Autodesk and ANSYS Acquire Composite Simulation Software Providers

摘要

Dassault Systemes offers composite simulation as partofits CATIA 3D Experience platform, and Siemens PLM Software made an aggressive play to address simulation of composite materials with its 2011 acquisition of Vistagy, which has a huge following in the aerospace sector. Now jumping into the fray is Autodesk and ANSYS. Autodesk, which has already built out a pretty robust simulation software portfolio via its acquisitions of Algor (for finite element analysis, or FEA, capabilities), Blue Ridge Numerics (for computational fluid dynamics, or CFD, functionality), and MoldFlow (for injection-molding analysis).