |||
Re-name sheet | |||
Delete sheet | |||
Re-scale sheet | |||
Export sheet to other file formats | |||
Delete view | |||
Re-scale views | |||
Re-position views | |||
Control breakline positions | |||
Drive annotation positions | |||
Drive annotation text | |||
Drive geometric tolerances | |||
Drive weld symbols | |||
Run drawing specific macros | |||
Run pre and post drive generation tasks to: | |||
Auto arrange dimensions | |||
Auto balloon assembly views | |||
Rescale and position views | |||
Hide or Delete dangling dimensions | |||
Much more | |||
Full control over file names | |||
Full control over file locations | |||
Method of Model Generation | |||
Immediate generation | |||
Preview generation (On Demand) | 2 | ||
Queued and automatic | |||
Working with and Generating Documents | |||
Built in templates | |||
Microsoft Word | |||
Microsoft Excel | |||
XML | |||
Email with attachments5 | |||
Working with Data (including External Data) | |||
Copy and paste Excel data | |||
Create internal data tables | |||
Consume live data from ODBC Data sources (e.g. SAP, Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer) | |||
Export data to ODBC data sources (e.g. SAP, Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer) | |||
Connection directly to SQL Server Databases | |||
Create Group data tables | |||
Rollup data tables – automatically sync information from child specifications. | |||
Create Calculation tables | |||
Web Service integration – bi-directional communication with websites | |||
User Interface and Form Controls | |||
Text boxes | |||
Numeric text boxes | |||
Spin buttons | |||
Check boxes | |||
Combo boxes | |||
Full Form Designer | |||
Picture boxes with dynamic pictures | |||
List box | |||
Option group | |||
Labels | |||
Slider | |||
Hyperlink | |||
Measurement text boxes | |||
Macro Button | |||
Data Grid | |||
Data Table | |||
Date Picker | |||
Dialog Button | |||
Child Specification List | |||
3D Preview Box | |||
Item List | |||
Option Button | |||
Frame Control | |||
Upload Control | |||
Web Frame Control | |||
Basic Form designer | |||
Advanced Form designer | |||
Static validation and validation messages | |||
Dynamic validation and validation messages | |||
Dynamic options for list controls | |||
Dynamic enabling/disabling of controls | |||
Dynamic control visibility | |||
Dynamic control over fonts | |||
Dynamic control over colors | |||
Re-skin controls | |||
Multiple forms with dynamic navigation | |||
Support for responsive forms | |||
Copy/paste form controls | |||
Web | |||
Application Mode4 | |||
Web theme templates4 | |||
Drag and drop customizable modules4 | |||
Advanced customization4 | |||
Image gallery – display image files as they are created4 | |||
DriveWorks 3D | |||
Server side rendering of web optimized 3D files | |||
Image fallback for no WebGL | |||
Model click interaction | |||
Full support for transparent appearances | |||
Multi-browser and device support | |||
Scalability/ Deployment | |||
Underlying database – Microsoft SQL Server | |||
Users3 | |||
Teams of users | |||
Granular permissions | |||
Upscale for web access4 | |||
Unattended model generation5 | |||
Full load balancing support5* | |||
Targeted processing with Tags5* | |||
Standalone user seats6 | |||
Specification Flow | |||
Automatic processing of external data5 | |||
General | |||
Reusable rules (Variables) | |||
Pervasive search/filtering capabilities | |||
Plugins | |||
Project hierarchy (sub-projects/multi-line entries) | |||
Integration with Product Data Management (PDM) | |||
Checkin models | |||
Checkin drawings | |||
Checkin documents | |||
Maintainability | |||
Rules commentary | |||
Rules revisioning | |||
Reporting and Diagnostics | |||
Reporting | |||
What-if scenarios (Test specification) | |||
Model Insight – Step through generation with full commentary | |||
Working with Rules | |||
Over 240 engineering, mathematic and scientific functions | |||
Rules builder | |||
Rules analysis and breakdown | |||
Search and Find/Replace rules | |||
Specification Test Mode |
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