Mumbai, Nov. 14 -- Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Atlas 3D,

Inc, a Plymouth, Indiana-based developer of software that works with direct

metal laser sintering (DMLS) printers to provide automatically design engineers

with the optimal print orientation and requisite support structures for

additive parts in near real-time. Atlas 3D will join Siemens Digital Industries

Software, where its solutions will expand additive manufacturing capabilities

in the Xcelerator portfolio of software.

Atlas 3D's Sunata software is a graphics processing

unit (GPU)-accelerated high-performance computing additive manufacturing

software solution that can deliver results up to hundred times faster than other

build simulation solutions in the m...