DriveWorks

Automatically generate accurate design, manufacturing and sales documents and files quickly and easily. From stand-alone seats to company-wide solutions, DriveWorks software can be used to automate your design and sales processes.

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  • Configure and Automate

    Used worldwide by many companies to configure “same but different” products, DriveWorks is proven technology that lets you automate repetitive design tasks. DriveWorks automatically generates accurate design, manufacturing and sales documents and files quickly and easily.

    Whether you’re an engineer looking for a design automation solution for SOLIDWORKS, or a company wanting to provide product configuration and guided selling for your own teams, distributors, dealers and even customers, DriveWorks software is modular and scalable so you can chose products that suit your needs.

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DriveWorks Packages available today from Visiativ

  • Customer Story: Wozair

    Visiativ customer, Wozair, specialise in the design, manufacture, and installation of heavy-duty heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) products.

    Since implementation of DriveWorks, Wozair have automated their SOLIDWORKS design process, reduced the risk of human errors, and are able to get information from their design team to manufacturing faster than ever before.

    Watch the video to find out how DriveWorks has given the Wozair team a “fresh start”…

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Compare DriveWorks Software Features

Controlling SOLIDWORKS 3D & 2D CAD Xpress Solo Pro
Drive Dimensions, Features & Custom Properties
Create a drawing for each part & assembly
Drive Colour, Material & Textures
Drive Advanced Feature Properties (Hole Wizards, Sheet Metal, Weldments)
Drive Instances
Replace Components (with existing or dynamically-driven files)
Create additional model file formats (STEP, STL, PDF, DXF, JPG, etc.)
Full control over new model file names & locations
Control multiple model sets from a single project
Run SOLIDWORKS Model Macros
Generative design – Create new features on the fly (configurations, insert components, mates, etc.)
Create multiple drawings for each part & assembly
Full control over new drawing file names & locations
Create additional drawing file formats (PDF, DXF, DWG, JPG, etc)
Control Drawing Sheets (Re-scale, Rename, Delete)
Control Drawing Views (Re-scale, Re-position, Delete)
Control Annotations (Dimension, Text, Notes, Symbols, etc.)
Control Dimension Positions
Control Custom Properties, Break Lines & Layers
Run SOLIDWORKS Drawing Macros
Run Additional tasks on-the-fly (Auto Balloon, Arrange Dimensions, Rescale & Position Views, etc.)
Document Creation Xpress Solo Pro
Create documents (such as Sales Quotes, Purchase Orders, Bills of Materials, etc.)
Built in document templates
Fully customisable document creation (from Word, Excel, XML, etc.)
Send HTML emails with attachments
Create Additional File Formats (PDF, HTML, TXT, XML, etc.)
Output Generation Xpress Solo Pro
Immediate generation of SOLIDWORKS models and drawings
Real Time Preview (On Demand) – updates model while specifying
Manual release of generation queue – allows multiple specifications to have their models generated from a queue
Automatic generation – unattended generation of outputs
Load balancing – distributes output generation over multiple machines
Priority processing – Change the order that outputs are created based on rules
Output Tagging – Generate outputs on targeted machines or in specific locations
User Interface Design Xpress Solo Pro
Automatic Form designer
Expert Form Designer (Resolution and Control Guides, Control Grouping, Control Property Grid, etc.)
Multiple form creation with dynamic navigation
Basic Form Controls (Text Box, Numeric Text Box, Drop Down, Spin Button, Check Box)
Enhanced Form Controls (Hyperlink, Label, List Box, Option Group, Picture Box, Slider)
Advanced Form Controls (3D Preview, Child Specification List, Data Table, Date Picker, Frame Control, Macro Button, Upload Control, etc.)
Dynamic options for list controls
Dynamic control of Enable and Visible properties of form controls
Dynamic control over fonts and colors
Static validation and validation messages
Dynamic validation and validation messages
Copy and paste form controls
Re-skin controls
Support for responsive forms (allows re-positioning of controls when used on screens of different sizes)
Project hierarchy (run a specification inside a specification to any level (For example a contract with multiple configurable line items)
Working with Data and Rules Xpress Solo Pro
Use tabular data to calculate rules
Copy/Paste Excel data
Create internal data tables
Use dynamic data from ODBC Data sources in rules (SAP, Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer, etc.)
Export data to ODBC data sources (for example SAP, Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer)
Pull and Push data dynamically to and from SQL Server Databases using SQL or Windows authentication
Create Group Level Tabular data for use across an entire implementation
Create Calculation tables where each cell can be calculated from other cells
Create Rollup data tables – where information such a price or BOM Quantities is rolled up through the project hierarchy
Web Service integration – communicate with any web service OR use DriveWorks as a web service
Over 250 engineering, mathematic and scientific functions
Over 50 vector (3D), database and PDM functions
Rules builder with function wizard and rule insight (rule breakdown and drill down, function assistance, syntax highlighting and function helper text)
Reusable rules (Variables)
Pervasive search/filtering capabilities
Maintainability, Reporting and Diagnostics Xpress Solo Pro
Rules commentary & revisioning
Reporting on model generation success/failure
Reporting on specification process success or failure
Real time testing during form design
Rules analysis and breakdown
“What-if” scenarios (Specification Test Mode)
Interactive step through of model generation
Rule Profiling (rule specific error debugging, performance solving and insight features)
Scalability Xpress Solo Pro
Import DriveWorksXpress Projects
Import DriveWorks Solo Projects
Underlying database – Microsoft SQL Server
Security – Users and Teams
Security – Active Directory compatibility
Granular permissions
Zero-Conversion web access
Unattended model generation
Standalone user seats
Fully customisable workflow – (who, what and when)
Built in Apps providing ready to run functionality: Dashboard – Link to Projects, access KPI’s CPQ – Full Configure, Price, Quote solution Scheduler – Apply tasks to run on a schedule
Automatic processing of external data
Fully documented API with Software Development Kit
Plugins
Integration Xpress Solo Pro
SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional (Automatic check-in of models, drawings and documents)
Salesforce
3rd party system Integration through file import/export
3rd party system Integration through SQL\ ODBC connections
3rd party system Integration through web services
3rd party system Integration through fully documented Application programming Interface
Online Configurator and DriveWorks 3D Xpress Solo Pro
Direct web access through the application
Run as a service through Internet Information Services (IIS)
Application Mode – replicate desktop running directly on the web
Web Theme with basic re-skinning
Choice of fully responsive skins
Integration Theme with Web API enabling full integration with existing websites
Session Management – control license usage over the Internet
Image gallery – display image files as they are created
Configurable 3D in a browser
Virtual Reality support
Real-time 3D text support
Create visually realistic appearances with Physically Based Rendering (PBR)
Server side rendering of web optimised DriveWorks 3D files
Image fall back mode when no WebGL on client machine
Model click interaction
Transparent image support

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