Desktop Metal Set to Transform Continuous Fiber 3D Printing
Desktop Metal, the company committed to making 3D printing accessible to engineers and manufacturers, announces the launch of Fiber™, the world’s first desktop 3D printer to fabricate high resolution parts with industrial grade continuous fiber composite materials used in automated fiber placement (AFP) processes. Based on a new process called micro automated fiber placement (μAFP), users can now print parts with a superior level of strength and stiffness, and in a broad range of materials, that traditionally required million dollar AFP systems.
Funds will accelerate development of aPriori's cloud applications and manufacturing cost simulations and extend global footprint to support customers' worldwide operations.
SOLIDWORKS Sell Expands Augmented Reality Capabilities for Android Users
Augmented reality (AR) combines the technology of a camera and software to superimpose 3D objects into a real-life environment in real time. SOLIDWORKS Sell has utilized this interactive technology and has expanded its AR capabilities to Android users with the help of Google’s ARCore. Now, even more people get to have fun customizing and viewing products in their own homes.
World Economic Forum Selects Onshape as a 2019 “Technology Pioneer”
Onshape, the leading cloud product development platform for design and manufacturing teams, has been selected as one of the world’s 56 most promising “Technology Pioneers” by the World Economic Forum. Onshape speeds up product development with an all-in-one system combining CAD, release management, workflow, collaboration, analytics, admin tools, and an API with more than 50 engineering applications.
Fusion 360 Gets Stronger and Smarter With a New Manufacturing Extension and Cost Insights for Generative Design
Fusion 360 wouldn’t be what it is today without our customers. They use it to design and make incredible things, from lightweight motorcycle swingarms to powerful industrial processing equipment. As a cloud-based manufacturing ecosystem, it also wouldn’t grow without our customers, which is why we’re excited to announce three new sets of capabilities—capabilities that we’ve designed and implemented as a direct response to our customers’ needs.
Aras and Modelon Announce Strategic Collaboration for Integrated System Modeling to Support Enterprise MBSE in the Digital Thread
Aras, the only resilient platform provider for digital industrial applications, today announced a strategic collaboration with their partner, Modelon, an industry leader in model-based systems engineering (MBSE). This will enable customers to incorporate and utilize the globally-used, open standard systems modelling language, Modelica. Aras extends its vision for Simulation Management and mixed-fidelity simulation using a systems-centric, unified data model across all levels of model fidelity, physics and disciplines. Aras provides tool-agnostic simulation automation to meet the demanding simulation needs for connected multidisciplinary products.
AMC Bridge’s latest technology demonstration, Similar Parts Search, explores how combining artificial intelligence (AI) with advanced 3D geometric processing can address these challenges and improve the discovery, reuse, and evaluation of structurally similar parts across engineering workflows.
Engineering and manufacturing organizations continue to face challenges when managing large repositories of 3D models, including manual shape comparison, inconsistent similarity assessments, and the time‑consuming navigation of extensive part libraries. Traditional CAD search and manual similarity methods rely heavily on metadata, naming conventions, or subjective human judgment—approaches that do not scale and often produce inconsistent results.
AMC Bridge’s latest technology demonstration, Similar Parts Search, explores how combining artificial intelligence (AI) with advanced 3D geometric processing can address these challenges and significantly improve the discovery, reuse, and evaluation of structurally similar parts across engineering workflows. By leveraging learned geometric representations of 3D models, the POC enables consistent, geometry‑aware similarity detection across large repositories, independent of how parts are named or categorized.
When the founders of AMC Bridge formed our company a quarter century ago, we wanted to help clients with digital transformation – but we realized that technical know-how alone wasn’t enough. We had to develop a deep understanding of our customers – their ambitions, their competition, their existential challenges. What we’ve learned from hundreds of clients while engineering their software ecosystems holds true across enterprises. To move decisively, modern organizations need a secure, open platform that connects data, automates high-value work, and gives stakeholders clear, current context for their next moves.
As software vendors modernize their 3D platforms, transitioning to a reliable and widely adopted geometry kernel becomes essential for improving modeling accuracy, streamlining development, and accelerating innovation. To support organizations on this journey, Siemens Digital Industries Software and AMC Bridge hosted a joint webinar focused on Parasolid implementation. Discover how vendors can speed up product development by leveraging a PLM Components–based ecosystem and collaborating with engineering teams experienced in advanced geometry workflows.
