The company’s extensive background in 3D printing stems from management’s experience in selling competitive 3D printers from 2004 until the establishment of dddrop in 2012. That experience demonstrated the pros and cons of existing 3D printers and set dddrop on the path to making better performing, more-effective 3D printers, according to CEO Alfred Uytdewilligen. “The team used different machines for many years but could never find the perfect balance between quality and price,” Uytdewilligen explains. “We wanted an industrial 3D printer that is built for professional use, but is also affordable.”
“The 3DEXPERIENCE platform represents an entirely new way of working that has allowed us to reshape the company to support greater collaboration, innovation, and productivity,” Uytdewilligen says. “It’s much more than a development platform. It’s a product launching platform in which not everybody is using a SOLIDWORKS seat. Instead, each person has access to the tools and portions of the process that affect them. In essence, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform stretches out the SOLIDWORKS portfolio for use in collaborative spaces in the cloud.