DriveWorks Pro 23

Enhancements

Out of the box functionality to enhance and accelerate your use of DriveWorks

• Select and apply DriveApps from the DriveApp Administration page.
• Run DriveApps from the DriveApps page.
• Set up and customize:
  • DriveWorks Dashboard DriveApp
  • DriveWorks CPQ DriveApp (BETA)
• Source of the new DriveApps icons are credited in the About screen.

Continuous improvements, to our usability and user experience, making DriveWorks even more interactive and intuitive

• Connection to a Shared Group displays the Server Name in the Notification Area.

• New Form Templates added to Form Navigation:

  • Form Controls ToolBox - Copy and Paste stylized controls for use in your own projects.
  • Multi Form Layout Horizontal Tabs - Responsive forms with horizontal navigation.
  • Multi Form Layout Vertical Tabs - Responsive forms with vertical navigation.
  • CPQ Custom Item - allows a project to be used in the CPQ DriveApp.

• Existing Form Templates updated for consistency:

  • Single Form Layout
  • Multi Form Layout LH Tabs
  • Multi Form Layout RH Tabs
  • Multi Form Layout Bottom Tabs
  • Multi Form Layout Bottom Tabs with 3D

• Database Functions re-categorized in the Functions List.

• Informative warning message is displayed when installing DriveWorks Data Management on a machine that does not have the SOLIDWORKS Document Manager installed.

• The Security Settings list view displays the Projects each Team has permission to Edit and Run.

• New Project Templates added to the New Project Wizard:

  • DriveWorks Pro - Getting Started a simple Project to create a simple but effective DriveWorks Implementation, allowing for data entry.
  • DriveWorks Pro - Simple Design Automation great for creating a custom configurator to automate SOLIDWORKS Components.
  • DriveWorks Pro - Quotation Project an effective Template to create custom Quotation Documents easily based on User Inputs.
  • DriveWorks Pro - Drive3D great Template to combine 3D elements with an attractive Configurator.
  • CPQ Order Details - allows a user to add different account information for a CPQ DriveApp order.
  • CPQ Order Fields - allows the addition of custom fields to store alongside a CPQ DriveApp order.
  • CPQ Order Fields - allows new Specification Flow States to be added that complete when a CPQ DriveApp Order is transitioned.
  • List Data Provider - allows a custom data provider to be used with the lists in the Dashboard and CPQ DriveApps.

• The name of the opened Group and Project are displayed in Windows Task Manager and the Windows Taskbar.

• Improved cross browser support for the List Box control.

• Combo and List Box controls that have Clear Selection Allowed property set to TRUE will see this value listed as an option when viewed on Touch Devices.

• Scroll Bar Visibility properties added to the Specification Host Control.

Automated animation, improved optimization and further customization available for 3D models

• Significant performance improvements in DriveWorks 3D in a browser for raycast hit detection.

• DriveWorks 3D File now uses Batching to enhance performance of scenes with many separate models both in a browser and client modules of DriveWorks.

• New Vector Functions added:

  • VectorSignedAngle

    Calculates the signed angle between two vectors.

  • EulerInverse

    Inverses the euler rotation vector.

• Apply Smooth Translate to X, Y and Z axis to limit the motion of a node.

• DriveWorks 3D Entities along with all settings and rules can be Cut, Copied and Pasted from the Information Panel.

• Help File links added to the Information Panel of a DriveWorks 3D Document for Nodes, Entities, Environment and Appearance properties.

• Pan entity allows the camera to use relative panning for orbit cameras.

• DriveWorks 3D Templates added:

  • Orbit Camera

    Creates an Orbit Camera Node with the correct structure in place to allow the LookAt Entity to be applied to a model to follow it.

  • VR Rig

    Creates an VR Rig Node with the correct structure in place to allow the 3D Preview Box to be used with Virtual Reality hardware.

  • Three Point Lighting

    Creates a Three Point Lighting Node with the correct structure in place to apply three positional lights and two additional back lights.

  • Soft Lighting

    Creates a Soft Lighting Node with the correct structure in place to apply subtle lighting to your scene.

  • Hard Lighting

    Creates a Hard Lighting Node with the correct structure in place to apply bright lighting to your scene.

  • Turntable Rotator

    Creates an Turntable Rotator Node with the correct structure in place to allow a DriveWorks 3D Model to automatically rotate once it is loaded in the 3D Preview Box.

• Multi-select nodes from the 3D View in a DriveWorks 3D Document.

• Numeric values in a DriveWorks 3D document accept up to 5 decimal places where applicable.

Automate your designs with new PDM tasks and functions

• SOLIDWORKS Settings allow a default license to be selected for the DriveWorks add-in.

• Updated shipped versions of SOLIDWORKS Interop libraries allowing latest Advanced Feature parameters to be used.

• New Advanced Feature Parameters added:

  • Break Corner
  • Edge Flange
  • Local Circular Pattern
  • Sketch Pattern
  • Sweep Thread

• Updated Advanced Feature Parameters include the latest driveable parameters:

  • Boss\Base Thin
  • Circular Pattern
  • Curve Driven Pattern
  • Fillet
  • Hole Wizard
  • Local Linear Pattern
  • Linear Pattern
  • Sheet Metal

New tools and features simplify enterprise wide deployment and management of DriveWorks.

• New Functions added that return Group specific data:

  • GetGroupSpecifications
  • GetGroupReleasedDocuments
  • GetGroupReleasedModels
  • GetGroupSetting
  • GetDriveWorksVersion
  • GetGroupConnections
  • GetGroupCapturedComponents

• New Functions added to control Table data:

  • TableFilterByList
  • TableDistinctCount
  • TableDistinctSum
  • CSVFromTable

• New Functions added to return Security data:

  • SecGetTeamDriveApps
  • SecGetTeamProjects

• New Functions added to control HTML data:

  • HTMLDecode
  • HTMLEncode

• New Function to return any number from the owner's name:

  • MyNumber
• MyName Function has an Index overload parameter that will return any part of the owner's name.

• Optional overload to include ID column added to SecGetAllTeams, result returns CanEditDriveApps parameter.

• Optional overload to include ID column added to SecGetTeamsForUser.

• New Specification Tasks added:

  • Cancel Hosted Specification

  • Set Triggered Action States To Trigger On

• Hosted Specifications can be tested in Specification Explorer Test Mode.

• Rules and Values can be copied for each step of the Drill Down Tab in the Rules Builder.

• Group Tables can have comments applied.

• Ability to filter the Autopilot Triggered Actions list to Hide Completed, Pending and Failed.

• Version number commented into DriveWorksLiveIntegrationClient.js used by the Integration Theme.

• Autopilot has improved handling for dropped network connection to Pro Server.

• Display Performance Window property added to the 3D Preview Box to allow critical performance statistics to be displayed in real-time.

• Integration Theme - oDataQueryString parameter added to the getProjects method, in the Client SDK, to allow Projects to be filtered.

• MaxReceivedMessageSize for the Web Service Connector has been increased to 2GB, allowing larger amounts of data to be received.

• Added responseErrorDelegate method to improve custom error handling in the Integration Theme.

• Better handling of URLs with trailing slash as Integration Theme Client’s Server URL.

• Added helpful warning in Integration Theme for http/https protocol mismatch between client script’s source and configured Server URL.

• Updated Corporate Website Integration Theme example with login error handling.

• Updated Corporate Website Integration Theme example to demonstrate usage of new responseErrorDelegate feature, to better handle error states.

• Added the ability to retrieve Group Tables to the Integration Theme via the Client SDK and Server API.

• Added the ability to force resource location to use HTTPS, useful when using a proxy server.