In November 2017 it was announced that ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS), a key player inthe engineering simulation software space, had acquired 3DSIM. The acquisition of 3DSIM gives ANSYS the industry's only complete additive manufacturing simulation workflow. 3DSIM develops simulation software for metal Additive Manufacturing - tools designed to 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
