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DriveWorks on my Touch Screen Tablet

There's nothing like a picture to show what's possible.

I am really pleased with the way our DriveWorks Online Configurator GUEST site looks on my new Dell Duo. I think it really makes the point just how scalable DriveWorks is.
Imagine I am Sales Rep or Distributor onsite with customers and all I need to do is go to a browser and HEY PRESTO!.... I can design and configure new products.........Online.

 
The examples we have online right now cover Furniture, Hydraulic Cylinders, Trailers and a Canopy.

All very cool.

 

Custom Conservatory Designed Using DriveWorks Xpress

DriveWorks Reseller in Cincinnati

 
As DriveWorks Resellers are very important to users of DriveWorks Software and key members of the DriveWorks Community, I thought it would be good to start mentioning them in my blog.

To start I've picked 3D Vision Technologies based out of Cincinnati, Ohio as the first one.
I've known Business Owner Todd Majeski and his team for many years. Regular DriveWorks Twitter followers will probably also already be familiar with Jeff Sweeney and his blog.

We were delighted to receive this photo from the 3D Vision Training Room! It's amazing how DriveWorks Solo gets EVERYWHERE!

Jeff hosts regular DriveWorks events and you will find details of these on the superb 3D Vision website. And of course you will also find everything you need to know about SolidWorks and Enterprise PDM too!

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"If I didn't waste all my time quoting I could actually design something."

"I wish I could find a better way to make each of these components longer, maybe a stretch all command."

"If we could cut down on engineering lead time we could easily double maybe even triple production"

Click here to read Cole Mcleod's blog about DriveWorksXpress in SolidWorks

Same but different - Wheelchair

A trip to Athens back in 2004 coincided with the 2004 Paralympics. I had gone to visit the stadium and was there as one of the Basket Ball teams was unloading its chairs. At the time it struck me how although on the face of it each chair looked the same, in practise they weren't at all - each one was custom designed.

The specification for each chair depended on the individual players size, weight and probably the position that they played in the team too.

It struck me then what a perfect example this would be to put into DriveWorksXpress (and full DriveWorks). Fill out a Form and generate the manufacturing data for a custom chair.

   

There's a new  DriveWorksXpress Video on YouTube showing it in action

Speed Dating? DriveWorks...?

Yup ..... DriveWorks has  now done Speed Dating .....

Solid Solutions Management one of our Resellers in the UK,  invited 250 customers to attend their SolidWorks 2009 event... and they invited us to do a spot of Speed Dating!!!

100 seconds on stage to tell the audience all about DriveWorks - NOW that is a tall order. So knowing that I had limited time and that this was Speed Dating I did the most obvious thing and "Xpressed" what I wanted to cover..... and that of course meant focus on DriveWorksXpress.

Here's how it went.....

Good  ………. Morning

I have 5 things I’d like to tell you

So I’d better be quick………………….

No 1 - I am NOT here to sell you anything

No 2 - I AM here to tell you about DriveWorksXpress…

SolidWorks chose to put DriveWorksXpress, our Design Automation Tool inside EVERY Seat of SolidWorks from 2008.

No  3  –  So you have it but … What use is it to you?

Well if you are a Design Engineer and you find that when you design things that some of what you do is based on things that are THE SAME but DIFFERENT each time, then DriveWorksXpress will help you create new variations of your parts, assemblies and drawings quickly and easily.

No  4  HOW does it do it?

 YOU put what YOU know about YOUR designs into DriveWorksXpress – ie the rules that drive your design, then, use those rules to generate your new variations automatically.

By “rules “ it could be something like
If the length is greater than 6m add an extra support, if it’s less than 6m then don’t.

PHEW …. LAST one
No 5  - How can you find out more?

Visit the DriveWorksXpress website – all the wwws driveworksxpress.com…..you’ll find Tutorials, Videos, and loads of stuff to download ……..

Or check out THIS book – the Little Book of Rules -  it is jam packed with sample rules.  You can buy it for $20 off the web.

Or…. Visit our stand TODAY … we have 50 copies to give out ….for FREE.

Did you get all that?

DriveWorksXpress ……………… Easy to Use Design Automation inside EVERY seat of SolidWorks

 – visit our stand for a FREE book!

And that was it........................100 seconds of Speed Dating for DriveWorks - thanks to all who stopped by :)

And so to Brisbane

It was great to meet the Brisbane InterCad team - and someone managed to take LOTS of photos - thanks Melinda.

  

The Intercad Innovation day was also a day of trailers.... Ian had just uploaded the new DriveWorksXpress "Design a Guard Rail for a Trailer" files and example  to the DriveWorksXpress site that day ..... and so I was keen to show the wholed story of automate something simple, add to it and who knows how far you will get - in other words from a trailer guard rail to a full trailer if you want.

This naturally led to a full DriveWorks demonstration of a truck, and I am pleased to say that I now know the maximum height specification for a truck in Australia - 4.3metres. I didn't know that before so now we can add this to the rules in the project. It's information like this that helps us explain the value of a being able to incorporate rules into DriveWorks. Now there will be no danger of me demonstrating over-size trucks that get stuck under bridges!!! 

   

DriveWorks on Tour for SolidWorks Rollouts - Christchurch - NZ

I had hoped to catch the full What's New in SolidWorks 2009? presentation in Christchurch but a spot of dense fog meant I flew the length and breadth of New Zealand (from Auckland to Queenstown) and back to Christchurch....  before meeting up with the Intercad team.

Anyway when I finally landed and caught up with the Intercad guys at the Innovation Day I was really impressed with some of the new features in SolidWorks - especially the stuff for Sheetmetal.

Of course I was delighted to see so many people had signed up for the session on Design Automation.

More news to follow from Brisbane and Melbourn soon

DriveWorks Everywhere

It's that time of year again - SolidWorks Rollouts, major SolidWorks User Group Meetings and we are out in force.

Just received this photo of Lucinda and Philip who were attending the North East SolidWorks User Group.