Quickie: Siemens adds Atlas 3D to 3D printing bench

Quickie: Siemens adds Atlas 3D to 3D printing bench

Nov 13, 2019 | Hot Topics

Blog Siemens announced yesterday that it will acquire Atlas 3D, Inc. before then end of November. Atlas 3D makes Sunata, software that helps designers optimize print orientation and support structures for direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) printers via sophisticated...
Hexagon’s race to the Smart Factory

Hexagon’s race to the Smart Factory

Jul 17, 2019 | Hot Topics

What if you could reimagine your product design and manufacturing processes? Start from scratch, rather than have to deal with legacy thinking, work processes and tools? Come up with new ways of working in all areas of your business? That’s what Hexagon wants us all...
Quickie: Siemens adds Atlas 3D to 3D printing bench

Carbon raises another $260 million to advance 3DP

Jun 26, 2019 | Hot Topics

And one more bit of 3D printing news: Carbon, a company that’s billed as a “3D printing poster child” by Venturebeat says it has raised $260 million in venture round led by Madrone Capital Partners and Baillie Gifford, with other partners Sequoia...
ExOne and Siemens partner for IoT-enabled 3DP

ExOne and Siemens partner for IoT-enabled 3DP

Jun 25, 2019 | Hot Topics

Siemens and ExOne, maker of sand and metal 3D printers, just announced a partnership targeted at bringing its binder jetting technology to prospects in the foundry, aerospace, automotive, energy and other markets. According to the announcement, Siemens’ MindSphere is...
Quickie: Siemens adds Atlas 3D to 3D printing bench

Hexagon adds to its additive bench

Jun 24, 2019 | Hot Topics

One of the things I learned at Hexagon’s HxGN LIVE conference (but haven’t had time to write about yet, sorry) is that the company is on a mission regarding 3D printing (3DP). Planning, prepping, simulating, doing. Today, Hexagon announced that it is...
Quickie: Siemens adds Atlas 3D to 3D printing bench

Super-quick: ANSYS acquires 3DSIM for additive

Nov 15, 2017 | Hot Topics

ANSYS just announced that  it has acquired 3DSIM, a developer of additive manufacturing simulation technology to bolster ANSYS’ additive manufacturing simulation workflow. Deal terms were not disclosed but it sounds like a done deal. 3DSIM’s exaSIM...
Autodesk sells Moldflow’s US lab to Beaumont

Autodesk sells Moldflow’s US lab to Beaumont

Feb 24, 2017 | Hot Topics

Unless you’re a plastics guy, you may not know this, but one of Moldflow’s key differentiators is its material testing laboratories. Plastics are tricky, with fibers and layers and temperatures and shrinkage rates … designing a mold that can fill and...
Autodesk sells Moldflow’s US lab to Beaumont

Quickie: GE abandons offer to buy SLM

Oct 27, 2016 | Hot Topics

I wrote in September about GE’s strategy to acquire German company SLM, maker of 3D printing machines, as part of an effort to build a $1 billion additive manufacturing business by 2020. It appears that Elliot Management (which you may remember as a long-time...
Siemens unleashes the potential of 3D printing

Siemens unleashes the potential of 3D printing

Sep 19, 2016 | Hot Topics

Ahh, Fall! Here in the Northern hemisphere, a time of cooler temperatures, changing foliage and … PLMish conferences. Analyst events, user conferences, product launches — it’s a busy time in our little world. In order to keep up with it all,...
Autodesk sells Moldflow’s US lab to Beaumont

Quickie: GE all in on 3D printing

Sep 6, 2016 | Hot Topics

General Electric, the global megacorp that includes aircraft engines in its huge manufacturing portfolio, announced today that it is acquiring two European 3D printing companies for a total of $1.4 billion, making ever more real its vision to supply more complex...