Today, designers and manufacturers typically need to use multiple tools along with 3D CAD software to design, optimize and validate parts for 3D printing. This can be a cumbersome, inefficient, and sometimes a disconnected process that makes it difficult to accurately produce the final manufactured part. It may necessitate additional efforts and increase time and resources.

The goal of the integrated solution is to define and deliver design for additive manufacturing. This is the ability to seamlessly create, optimize, validate and produce parts through the additive manufacturing process.

Source: PTC and Stratasys Ltd.