Software for Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing

Design, simulation, pre-processing, distribution, manufacturing, inspection, and quality…A lot of software tools are required to effectively implement 3D printing in a production environment. What are the different categories of 3D printing software (Additive Manufacturing Software ) & most importantly, how do they fit together in an AM workflow?

How 3D printer manufacturers harness Oqton’s solutions: the case of Farsoon and Xact Metal

Software provider Oqton continues to partner with AM companies with different expertise to streamline the production with its platform. If the beginning of the year saw partnerships with Baker Hughes, Twikit and CASTOR, the...

DfAM: nTop discusses main updates of its flagship product

With the goal of bringing AM to mainstream production, software companies have as much work to do as other technology providers of the industry. For companies like nTop – previously known as nTopology -,...

Materialise’ latest version of Magics enables more traceability, connectivity, and automation

3D printing company Materialise has announced introducing new features for Magics, its data and build preparation software.  From product design to part and build preparation to printing, the digital thread connects the entire manufacturing...

Arkema and 3YOURMIND launch Easy3D material selection platform

Collaborations between material producers and software providers are not the most regular ones, but probably one of the most interesting ones that can occur between two stakeholders of the AM industry. The result of...

Oqton integrates CASTOR’s software into its Manufacturing OS platform

CASTOR, a software company that helps manufacturers identify opportunities for additive manufacturing (AM), is now collaborating with Oqton, a software provider that helps manufacturers increase efficiency by intelligently automating production. As part of the collaboration,...

Mantle adds high-precision shaping capabilities to its hybrid metal 3D printing technology

With the goal of enabling tool rooms to automate their toolmaking process by producing sharp corners and edges, Mantle, a manufacturer developing metal 3D printing for toolmaking, has recently unveiled a High-Precision Shaping package....

EOS unveils Smart Fusion software for faster LPBF metal 3D printing

First available for EOS machines and in the long-run on AMCM systems EOS has developed a software solution that could speed up the metal 3D printing process of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) machines....

Dyndrite to create metal 3D printer process materials knowledge with researchers from NMIS

 Dyndrite™, providers of the GPU-accelerated computation engine, is now a member of the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS). The company will work with researchers from the NMIS Digital Factory on the development of Laser...

Hybrid Software creates an in-house startup with a focus on 3D software

HYBRID Software, a developer of enterprise software for industrial print manufacturing, will expand its operations to the Additive Manufacturing field. The company has just created an internal startup unit within its Ghent office. The unit...

Software: Is AI the “magic word” designed to make your product design less boring?

In our recap of the year, we observed that technology companies have been continuously working on more robust software solutions across the manufacturing workflow; software solutions that can streamline workflows and integrate with existing...

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3D Printing Materials: Nanoe unveils a line of dielectric filaments for radiofrequency applications

Materials producer Nanoe announces the development of a new portfolio of materials: Zetamix Epsilon. The new series contains 3 filaments, each one with different permittivity...

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