Additive manufacturing roars into 2013

Additive manufacturing roars into 2013

Mar 4, 2013 | Hot Topics

Additive manufacturing (aka 3D printing) is hot right now, making appearances in the US President’s State of the Union speech, popular crime-fighting TV shows and all over social media. But is it just hype over something about-to-happen, or are companies...
Box.com tries cloud end-run for the AEC market

Box.com tries cloud end-run for the AEC market

Mar 1, 2013 | Hot Topics

I use cloud storage for all of the usual reasons: always-on access makes it easy for me to work wherever I am. I can collect the files relevant to a project in one place, create a backup of important works-in-progress and collaborate with others without emailing large...
Additive manufacturing roars into 2013

ANSYS revenue up 11% in Q4, looks at 10%-13% in 2013

Feb 28, 2013 | Hot Topics

ANSYS today reported results for Q4 and full-year 2012 that, while good, highlight the slow growth in Q4 of the company’s non-Apache products. Since ANSYS has been such an aggressive aggregator of simulation technologies, it wouldn’t surprise me to see...
Additive manufacturing roars into 2013

Quickie: 3D Systems closes Geomagic acquisition

Feb 27, 2013 | Hot Topics

As expected, 3D Systems today announced that the Geomagic deal has closed. To recap, 3D Systems paid $55 million in cash to add Geomagic’s 3D design, sculpting and inspection scan processing solutions to its portfolio. Geomagic is expected to be accretive to...
Additive manufacturing roars into 2013

DDD Q4 revenue up 45% on printer demand

Feb 25, 2013 | Hot Topics

3D Systems (DDD) today reported record revenue for both Q4 and fiscal 2012, as the hype around rapid prototyping continued to drive demand for its 3D printers and supplies. Q4 revenue was up 45% to $102 million; organic revenue was up 19%. For the year, revenue grew...
CAE competence management: are we ready?

CAE competence management: are we ready?

Feb 22, 2013 | Hot Topics

There’s an apocryphal story in CAE: A number of years ago, an auto company decided to see how consistently CAE was applied across its organization. Management asked a number of individual analysts to solve the same problem using the same code. Lo and behold,...
Additive manufacturing roars into 2013

Many signals positive as HEXA, NEMT and TRMB report

Feb 20, 2013 | Hot Topics

We’ve recently heard from three of the main publicly traded players in infrastructure software and this week we start hearing from some of their main customers. It seems, therefore, like a good time to review what’s being said about the climate for...
Additive manufacturing roars into 2013

Cimatron shares tumble after earnings release

Feb 20, 2013 | Hot Topics

Cimatron is a funny little company whose shares are traded on both the NASDAQ in the US and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in Israel. Even so, not one investor asked a question during the earnings call, which meant it was over in minutes — but also means that we...