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.
DriveWorks Packages available today from Visiativ
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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”…
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 |
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| 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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