DriveWorksXpress
Produce new versions of your SOLIDWORKS parts, assemblies, and drawings in a matter of minutes.
- One-Time Setup – Configure once and use repeatedly. Configurations, design tables, or macros are not necessary.
- Save Time & Innovate More – Save time by automating repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasks and focusing on product development.
- Eliminate Errors – DriveWorksXpress reduces errors and time-consuming, expensive design changes through its rules-based approach.
You can upgrade to DriveWorks Solo or DriveWorks Pro at any time.
DriveWorksXpress is already included with SOLIDWORKS. Simply activate it from the SOLIDWORKS tools menu.
Features of DriveWorksXpress
Automate SOLIDWORKS
- Configure dimensions, features, custom properties, and switches
- Associate drawings with driven models to update them
- Easily add and update captured parameters
Input Forms
- Validate inputs and show requirements
- Drop-down lists, spin buttons, check boxes, text boxes, and numeric text boxes can be added
- Input form default values and control order can be set
Rules Builder
- Using logical statements and mathematical formulas, define your design knowledge
- Use standard Excel functions
- Component libraries can be built using intelligent file naming
DriveWorks Solo
Customize SOLIDWORKS products quickly and easily
- Eliminate Errors – Reduce costly, time-consuming design changes with DriveWorks rules-based automation.
- Save Time & Innovate More – Free up engineers to focus on product innovation and development by automating repetitive SOLIDWORKS tasks.
- Easy to Setup, Maintain & Use – Create custom products faster and more accurately without the need for complex macros, design tables, or coding.
Features of DriveWorks Solo
Powerful SOLIDWORKS Automation
- Control dimensions, features, custom properties, advanced feature parameters, instances, and file formats
- Dynamically replace components
- Create a library of components using intelligent file reuse
Advanced Drawing Control
- Control sheets, views, annotation text, annotation positions, layers, break lines, and custom properties
- Generation reports provide a complete audit trail of drawing values
- Save drawings in additional file formats, such as PDF, JPEG, DWF, and DWG
Preview Results
- Preview the effect of your selections as you configure
- Quickly try ‘what if’ scenarios to test design requirements
- Make informed decisions and ensure product suitability
File Formats & Save Location
- You have complete control over file naming, use intelligent file naming to create a library of parts
- Save files exactly where you want them
- Create any additional file format available in SOLIDWORKS
Custom Input Forms
- Rules-based form-to-form navigation controls which forms are shown based on selections
- Use images to aid the configuration process and provide selection feedback
- Control visibility and validation of input controls based on rules
Static Tabular Data
- DriveWorks Solo includes 60 table functions to manipulate data
- Centralize and maintain your existing engineering data in DriveWorks
- Minimize errors and ensure data is always up to date
Customizable Documents
- Reduce time preparing documents for customer inquiries
- Build rules to control whats included in your documents
- Reports provide auditing of document content
DriveWorks Pro
Complete SOLIDWORKS automation and online 3D CPQ configurator software. Modular and scalable – build a solution that suits you.
Connect sales and manufacturing to deliver custom products faster and eliminate errors
- Intelligent Guided Selling – Ensure customers and sales teams configure the ideal solution every time with intelligent rules-based guided selling.
- Any Device, Anywhere – Enable customers and sales teams to configure custom products on any device with DriveWorks Live.
- Integrate with Other Systems – DriveWorks Pro integrates seamlessly with company systems, helping you work more efficiently and effectively.
- Connect Sales & Manufacturing – Validation ensures you only offer products that can be manufactured, eliminating errors and boosting quality.
- Eliminate Errors & Repetitive Tasks – DriveWorks SOLIDWORKS automation eliminates errors and expensive, time-consuming design changes.
- Easy to Setup, Maintain & Use – Deliver custom products faster and more accurately without using complex macros, design tables, or code.
Features of DriveWorks Pro
Complete SOLIDWORKS Automation
- Complete SOLIDWORKS automation using Generation Tasks
- Automate SOLIDWORKS PDM, SOLIDWORKS MBD, and SOLIDWORKS CAM
- Full control over drawings, BOMs, and manufacturing documents
Online Visual Sales Configurator
- Optimized for all modern browsers and devices
- Simple to add to your website
- Control users and security
Interactive 3D
- Communicate complex designs easily using interactive 3D
- Import existing 3D models and geometry. DriveWorks supports files in .stl, .obj, .gltf, .glb, .iam, .ipt, .par, .psm, and .asm formats.
