Dassault Systèmes and Xometry Partnership to accelerate part production

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the West, Dassault Systèmes and Xometry announced during the 3DEXPERIENCE World event in Nashville, Tennessee that they would be partnering to provide customers with a seamless, integrated way to produce parts that accelerates the concept to manufacturing process. More concretely, this meant that users of Dassault Systèmes’ SOLIDWORKS and CATIA applications would be able to get immediate and automatic access to Xometry price quotes from Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace Make service. “We launched the MAKE Marketplace in 2018 to make it easy for customers to design and manufacture. Our partnership with Xometry takes this a step further,” explained Sébastien Massart, Head of Corporate Strategy for Dassault Systèmes.

Xometry, based in the US, was established seven years ago and has grown rapidly since into a leading on-demand manufacturing provider. When it launched, it aimed to solve two primary problems: offering fast and easy manufacturing solutions for product designers, engineers and company purchasing managers; as well as connecting machine shops to customers. Today, Xometry’s extensive network of over 5,000 manufacturing partners worldwide is one of the largest in the world, providing all types of manufacturing technologies: injection molding, CNC machining, 3D printing, and more.

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In its last equity funding round in September, Xometry brought in an additional $75 million, thus bringing total funding to $193 million. Xometry has also expanded its reach outside of the US; it acquired German company Shift in 2019, which it identified as having a strong supply chain. Today, Xometry counts 2,000 partners in European countries; its Xometry Europe branch is based in Munich.