DriveWorksXpress
Basic Design Automation for Individuals using SolidWorks
DriveWorksXpress, included with SolidWorks 2010, allows you to capture and re-use the engineering rules needed to specify, design, manufacture and Engineer-to-Order your products.
With DriveWorksXpress you can automate repetitive tasks and automatically generate design and manufacturing outputs required to create new and variant products. You will save time and be able to specify the products whilst maintaining your engineering controls.
DriveWorksXpress Features & Benefits
Automate your designs
Today customers are demanding products that meet their specific needs. As a result we see more and more product options and variants. Automating repetitive design tasks allows companies to generate more product options and variants while using less of their valuable resources.
Knowledge Capture
The expertise and logic used to generate product designs exists in many disparate locations such as in someone's notebook or in the memory of a few key individuals. DriveWorksXpress allows a company to capture this critical information and use it to automatically create future product variants.
Capturing and reusing design information reduces the risk that information will be lost, prevents mistakes, and allows information to be reused by others
Automatic creation of parts, assemblies, and drawings
DriveWorksXpress enables the automatic creation of parts, assemblies, and drawings based on predefined design rules. Once the rules are defined designs can be created again and again and again by filling out a simple form telling the software what product options are desired.
Automatically generating parts, assemblies, and drawings by reusing design information allows a company to leverage initial design overhead.
Comparison with DriveWorks Solo
DriveWorks Solo is the next step for automating SolidWorks, review the table below to see how much more SolidWorks automation can be achieved with DriveWorks Solo.
| SolidWorks Feature | DriveWorksXpress | DriveWorks Solo |
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| Models - Controlling SolidWorks Parts & Assemblies | ||
| Drive dimensions |  |
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| Drive features | |
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| Drive custom properties | |
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| Drive colors | |
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| Drive materials | |
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| Drive textures | |
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| Drive tolerances | |
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| Drive hole wizards | |
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| Drive sheet metal properties | |
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| Drive weldment profiles | |
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| Drive advanced feature properties | |
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| Replace models with known alternatives | |
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| Replace Models with driven alternatives | |
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| Run macros | |
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| Control instances | |
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| Create additional file formats | |
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| Full control over file names | |
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| Full control over file locations | |
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| Drawings - Control SolidWorks Drawings | ||
| Create a drawing for each part & assembly | |
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| Create multiple drawings for each part & assembly | |
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| Control Layers | |
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| Additional file formats | |
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| Re-name sheet | |
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| Delete sheet | |
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| Re-scale sheet | |
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| Export sheet to other file formats | |
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| Delete view | |
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| Re-scale views | |
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| Re-position views | |
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| Control breakline positions | |
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| Drive annotation positions | |
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| Drive annotation text | |
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