DriveWorks Pro Administrator Essentials

Class Outline

Lesson 1 – Applications

• Create a new group to store your data
• Capture part and assembly information ready for automation

Lesson 2 – Projects and User Interface

• Create a new project for your forms and rules
• Create a user interface to enter new product data
• Use the rules builder to create and validate rules

Lesson 3 – Building Rules

• Use constants to store static values
• Use variables to evaluate reusable rules
• Build rules for the captured models

Lesson 4 – Running your Project and Diagnostics

• Use your forms to specify configurations
• Generate variations of the 3D models in SOLIDWORKS
• Use inbuilt reporting to validate your results

Lesson 5 – Additional Model Rules

• Update file name rules to drive the names of new models
• Update relative path rules to drive the location of new models
• Use both rules to create project specific and intelligent file naming
• Update configuration and instance rules to control the side rails

Lesson 6 – Tables and Functions

• Manually create tabular data in DriveWorks
• Use tabular data in your rules

Lesson 7 – Form Navigation and Advanced Form Controls

• Use form templates
• Copy and paste controls from one form to another
• Use more advanced form controls

Lesson 8 – Replacement Files

• Add more component sets to your project
• Swap these component sets for existing models
• Drive these component sets based on rules

Lesson 9 – Documents

• Create a quotation document using the quote template

Lesson 10 – Drawings

• Capture a SOLIDWORKS drawing in DriveWorks
• Drive the drawing based on rules

Lesson 11 – Specification Control

• Create a simple Specification Flow
• Add tasks to run on states and transitions

Lesson 12 – Specification Macros

• Create a macro button on your form
• Create a Specification Macro to run using your macro button