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Business Need
Design Automation and Product Configuration
Company Description
Use DriveWorks to build your own design automation, 3D product configurator and CPQ for Manufacturing solution. Enable your engineers, sales teams, dealers and distributors, to design, engineer, and configure to order, on premise or online. Automate the creation of order-specific quotes, sales documents and associated SOLIDWORKS® manufacturing data.
DriveWorksXpress: Basic design automation (dimensions, features, configurations) within SOLIDWORKS.
DriveWorks Solo: Advanced design automation, including custom forms, basic document creation (quotes, BOMs), and is easy for a single user to set up.
DriveWorks Pro: The ultimate full-stack solution: enterprise-level CPQ, online web configurator (DriveWorks Live), full system integration (ERP/CRM/PDM), and automated workflow management (Autopilot).
Rules Engine: The core logic system. Captures design, manufacturing, and costing knowledge, using rules (formulas and logic) to drive the creation of all outputs, ensuring configured products are always manufacturable and priced correctly.
Form Designer: Allows users to build custom, responsive user interfaces (input forms) without coding, guiding users through the selection process (Guided Selling) to ensure all necessary specifications are captured accurately.
Interactive 3D Preview (DriveWorks Live): Publishes the configurator online, enabling customers to visualize their custom product in real-time 3D, view options on any device, and even support Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR).
SOLIDWORKS Automation: Controls dimensions, features, custom properties, component replacement, and configurations within SOLIDWORKS, automatically generating the final, production-ready models and drawings.