TLDR: Synera and Materialise have announced a strategic collaboration to embed Synera’s AI agents directly into Materialise’s Magics SDK. This integration aims to automate and streamline additive manufacturing build preparation, enabling autonomous design-to-print tasks, reducing manual effort, and significantly cutting operational costs and production time.
In a significant advancement for the additive manufacturing sector, Synera and Materialise have forged a partnership to introduce advanced AI agent capabilities into the build preparation process. The collaboration, announced on July 22, 2025, focuses on establishing direct connectivity between Materialise’s industry-leading Magics SDK and Synera’s innovative agentic AI platform for engineers.
Additive manufacturing organizations frequently grapple with substantial production time losses due to labor-intensive, manual build preparation workflows. This human intervention not only inflates operational costs but also limits throughput. The integration of Synera’s AI agents is poised to address these challenges by enabling autonomous handling of design-to-print tasks, thereby scaling production capacity while simultaneously reducing manual effort and associated costs.
Materialise Magics has been a cornerstone of additive manufacturing data and build preparation for over three decades, with its automated workflows widely adopted across AM facilities globally. The Magics SDK, launched in 2024, provides a robust framework for platform integration, offering powerful algorithms for automatic and manual repair of file errors, part orientation optimization, support generation, and slicing capabilities. These tools are crucial for preparing complex models for successful printing, minimizing build failures, and enhancing part quality.
Synera’s platform empowers engineering organizations to develop and deploy collaborative AI agents that act as specialized engineering experts. These agents augment human teams and autonomously manage product development tasks. The platform features an intuitive visual editor, allowing engineers to create automations ranging from simple tasks to intricate, end-to-end additive manufacturing workflows, leveraging multi-agent systems that seamlessly integrate with tools like Materialise’s Magics SDK.
The initial Materialise Magics SDK connector for Synera will offer comprehensive capabilities, including automated file repair and preparation directly from Synera, as well as the generation and customization of support structures. This integration is expected to facilitate the creation of end-to-end automation workflows for additive manufacturing, drastically reducing build failures and ensuring models are meticulously prepared before printing. When combined with other additive manufacturing solutions available in the Synera marketplace, users will be able to manage the entire AM workflow, from design to production, through connections to tools for nesting, build process simulation, and 3D AM machine software.
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Both Synera and Materialise view this collaboration as a pivotal step within a broader industry-wide initiative aimed at accelerating the adoption of additive manufacturing. Synera has also been recognized for its contributions to AI, having been nominated for the 2025 Best of Industry Award in the Artificial Intelligence category. The company’s AI agents are designed to streamline engineering processes, optimizing designs, reducing costs, and accelerating development across various applications, including design-to-cost, simulation, and manufacturing.
