DriveWorks Pro 24

DriveWorks Administrator

Training

DriveWorks Resellers offer a variety of in-depth training courses to help you succeed with the software.

Contact your reseller for more information.

Planning

We have prepared a topic that gives advice on responsibility for an implementation and methods to get the best reward.

Areas discussed include:

• Who Implements DriveWorks?
• Implementation Methods
• Implementation Plan

Storing Data

DriveWorks will generate a large amount of data (particularly when automating SOLIDWORKS files).

Best practices for storing data and the storage types to avoid are highlighted in the following topic.

DriveWorks Tools

Understand the additional tools installed with DriveWorks Administrator.

• DriveWorks Data Management

  The Data Management tool is used to manage the data stored in a DriveWorks group.

• DriveWorks Group Upscale or DriveWorks Pro Server - Upscale Group

  When the implementation is ready to be deployed upscale an Individual Group to a Shared Group

• DriveWorks License Management

  View license information and configure the License Manager to be the Floating (Network) License Server.

Migrating

Any data previously set up in other DriveWorks products can be used as a starting point.

• Migrating From DriveWorksXpress
• Migrating From DriveWorks Solo

Installation

Learn where to install DriveWorks Administrator for the following scenarios:

• Single DriveWorks Administrator Working Locally
• Single DriveWorks Administrator Working on a Network
• Multiple DriveWorks Administrator Deployment

When scaling an implementation within an organization or globally, Multi-Application Deployment scenarios are also covered.

Licensing

DriveWorks Administrator can be fixed to a specific machine or obtain a network license from a central server.

Learn how DriveWorks Administrator and all other products are licensed.

Start Using DriveWorks Administrator

By Solution

Start implementing a Design Automation, CPQ or 3D Sales Configurator solution.

Start using DriveWorks Administrator

Learn about DriveWorks Administrator to set up and run a custom implementation.

Guides and Best Practices

Our guides are written by DriveWorks technical experts to provide help when you’re starting your implementation.

Learn more about the best modeling techniques to adopt to make your implementation maintainable and performant, and how to run IIS successfully.

How to Articles

These articles explain how to achieve specific tasks or implement certain features in greater detail.

Categories include User Form design, Data and Rules, DriveWorks 3D, SOLIDWORKS and PDM, Documents, Security and Specification Workflow.

Diagnostics, Reporting And Troubleshooting

Learn about the tools available to diagnose potential issues during set up and running.

Understand the feedback and reporting that DriveWorks provides when a Specification is created and models are generated.

Error Message Search

Enter the error message displayed into the Error Search Filter to be taken to the cause and solution.