Stratasys acquires inspection software maker Riven

3D printer manufacturer Stratasys Ltd., Eden Prairie, Minn., has acquired Riven, which provides quality assurance software.  

Riven’s Warp Adaptive Modeling software inspects, diagnoses and automatically corrects deviations between CAD files and actual 3D printed parts. A new version in testing uses artificial intelligence to pre-adjust the models automatically. 

The cloud-based program will now be integrated into Stratasys’ GrabCAD Additive Manufacturing Platform, allowing customers to scale adoption of additive manufacturing.  

“By integrating Riven’s offerings into our GrabCAD software platform, we will enable more manufacturing customers to adopt Stratasys solutions for end-use parts production,” Stratasys Vice President of Global Software Shaul Samara said in a statement. “This important functionality will help ensure production-scale parts are 3D printed accurately and can be inspected quickly within a closed-loop additive manufacturing process.”