New Project Wizard (DriveWorks Documentation)

New Project Wizard

The new project wizard allows the creation of a project within a group.

The following options exist within the wizard:

Best Practices

It is recommended creating all projects in a common directory structure, for example:

C:\DriveWorks\MyProjects\MyProject1
C:\DriveWorks\MyProjects\MyProject2
C:\DriveWorks\MyProjects\MyProject3

When creating projects in an Individual Group, we recommended creating sub-directories for each project from the location of the group.

Please see Info: Where To Store DriveWorks Data for information on where to store the data associated to a DriveWorks implementation.

To create a new DriveWorks Project:

Select the New DriveWorks Project and click Next.
Double clicking an item in the list will select that item and advance to the next step of the wizard.
Browse to an empty folder to create the project in by clicking the Browse button at the end of the Location field and click OK.
By default the Name field will be populated with the same name as the selected directory.
This can be accepted as the Project Name or a new name entered.
If a project exists with the same name, or the entered name is invalid, an appropriate message is displayed under the Name field.
Click Finish.

Creates a new Project based on the chosen template, which can be easily modified.

Each of the Templates included in the Product are different in terms of their design and are better suited for different Implementations.

The following templates are available:

The Simple Design Automation template is great for creating a custom configurator to automate SOLIDWORKS Components.

From the New Project Wizard:

Select the Product Template and click Next.
Browse to a location the template will be installed by clicking the Browse button at the end of the Location field and click OK.
The directory must be empty to extract the template.
An appropriate message is displayed under the Location field if the template cannot be extracted to the selected location.
By default the Name field will be populated with the same name as the selected directory.
This can be accepted as the Project Name or a new name entered.
If a project exists with the same name, or the entered name is invalid, an appropriate message is displayed under the Name field.
Click Next to extract the template.
Click Finish once the template has been extracted.

For more information on importing projects from DriveWorksXpress, take a look at the Migrate From DriveWorksXpress help topic.

For more information on importing projects from DriveWorks Solo, take a look at the Migrate From DriveWorks Solo help topic.