Helping design and engineering professionals discover, evaluate and specify technologies and processes that shorten the design cycle and enable success.
May 2026 Special Focus: Artificial Intelligence in Design and Simulation
In this Special Focus Issue, learn about the latest developments in the integration of artificial intelligence into engineering workflows.
April 2026 Special Focus Issue: Generative Design
In this Special Focus Issue, Digital Engineering takes a look at how generative design solutions can be used across different types of design problems and with a variety of manufacturing approaches to accelerate design space exploration, and…
Intergraph Corporation (Huntsville, AL), a provider of spatial information management (SIM) software, announced it had acquired Alias Ltd. (Manchester, England), a provider of piping design automation software.
Alias' flagship product, ISOGEN, provides automatic piping isometricdrawing generation capability to 3D plant design and shipbuildingsoftware users. In addition, Alias' products, I-Sketch for theindividual generation of isometrics and SPOOLGEN for the generation offabrication spool drawings, are said to be leading solutions in their domains.I-Route, a new product, provides the ability to automatically routepipes within a 3D model based on cost optimization techniques. Aliashas been an Intergraph OEM partner since 1993.
No financial details of the acquisition were released. For more information, visit intergraph.com.
Sources: Press materials received from the company.
DE's editors contribute news and new product announcements to Digital Engineering. Press releases may be sent to them via [email protected].
Follow DE
Join over 90,000 engineering professionals who get fresh engineering news as soon as it is published.
About Us · Contact Us · Editorial Team · Advertising · Privacy Policy · Subscriber Services · © 2026 Digital Engineering 24/7 · Peerless Media