The Swedish company announced this in relation to its construction solutions portfolio for AEC (architecture, engineering, construction), but it could conceivably have relevance to other Hexagon activities.
Writes Jeff Rowe of www10.mcadcafe.com: “On the mechanical side, the Bricsys acquisition by Hexagon could be a nice fit and complement with metrology (Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence), CAM (Vero Software), simulation (MSC Software), and sheet metal design (Forming Technologies)." Vero's software portfolio includes sheet metal suite Radan, of course. Read Rowe's full report here.