DriveWorks Product Automation

CAD Automation · Logic-Driven Design

Automated shop-drawing generation for 83 configurable lighting products by designing CAD models in SolidWorks and driving variables through logic in DriveWorks Pro.

SHOP-DRAWING TIME FOR EACH ORDER LINE

1.3 hours→6 minutes

PRODUCTS AUTOMATED

0→83

Problem

Technical drawers were the same families of fixtures order after order. Average shop drawing took 1.3 hours of skilled CAD time per product, throttling client submittal lead times on high-mix orders.

Approach

Modeled 83 products in SolidWorks with parametric, variable-driven geometry
Built DriveWorks Pro rules to map customer configurations to CAD outputs
Centralized version-controlled product data in SolidWorks PDM
Created CAD + data test suites validated before each production deployment

Outcome

Shop-drawing creation collapsed from a skilled bottleneck to a near-instant generated artifact, freeing engineering to focus on new product introduction.

Artifacts

Selected outputs from the project — videos, generated drawings, code, and stakeholder decks.

DriveWorks generation walkthrough — a customer configuration is solved by DriveWorks Pro logic and renders the full shop-drawing set for a linear product in seconds, end-to-end from inputs to released PDF.

FastLine 2D shop-drawing template generated by DriveWorks Pro — 2D CAD TEMPLATE — GENERATED FROM A 3D GOLDEN SOLIDWORKS MODEL WITH EVERY DIMENSION AND TEXT VARIABLE DRIVEN BY DRIVEWORKS LOGIC FOR LINEAR-RUN PRODUCTS.

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