Welcome to DriveWorks Pro Help
If you have used DriveWorks previously then you may want to take a look at the What's New section available from the help file within the product.
About Help
DriveWorks Help is available as a compiled help file that is installed with any DriveWorks module, or as an online version.
The online version is continually updated with new articles and represents the version that will be incorporated into the next service pack of DriveWorks.
Help in the help file is broken into a few different categories:
- Administrator, 3D Workshop, User, Autopilot, Live - contains detailed information about the capabilities in the various DriveWorks applications.
- Tools - contains detailed information about the use of the various tools installed by DriveWorks.
- Knowledge Base - Includes various conceptual information, detailed How To articles, Informational topics and information on the plugins available from DriveWorks labs.
Online Help -
docs.driveworkspro.com
The online version of the help can be found at http://docs.driveworkspro.com/
Searching Online Help
Click the search button from the header of the online help page. This will load the search page as below.
Enter your search criteria in the search box, and click the
Start Search button
The results will be displayed in order of relevance, along with the first few lines of text.
Clicking any of the links provided on the results page will take you directly to that article.
Use your browsers back button to return to the results screen if the article is not relevant to you.
Additional Resources
User Community
Customers with a valid subscription service contract can participate in the DriveWorks Pro User Community - http://hub.driveworks.co.uk/customer/index.php. Access to the community is emailed to the main contact.
Example Projects
There are many DriveWorks Solo example projects available for download from http://www.driveworkssolo.com/index.php/training/sample-projects.
Follow the instructions at the above link to download and install the project and then refer to the article Migration - From DriveWorks Solo.
How To Videos
There are many short instructional videos available from the DriveWorks Pro website http://www.driveworkspro.com/index.php/training/how-to.
Getting Started - Installing
DriveWorks
Deployment Guide
If you are using the DriveWorks Administrator module only it is likely you know where this needs to be installed. But if you have purchased multiple modules, are using a floating (network) license, or are ready to roll out your implementation for external access you will find the article How To: Deploy DriveWorks Pro very useful.
Prerequisites
It is always worth checking the machines DriveWorks Pro are to be installed on meet the minimum requirements for hardware and software.
Installation
A step by step installation guide is available from the article Installation .
Licensing
Information on how to license your DriveWorks Pro modules is available in the article Licensing.
Getting Started - From
New
If you are new to DriveWorks Pro we recommend attending a training course available from your DriveWorks reseller.
Additional resources are available (see section above) but this help file is a great source of information.
Our DriveWorks and
SolidWorks Best Practices Guides will help you avoid any potential
problems.
Information on capturing
models to be automated can be found from the links below:
Information on the
DriveWorks Project Designer can be found from the links
below:
Information on building
Rules can be found from the links below:
Getting Started - From Other
DriveWorks Versions
If you have used any other DriveWorks product you will find the information required to make use of the data from that product here.
DriveWorks Pro Version 7
and 8
No migration needs to be done when moving from DriveWorks 7 or DriveWorks 8, but once your project is saved it will not be compatible with earlier versions of DriveWorks.