Explore our technical guides, best practice and how to articles to aid your implementation.
These articles have been written to provide guidance when beginning an implementation.
Deploying DriveWorks Pro - Installation scenarios for single and multiple DriveWorks Pro modules.
DriveWorks Best Practices - Tips on locating DriveWorks data, Group types and Model Generation methods.
Implementation Guide - Selecting a champion, training, implementation methods and planning.
Microsoft Azure - DriveWorks in the Cloud.
Learn about the best modelling techniques to adopt to make your implementation maintainable and performant.
Improving Model Generation Performance - Adjusting settings and the role employing multiple DriveWorks Autopilots can play in speeding up model generation.
SolidWorks Best Practices - Best modeling practices for automating assemblies, parts and drawings.
DriveWorks Live can run directly as an application or as a service through IIS (providing many benefits). These articles discuss everything needed to run IIS successfully.
Installing IIS - Learn which IIS features are required to run DriveWorks Live.
DriveWorks Live - IIS Management - Add your site to IIS using DriveWorks Live in built IIS Management tool.
Configuring DriveWorks Live (Web and Application Theme) For IIS - Add your site to IIS manually.
Configuring DriveWorks Live (Integration Theme) For IIS - Add your site to IIS manually.
Load Balancing IIS - Distribute web site traffic across multiple web servers.
Troubleshooting IIS - Common issues faced when using IIS.
These articles explain how to achieve specific tasks or implement certain features in greater detail.
Working with DriveWorks Groups, connecting to other databases, backing up and optimizing SQL.
DriveWorks Groups and Data
How To Backup A SQL Database (Shared Group)
How To Restore A SQL Server Database (Shared Group)
How To Backup An Individual Group
How To Move An Individual Group
How To Reduce The Size Of A Group
How To Copy A Project Into An Existing Group
How To Copy A Project Into A New Group
SQL Server
How To Configure SQL Server For Remote Access
How To Configure Windows Firewall For SQL Server
How To Write Database Queries Using SQL
How To Optimize A SQL Database
Connecting through a DSN
How To Setup a DSN To a Microsoft Access Database
Model Automation and PDM Integration
How To Drive Sheet Metal Parts
How To Generate A Drawing That References Multiple Files
How To Name And Write Rules For A Face Or Plane In A SOLIDWORKS Part
How To Replace A Component With A Static Or Driven ReplacementModel
How To Replace An Instance With A Driven Replacement Model
How To Create A Macro To Run On A SolidWorks File
How To Maintain Rules For An Existing Model When It Becomes A Child Of A Parent Assembly
Further enhance your online configurator.
How To Automatically Start DriveWorks Live
How To Calculate The RAM Required For A DriveWorks Live Server
How To Change The Favicon In DriveWorks Live
How To Change The Loading Gif In DriveWorks Live
How To Customize a DriveWorks Live Form Using CSS
How To Customize The DriveWorks Live Web Theme
How To Embed Non-Standard Fonts
How To Extend The Time Out In DriveWorks Live
How To Implement An Auto Login in DriveWorks Live
How To Make Your Website React To Specification Events With The Integration Theme
How To Modify Update Interval In DriveWorks Live
How To Pass Data From A Website To A Specification Within IFrame
Make your DriveWorks 3D files look great for the Web.
Calculating node rotations in Drive3D Documents
Plan for server restarts and communicate with Web Services.
How To Automatically Start Autopilot
How To Create The Data for a Web Service to Communicate with DriveWorks Autopilot
Use the power of rules to work with your data.
How To Delete Rows From A Group Table Or Simple Table
How To Find A Number In A Table
How To Set DWCurrentUser (Special Variable) When Autopilot Generates
Working with Documents.
How To Change Document Generation Order
Guides and techniques for installing and licensing.
How To Determine the Version of DriveWorks Pro
Installation Checklist (pre-requisites and considerations)
How To Install DriveWorks From A Command Line
Identify License Activation Codes
How To Connect To A Floating License
How To License With An Internet Connection
Security settings and workflow.
How To Set Up DriveWorks Security
How To Create And Install A Specification Flow Template
How To Modify Specification Flow
How To Display A Project Image On The New Specification Dialog
Create and install predefined templates to quickly create content.
How To Create And Install A Project Template
How To Create And Install A Group Template
Tips and tricks to aid User Form design.
How To Apply Line Item Numbers To Child Specifications
How To Change A Static Property To A Dynamic Property
Text Formatting For Labels and Tooltips
How To Create A Clickable Image
How To Create In Form Navigation
How To Reference Control Properties (to use in Rules)
How To Use The Macro Argument Property
In-built tools to diagnose issues.
Reports provide feedback and a complete audit trail.
Find any errors you may encounter and see how they are resolved.
Microsoft .NET September 2022 Update Crash
Automatically installed Plugins are installed with each module.
PowerPacks offer additional functionality and can be updated outside of the release cycle of the main product. If used, they are required to be installed on each machine where a DriveWorks module is installed.
DriveWorks is built on its own fully documented API. This makes it easy to integrate DriveWorks with any of your company systems.
We have created a Software Development Kit (SDK) that includes the reference assemblies that you will need, the complete documentation as well as some Visual Studio Project Templates.