Design Automation
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SolidWorks 3D CAD software gives designers and engineers powerful tools to speed the development of design variants and automate repetitive design tasks, accelerating the design process, saving time and development costs, and increasing productivity.
Design Automation Overview
SolidWorks 3D CAD tools automate repetitive design tasks, benefiting companies making custom products for bid/RFP, as well as high volume manufacturers. SolidWorks design automation tools include:
- DriveWorksXpress—Automate your design process, and generate infinite variations of a model using a rules-based project that you set up once and run again and again
- Capture and re-use design knowledge to save time and money
- Incorporate design rules to minimize errors and cost from manual mistakes
- Automate repetitive tasks to dramatically reduce design time when specifying new variants
- Free design engineers from doing repetitive tasks to concentrate on new and special designs
- Generate variations quickly and easily based on rules you create
- Hotkeys—Automate many simple tasks with only a few mouse clicks
- SolidWorks Macros—Automate and streamline tasks with only a few steps
- Task Scheduler—Schedule and automatically drive off-peak batch processing activities
- Links to Microsoft® VBA—Generate custom automation using standard industry automation tools
- Built-in Application Programming Interface (API)—Automate specific functions in SolidWorks
