June 2025
Partnership 🤝
Normally I send you news a little early. This time it’s a little later than the general public – but no less powerful. We’re doubling down on our partnership with Autodesk and are now selling bundles of the software to deliver a fully integrated solution from quoting through shipment.
This is a really big deal, and I didn’t make a big deal of it three months ago when we first announced the integration. It’s a big deal because bundles like this haven’t been available from multiple parties before. You can get them from Materialise, but then you’re locked into their ecosystem. With the Autodesk-Authentise toolkit you no longer have to weigh integration, convenience and choice.
The integrated experience is great: Not only can you use Autodesk’s new API’s to drive automation in the backend (like nesting builds) but you can also open each file or build in Fusion directly (and through it, in netfabb if you’re still working offline) to adjust things you care about manually, finetuning the supports for instance, and loading it right back into Authentise. It’s fluid, and now available as a discounted single package so you don’t have to keep on buying things separately.
On top of that you get choice. It costs you no more to tie in another algorithm to do complete any of the tasks that Autodesk could. If a new startup is better at tool for toolpathing, for instance, you can just ask them to integrate using our open API’s.
This collaboration is not just about a partnership, or a better product. It’s a better approach. An entirely new way of engaging with engineering solutions. One that works for everybody.
Of course the partnership doesn’t mean that we’re not continuing to iterate, improve, and extend our own solutions. For instance materials management which got a general revamp of UX this month: Users now have improved guides through the Material Actions to help them complete their flows smoothly and we have made it easier than ever to understand and trace the composition of some batch of material back to its parent lots.
We’re heading into the heat of summer but the team is not slowing down. There’s more grants that have just been announced (DECSAM with Airbus, AMS, GKN and others – announced here) and others to follow, along with more partnerships, features and customers. We keep pushing, as we have for the last 13 years!!