DriveWorks Autopilot – automated design in SOLIDWORKS
Automatically generate custom product data and supporting documentation for engineering, manufacturing and sales.
Automating your design automation
As you automate more of your design processes, you can put the extra time and resources into increasing capacity and offering more customized products to more people.
Whether you keep your design automation projects in-house – just for your engineers and sales teams – or extend the benefits of design automation to your distributors, dealers and customers, the modular design of DriveWorks gives you flexibility and choice.
With DriveWorks taking care of all the up-front automation, you can focus on winning more business. Growing sales bring greater demand for 3D models, 2D drawings, bills of materials and sales quotes, tying up your CAD workstations and your engineers when they could be doing other productive work – improving product quality, developing new products or exploring new market opportunities. To solve this problem, DriveWorks created an innovative solution: DriveWorks Autopilot, a hands-free design automation module that runs unattended on a dedicated workstation or server, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, automatically generating custom products and documentation for engineering, manufacturing and sales.
Create documents automatically
Automatically generate custom documents and data for sales and manufacturing, send emails and process tasks in the background.
Visualize custom product configurations in 3D
Generate 3D model data so configured products can be viewed in a web browser with DriveWorks Live.
Create documents automatically
Delivers instant quotes for sales and lets engineers focus on other productive work.
Send notifications
Send email notifications to users when jobs are complete or need attention or further work.
Key features
Streamlining design automation
When DriveWorks and SOLIDWORKS® work together to generate custom 3D models and 2D drawings, your time is used more efficiently and the benefits of design automation are clear.
Products configured in-house with DriveWorks Administrator or DriveWorks User, or online with DriveWorks Live, are queued by DriveWorks Pro Server until a SOLIDWORKS CAD workstation becomes free and an engineer can set aside time to run the pending design automation jobs. As your business keeps growing, you may find this turns into a full-time job or creates unnecessary bottlenecks.
That’s when you need DriveWorks Autopilot – to process the job queue immediately, generate all the documents you need for engineering, manufacturing and sales, and notify you by email when specific jobs are complete.
Specification workflows
Because every DriveWorks project is controlled from one central location with DriveWorks Administrator, you have full control over how your custom design specification is created and routed.
It may not always be possible to automate all your products 100% – some human interaction may be needed to complete a particularly demanding design, check document outputs or send a design for approval.
The Specification Flow feature in DriveWorks is perfect for these situations. When a specific task is completed or a specific condition is met, your Specification Flow can instruct DriveWorks Autopilot to take corrective action, notify your engineers or email quotes and other documents to your sales staff.
Scalable to fit your business needs
DriveWorks was designed from the ground up to be modular, flexible and scalable, so you can expand your design automation and sales configurator projects at any time.
As demand for configuring your products online grows, you can add more DriveWorks Live and DriveWorks Autopilot licenses whenever you need them – and impress your customers with an interactive website where they can quickly configure custom products with 3D previews and instant pricing.
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DriveWorks Pro modules
DriveWorks Pro consists of 4 software modules.
The modular structure of DriveWorks Pro makes it easy to build a solution that keeps pace with your company’s changing needs.
Start with DriveWorks Administrator, then add features and modules as and when you need them.
DriveWorks Administrator
Set up and manage your design automation and configurator project with DriveWorks Administrator and the SOLIDWORKS add-in.
DriveWorks Autopilot
Automatically generate custom product data and supporting documentation for engineering, manufacturing and sales. Automatic emails and batch order processing.
DriveWorks User
Let engineers, sales teams and non-technical users across your company run your design automation projects, configure custom products and create sales and manufacturing documentation automatically.
DriveWorks Live
Turn your existing design automation projects into online sales configurators that let your sales teams, distributors, dealers and customers easily configure and view your products in 3D on any device, right in their web browser.
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