- View products in immersive Virtual Reality (VR)
Integrate with Other Company Systems
- Query data from your CRM directly
- Pass data to other company systems
- Dedicated SOLIDWORKS PDM integration
Intelligent Workflow
- Boost quality by adding approval steps and sign-off permissions for teams
- Create documents and SOLIDWORKS files at the right time
- Manage order progress and automatically send status updates
Automatically Generate Documents
- Create Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, HTML, XML, and text files
- Automatically send emails with generated documents and approval drawings attached
- Create BOMs, cut lists, and supporting documents for manufacturing
Dynamic Data
- Query SQL databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL
- Import data from Excel, XML, and text files
- Request live data, such as shipping rates and material costs, using HTTP requests
Scalable & Cloud Ready
- Support for Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud
- Modern web API provides data and UI integration on any device
- Flexible DriveWorks Live licensing to cover peaks in usage
Compare DriveWorks' Packages to Fit Your Business
Driveworks Xpress |
Driveworks Solo |
Driveworks Pro |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| CAD - CONTROLLING SOLIDWORKS 3D MODELS AND 2D DRAWINGS | |||
| Drive Dimensions, Features and Custom Properties | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Drive Color, Material, Textures, and Advanced Feature Properties | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Drive Instances and Replace Components (with existing files or dynamically driven files) |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Create additional model file formats (STEP, STL, PDF, DXF, JPEG, etc.) | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Full control over new model file names and locations | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Run SOLIDWORKS Macros | ✔ | ||
| Generative design – create new features on the fly (configurations, insert components, mates, etc.) | ✔ | ||
| Create a drawing for each part and assembly | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Create multiple drawings for each part and assembly | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Create additional drawing file formats (PDF, DXF, DWG, JPEG, etc.) | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Control Drawing Sheets, Views, Annotations, and Layers | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Run additional tasks on the fly (Auto Balloon, Arrange Dimensions, Rescale and Position Views, etc.) | ✔ |
| Driveworks Xpress | Driveworks Solo | Driveworks Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOCUMENT CREATION | |||
| Create XML Based Documents | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Fully customizable document creation (from Word, Excel, XML, etc.) | ✔ | ||
| Send HTML emails with attachments | ✔ |
| Driveworks Xpress | Driveworks Solo | Driveworks Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| OUTPUT GENERATION | |||
| Immediate generation of SOLIDWORKS models and drawings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Real Time Preview (On Demand) – updates model while specifying | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Automatic generation – unattended generation of outputs | ✔ |
| Driveworks Xpress | Driveworks Solo | Driveworks Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| USER INTERFACE DESIGN | |||
| 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.) |
✔ | ||
| Multiple form creation with dynamic navigation | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Support for responsive forms (allows re-positioning of controls when used on screens of different sizes) |
✔ | ✔ |
| Driveworks Xpress | Driveworks Solo | Driveworks Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WORKING WITH DATA AND RULES | |||
| Use tabular data to calculate rules | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Create internal data tables | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Use dynamic data from ODBC Data sources in rules (SAP, Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer, etc.) |
✔ | ||
| Pull and Push data dynamically to and from SQL Server Databases using SQL or Windows authentication |
✔ | ||
| Web Service integration – communicate with any web service OR use DriveWorks as a web service |
✔ |
| Driveworks Xpress | Driveworks Solo | Driveworks Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| INTEGRATION | |||
| SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional (Automatic check-in of models, drawings and documents) |
✔ | ||
| 3rd party system Integration | ✔ |
| Driveworks Xpress | Driveworks Solo | Driveworks Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ONLINE CONFIGURATOR AND DRIVEWORKS 3D | |||
| Online Configurator and DriveWorks 3D | ✔ |
DriveWorks Services & Support
+DriveWorks Services
DriveWorks Services
Whether your goals are to have your engineering team an efficient, automated product modeling workflow, a tool for product specifications for your sales team to utilize when in front of a client, or whether you want your client to be able to specify the parameters of your product on their own, leverage our team of experts to implement DriveWorks automation for your business. Our experienced team implements DriveWorks to suit your needs efficiently and effectively, getting you up and running in no time and unlocking the full potential of DriveWorks design automation.
+DriveWorks Training
DriveWorks Training
At TPM, we know that having DriveWorks won't change your business, but how you use it will. Knowing the full automation capabilities of DriveWorks and how it will be configured and implemented into your business is a crucial step to unlock DriveWorks' full potential. That's why we offer DriveWorks live, instructor led training that can be taken in-person or virtually. Training options include open enrollment courses and customized DriveWorks training, led by our team of engineers, that give your team the knowledge they need to define how your business will use DriveWorks.
+DriveWorks Support
DriveWorks Support
TPM's support options give you the assistance you need in a high-paced business world that does not allow for loss of productivity. Errors with your DriveWorks purchase can be overwhelming; that's why we are committed to being your partner every step of the way. From helping you choose the right solution to providing ongoing technical support, TPM is here for you.
+TPM1 Premier Program
TPM1 Premier Program
TPM's TPM1 Premier Program is an all-inclusive solution to enhance the value of your SOLIDWORKS subscription that enables your organization to Improve Your Designs, Deliver More Work, and Win More Business.
Whether your goals are to have your engineering team an efficient, automated product modeling workflow, a tool for product specifications for your sales team to utilize when in front of a client, or whether you want your client to be able to specify the parameters of your product on their own, leverage our team of experts to implement DriveWorks automation for your business. Our experienced team implements DriveWorks to suit your needs efficiently and effectively, getting you up and running in no time and unlocking the full potential of DriveWorks design automation.
At TPM, we know that having DriveWorks won't change your business, but how you use it will. Knowing the full automation capabilities of DriveWorks and how it will be configured and implemented into your business is a crucial step to unlock DriveWorks' full potential. That's why we offer DriveWorks live, instructor led training that can be taken in-person or virtually. Training options include open enrollment courses and customized DriveWorks training, led by our team of engineers, that give your team the knowledge they need to define how your business will use DriveWorks.
TPM's support options give you the assistance you need in a high-paced business world that does not allow for loss of productivity. Errors with your DriveWorks purchase can be overwhelming; that's why we are committed to being your partner every step of the way. From helping you choose the right solution to providing ongoing technical support, TPM is here for you.
TPM's TPM1 Premier Program is an all-inclusive solution to enhance the value of your SOLIDWORKS subscription that enables your organization to Improve Your Designs, Deliver More Work, and Win More Business.
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