SOLIDWORKS automation features

Save time and improve product quality by automatically creating accurate manufacturing drawings.

• 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

DriveWorks creates new copies of your SOLIDWORKS master files; all changes are made to these copies, which are saved to new locations based on your rules.

• Your master files are never changed or overwritten
• No risk of corrupting master data
• Drawing references are always correct, driven by your rules

Automatically replace components in SOLIDWORKS assemblies with static parts from a library or dynamic replacements pre-driven by DriveWorks.

• Unlimited replacements
• Keep master models simple
• Easily add new replacement options

Use rules to control whether DriveWorks creates new SOLIDWORKS files or reuses existing ones.

• Use smart file naming to build a component library
• Cut generation time by reusing previously created models
• Roll out design changes quickly

Apply specific tasks that run while your new SOLIDWORKS models, assemblies and drawings are being created, for complete control over how each new model is built.

• A toolkit of more than 30 generation tasks
• Fine-grained control of SOLIDWORKS automation
• Generative modeling with task repetition

You have full control over the save location and folder structure of the files DriveWorks creates. Automatically produce any additional file format available in SOLIDWORKS.

• Full control over file naming – use smart file naming to build a component library
• Save files exactly where you want them
• Create any additional file format available in SOLIDWORKS