Book review: Bentley Annual Report

Apr 24, 2012 | Hot Topics

Bentley Systems is an unusual company, in that it’s privately held yet gives an annual update on how the business is doing. The company held a conference call last month (blogged about here) and recently published its Annual Report which provides a bit more...

3D Systems expands into aero, medical

Apr 17, 2012 | Hot Topics

The news just keeps on coming — clearly, the engineering software space is in the throws of a massive acquisition binge. Today, 3D Systems announced that it has acquired Paramount Industries, a direct manufacturing and product development solutions provider to...

Makers: Objet and Stratasys merge

Apr 16, 2012 | Hot Topics

Last week, 3D Systems acquired My Robot Nation as it continues to broaden its reach to the consumer maker market. Today, Stratasys and Objet further heated up the 3D printing market on news that they would merge their two companies into the Stratasys brand. It’s a...

DDD acquires My Robot Nation

Apr 11, 2012 | Hot Topics

The move to bring ever more technology into the hands of makers picked up a bit more steam yesterday, as 3D Systems Corp. (DDD) announced that it has acquired My Robot Nation, a web platform that enables users to design and manufacture their own toy robots. It’s quite...

Quickies: AspenTech, Cimatron, Comet & MuM

Mar 1, 2012 | Hot Topics

Trying to keep up with the news flow isn’t easy this week! Here are a few tidbits that might have escaped your notice: Aspen Tech has acquired SolidSim Engineering GmbH, a provider of solids process modeling software. It’s a natural combination, since a lot of...

Mentor expands CAE offering

Feb 7, 2012 | Hot Topics

Last month, Mentor Graphics announced that it had acquired Flowmaster, a developer of “1D” computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation software. Just look at that sentence: Mentor, Flowmaster, 1D, CFD – how does that fit together, let alone in a...

More acquisitions: Hexagon’s turn

Jan 19, 2012 | Hot Topics

Hexagon today announce that it has acquired MicroSurvey Software Inc., a Canadian developer of software used in the surveying, construction, and for forensic reconstruction. I first became aware of MicroSurvey more than 10 years ago, when I worked on my first Daratech...

ADSK supports T-Splines for Rhino/SolidWorks

Jan 5, 2012 | Hot Topics

Just before the year-end, Autodesk announced that it had acquired the technology assets of T-Splines, Inc., patent holder of the T-Splines surface modeling technology. Many people emailed and blogged their fears that this would spell the end of the popular T-Splines...

Quick Update: Autodesk’s T-Splines

Dec 23, 2011 | Hot Topics

Earlier on Thursday, Autodesk announced that it was acquiring some of the assets of T-Splines, Inc., patent holder of the T-Splines surface modeling technology. The news release raised more questions than it answered, and we reached out to Autodesk to see if we...

Autodesk acquires T-Spline tech

Dec 22, 2011 | Hot Topics

Autodesk’s buying binge is not over yet for 2011, as the company announced early today that it has acquired “certain technology-related assets from T-Splines Inc., a privately-held surface modeling software company … Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.”...