5 on a Friday: Bentley, Cadmatic, FARO, GoEngineer and Graphisoft all acquire
5 on a Friday: Bentley, Cadmatic, FARO, GoEngineer and Graphisoft all acquire SO much news to catch up on: FARO acquired SiteScape, a maker of low-res iOS LiDAR scanning software that’s used in indoor AEC and operations and maintenance applications....
4 on a Friday: AspenTech and FARO acquire, Autodesk reports, and OpenFOAM is (still) independent
4 on a Friday: AspenTech and FARO acquire, Autodesk reports, and OpenFOAM is (still) independent A lot of things to catch up on before the weekend: AspenTech announced that it will acquire Micromine, maker of (you guessed it) mine design and management solutions for...
3 on a Friday: Bentley goes for more debt, Rockwell acquires Plex, FARO grabs HoloBuilder
3 on a Friday: Bentley goes for more debt, Rockwell acquires Plex, FARO grabs HoloBuilder A quick recap of a few things I didn’t have time to write about this week: Bentley Systems announced this week that it was launching a second private convertible debt...
FARO buys Traceable 3D
FARO buys Traceable 3D Superquick: FARO Technologies just announced that they’ve acquired Advanced Technical Solutions in Scandinavia AB (“ATS”), maker of Traceable 3D, which combines measurement, technology, and methodology in a single workflow. The...
More earnings-apalooza: ANSYS, Trimble and FARO
Sorry – no unifying theme for this afternoon’s earnings announcements from ANSYS, Trimble and FARO. ANSYS is the CAE powerhouse; Trimble makes design, measurement and other software used in the construction, mining, trucking and similar industries. Both...
FARO revenue down, CEO departing
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for reality computing companies, as first Stratasys announced a marked slowdown in demand for its MakerBot prosumer offerings, then 3D Systems CEO Avi Reichenthal left under what sound like contentious circumstances...
Out of the Inbox: reality capture & 3D printing stalls?, BIM grows, VARs do too
A couple of things caught my eye recently, but I’ve been too wrapped up in other projects to write about them in any detail. So rather than continuing to wait until I have time, in no particular order … Reality computing seems to be taking a beating right...
Oh dear. FARO preannounces Q1
Despite all of the (deserved, accurate) hoopla about reality computing, FARO, one of the leading capture vendors, today announced preliminary results for Q1. Is it a harbinger of things to come or an isolated case? Probably more the former, as currency, regional...

