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Siemens Atlas3D
With Atlas3D, designers and manufacturing engineers can quickly gain insights into the optimal part build orientation in order to minimize supports, distortion, effort to remove supports, part material, and printing time.
Siemens is to acquire additive manufacturing software developer Atlas3D after an agreement was signed between the two companies.
Atlas3D’s Sunata cloud-based software has been developed to automatically select the best orientation of part designs and generate the necessary support structures for the part to be printed. Subsequent to the Siemens acquisition, which is due to be completed this month, Atlas3D will join Siemens Digital Industries Software where it will help to expand the capabilities of the company’s Xcelerator portfolio.
Sunata uses thermal distortion analysis to gain insights into the optimal build orientation and reduce the number of supports required to ensure the successful printing of a part. This feature enables the designer to perform the simulations, rather than analyst, and helps to reduce the downstream analysis that needs to be conducted via Siemens’ Simcenter software. The Sunata platform also promises the turnaround of simulation analysis results much quicker than other simulation tools and helps users get the build right at the first time of asking.
Siemens plans to make the Atlas3D software available through its online Additive Manufacturing Network and believes the acquisition of the company can help to ‘industrialise’ its customers’ use of 3D printing technology.
“We welcome Atlas3D to the Siemens community as the newest member of our additive manufacturing team,” commented Zvi Feuer, Senior Vice President, Manufacturing Engineering Software at Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Our solutions industrialise additive manufacturing for large enterprises, 3D printing service bureaus, design firms and CAD designers. The cloud-based Sunata software makes it easy for designers to determine the optimal way to 3D print parts for high quality and repeatability. The combination of Sunata with the robust CAE additive manufacturing tools in Simcenter enables a ‘right first time’ approach for industrial 3D printing.”
“Siemens is a leader in additive manufacturing, with the most integrated and functionally robust solutions in the industry, so we are excited to join the team,” added Chad Barden, CEO at Atlas 3D. “The power of Sunata is that it quips designers to more easily design parts that are printable, which helps companies more quickly realise the benefits of additive manufacturing. As part of Siemens, we look forward to introducing Sunata to customers who already have Siemens’ AM solutions and can achieve new efficiencies in their front-end design-for-additive process, as well as companies who have yet to start their additive manufacturing journey.”
