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HOOPS Publish is a software toolkit that can be integrated into your application to provide a rich 3D PDF publishing capability. 3D PDF documents produced using HOOPS Publish can include a range of graphics, data and dynamic interactive 3D content that significantly enriches the communication of intent through the design and manufacturing supply chain.

HOOPS Publish uniquely provides you with the same native 3D PDF technology as used in Adobe® Acrobat® and Adobe Reader®, so 3D PDF documents produced using HOOPS Publish can be distributed and guaranteed to be viewed using the standard Adobe Reader, available on 98% of internet-enabled desktops worldwide. HOOPS Publish 3D PDF documents also take advantage of the security features of the Adobe document management technology, ensuring your built-in document production capability has the most secure distribution of any documentation system.

Across the manufacturing and construction industries, both individual users and enterprises recognize the benefits of 3D PDF and are widely adopting it within their engineering document workflows. Tech Soft 3D is a founding member of the 3D PDF Consortium, an organization comprised of developers, software vendors, end users, and standards and governmental organizations, dedicated to the ongoing development of 3D PDF and PRC as open standards. By integrating HOOPS Publish into your application, your products can be easily enabled to deliver native-readable 3D PDF documents.

HOOPS Publish is uniquely based on the native Adobe® technologies and is the only software toolkit that offers access to the native 3D read and write technology used within Acrobat® Reader®. The 3D PDF format is an open, data-rich and secure solution for sharing and archiving 3D data. By integrating HOOPS Publish in your own application, you can simply generate 3D PDF documents that can be read by the vast majority of the world's desktops. That's building with the best.

How can HOOPS Publish benefit you?

• Reads a range of standard format 3D data files.
• Allows publication of rich 3D PDF documents.
• Provides a range of purpose-built 3D PDF templates.
• Uniquely provides access to native PDF libraries with no need for extra licensing.
• Allows interaction with 3D data within the 3D PDF document.

HOOPS Publish provides a purpose-built publishing API built on top of the native PDF libraries from Adobe® with no need for extra licensing. Using the publishing API, software development teams can easily add simple or complex document output capabilities into existing applications.

Using HOOPS Publish, developers can read source 3D data from a range of industry-standard formats including STEP, STL, U3D, PRC and VRML and publish the data to a 3D PDF file in either U3D format or Adobe’s preferred PRC format. 3D PDF is in the process of becoming the standardized 3D file format within PDF/E (Engineering) through ISO (International Standardization Organization). The advantage of the PRC format is to provide highly accurate and highly compressed format for describing 3D CAD models including Assembly Structure, B-Rep, Geometry and product manufacturing information (PMI). 

Using HOOPS Publish, developers are able to:

• Provide PDF templates to create more advanced, interactive 3D PDFs. Templates contain pre-defined objects, populated with user-defined data.
• Customize the generic elements of the PDF page including title, logo, 3D window position, page type, page orientation and paper color.
• Use Adobe Acrobat Pro to generate new custom templates for clients.
• Include poster generation for the 3D window to ensure all 3D PDF documents have an equivalent 2D representation.
• Embed Javascript in the PDF document to build unique interaction elements.
• Generate 3D animations using Javascript.
• Add further information such as annotations to the 3D data.
• Incorporate true Adobe Acrobat password security for document protection.
• Add file attachments to PDF documents.
• Access and read the 3D data within an existing 3D PDF file.

Import Formats (from within an application)

HOOPS Publish is designed as a publishing solution only. If CAD import is required directly into your application, you must license HOOPS Exchange. 

Export Formats

HOOPS Publish is available on 32 and 64-bit Windows platforms:

Platforms

Using HOOPS Publish together with source PDF template files, an almost limitless range of 3D PDF documents can be created. Below are a few examples showing different approaches to delivering rich 3D information for the design and manufacturing process:

Example: Crank Arm with Complex PMI (PDF, 5.1Mb)
 

Example: Animated Disassembly of Landing Gear (PDF, 4.7Mb)
 

Example: Mouse with Multi-View Components (PDF, 2.8Mb)
 

Example: Simple Part with Complicated PMI (PDF, 5.1Mb)
 

Example: Drinks Can Product with Multi-Views (PDF, 2.1Mb)
 

Example: Sports Car with Multi-Views (PDF, 9.1Mb)

HOOPS Publish is available in two different configurations of product:

HOOPS Publish Lite provides functionality for reading a range of standard format files from within your application and publishing to a PDF document or provided PDF template. Software application developers who currently provide output to common 3D data formats can easily integrate HOOPS Publish Lite into their applications with a minimum of additional code to add a rich 3D PDF publishing capability to their products.

HOOPS Publish Advanced provides the functionality of the Lite product and additionally offers direct API access to the underlying 3D PDF libraries allowing the application to create or modify 3D data or add attribute information including PMI data.

HOOPS Publish integrates with Adobe's Acrobat Pro Bundle and PDF Library SDK for expanded 3D PDF options within your application.

The Adobe PDF Library gives you full access to the complete set of native PDF API's to further customize and enhance your HOOPS Publish-generated 3D PDF files.

With Acrobat Pro Bundle, you can ship a full seat of Adobe Acrobat X Pro alongside your application, generating new revenue streams and encouraging upgrades with an all-in-one product. Your customers can enhance, manage and securely share data through 3D PDF as well as create custom PDF templates for use in your application's PDF publishing.

For each Tech Soft 3D product, licensing and license fees are designed to provide excellent value, helping developers spend their R&D funds efficiently and quickly deliver successful products to market. Specific license fees vary depending on the Tech Soft 3D products and modules required, the level of service and support desired, end-user seat volumes, operating business model, etc.

We would be glad to arrange a consultation with a member of our Business Development team to review your specific project and provide detailed licensing information based on your own requirements. To arrange your consultation please contact us today.