Stratasys Expands GrabCAD Software Partner Program for Additive Manufacturing

Stratasys has expanded its GrabCAD Software Partner Program with new partners Oqton and Riven. Oqton is a cloud-based manufacturing operating system company based in Ghent, Belgium, and Riven provides 3D reality intelligence for digital manufacturing, based in Berkeley, California. The new partners integrate with the GrabCAD Additive Manufacturing (AM) Platform, adding manufacturing operating system and new product introduction 3D workflow software options for Stratasys customers.

The partner program is part of the GrabCAD AM Platform, which integrates GrabCAD applications and third-party GrabCAD Software Partners via the GrabCAD Software Development Kit (SDK). The open and enterprise-ready platform is said to enable two-way connectivity between 3D printers, AM and enterprise applications, and broader Industry 4.0 infrastructure.

“New GrabCAD Software partners give us the ability to grow the numbers of technologies available through the GrabCAD AM Platform and allows us to support our customers’ goals by creating a connected ecosystem that supports additive manufacturing at scale,” says Paul Giaconia, Stratasys’ vice president of software products.

Oqton is said to provide users with a machine-agnostic, cloud-based software platform that leverages artificial intelligence to automate repetitive tasks and utilizes intelligent IoT capabilities to automate the end-to-end AM workflow across and beyond the production floor, including order tracking, scheduling, latticing, build preparation and slicing. The solution, purposely built for AM, is said to enable users to easily create live dashboards and automated reports to optimize their manufacturing process so their product can go to market quicker.

Riven is an open cloud software company specializing in 3D reality intelligence that accelerates volume production of high-accuracy, end-use additive manufactured parts. The company says its software uses 3D reality data from scanners and proprietary algorithms to enable engineering and manufacturing teams to cut iterations and time-to-part while improving the customer experience. Riven has introduced Warp-Adapted-Model (WAM) capability, which is said to enable printed production parts across AM technologies (including FDM, powder bed fusion and stereolithography) to be 2 to 10 times more accurate than parts printed from CAD. WAM scales from singular high-value parts to series production and enables new end-use applications, the company says.