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

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 — FastLine 2D CAD template — generated from a 3D golden SolidWorks model with every dimension and text variable driven by DriveWorks logic for linear-run products.

Problem

Engineers were re-drawing the same families of fixtures order after order. Average shop drawing took 1.3 hours of skilled CAD time per product, throttling 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.

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