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?

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...

MakerVerse raises €9.4 Million Series A Funding to Expand On-Demand (Additive) Manufacturing

That seems like minutes ago that MakerVerse debuted on the AM industry. The joint-venture of Siemens Energy, metrology expert ZEISS, and financial/venture capital investors, including 9.5 ventures provides on-demand AM services. Since their official launch, the...

Oqton and Baker Hughes want to accelerate the design and production of 3D printed parts. Here is how.

Software provider Oqton and energy technology company Baker Hughues, sign a partnership to develop an industrial digital ecosystem for the manufacture of products across highly regulated industries such as energy, aerospace, and healthcare. Both companies...

Autodesk to integrate Rosswag’s LPBF process parameter marketplace into Fusion 360

Last year, engineering company Rosswag announced the development of AddiMap, an LPBF process parameter marketplace. Today, the company announced it has joined forces with software provider Autodesk to integrate the marketplace into Fusion 360,...

More about Materialise Process Control software for metal 3D printing and its collaboration with Phase3D

AMUG saw a number of collaborations between Materialise and other companies. Besides the work they are achieving with Sigma Additive Solutions, the software company will also work on the integration of Phase 3D’s solution...

Sigma Additive Solutions and Materialise to enables Real-Time Process Monitoring for Metal 3D Printing

Early at the beginning of this year, Sigma Additive Solutions, a provider of quality assurance software, joined forces with software company Materialise to identify and correct metal 3D printing build issues in real-time. Both...

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