3DSIM (Acquired by ANSYS, December 2017) Information

3DSIM develops the world's most powerful simulation software for metal Additive Manufacturing. The company is lead by CEO, Dr. Brent Stucker, a leading authority on AM for 25 years and a corporate team that boasts 100+ years of combined AM experience. 3DSIM’s software tools empower manufacturers, designers, materials scientists, and engineers, to achieve consistent success through simulation-driven innovation rather than physical trial-and-error. Customers include aerospace and automotive OEMs, AM parts manufacturers, metal AM machine manufacturers, universities and leading national & international labs. 3DSIM's product line includes: exaSIM - an easy-to-use, ultra-powerful tool developed specifically for machine operators and designers for AM manufactured parts. Enables unparalleled predictions of part shape, distortion and stress, automatic prediction of optimal support structures and distortion compensated STL files, alleviating the need for physical trial and error experimentation. FLEX - the most powerful metal AM simulation tool available, to enable engineering analysts, materials researchers, machine OEMs, and powder suppliers to dial in the best process parameters for a given machine and material combination, to achieve the highest level of part integrity, and to predict microstructure and properties before building the part.