DriveWorks Solo

Automation for companies that Engineer-to-Order

DriveWorks Solo provides the means to capture and re-use rules needed to specify, design, manufacture and Engineer-to-Order. With DriveWorks Solo you can automate repetitive tasks and automatically generate sales, design, marketing, and manufacturing outputs required to create new and variant products. You will save time and be able to specify products whilst maintaining your engineering controls.

 

Benefits of DriveWorks Solo

  • Increase the speed, consistency and accuracy of your sales and manufacturing data.
  • Increase the speed and quality of your response to customers.
  • Automate your repetitive design tasks.
  • Generate documentation/outputs automatically e.g. Sales Quotes, BOMs, 3D models, 2D drawings, Cut Lists, DXF’s, and eDrawings.
  • Works inside SolidWorks with a familiar user interface which is easy to learn and use.
  • Manage quality ensuring that results are consistent and accurate. DriveWorks manages the relationships between the specifications and performs relevant calculations to generate the 3D models.

 

How will your company use DriveWorks Solo?

Set up DriveWorks Solo

The principle in DriveWorks is straightforward - Set up your project, automate and run. Decide what you want to control and drive. You can drive Dimensions, Features, Custom Properties, Drawings, Replacement Files & File Formats. You can generate all your manufacturing drawings and data as well as sales quotes and covering letters.

Create a Customizable User Interface

Creating custom forms with dynamic navigation is easy in DriveWorks Solo. There are tools for aligning & displaying controls, and you can include images and messages on your forms to give feedback and guidance when filling out the form.

Build Design Rules using a Wizard

The power of automation lies in the DriveWorks Rules Wizard. The interface is logical and intuitive.Rule Building uses Excel Syntax so that no custom code or programming knowledge is required. Rules are used by DriveWorks to scale 2D drawings, control views, dimension positions, and much more.

Automatically generate your Sales, Marketing, and Manufacturing Data

DriveWorks Solo is a valuable Sales Tool. You can quickly respond to sales enquiries by automatically generating sales quotes, cover letters, compelling images of custom products for use in your marketing material, and all the drawing and BOM data for manufacturing.

 

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DriveWorks

New versions/variants of your design created automatically with DriveWorks Solo

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DriveWorks Solo Configurator Form

Creating custom forms in the SolidWorks Task Pane to specify your products is easy with DriveWorks Solo

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