Build with the Best

If your application can produce 3D PDF files, many of your users may need to engage in more advanced workflows involving collaborative mark-up, design review, bid generation, PLM documentation and manufacturing instruction generation using Acrobat X Pro.

Through Tech Soft 3D's unique Acrobat Pro Bundle program, you can now offer your customers an all-in-one, high-value package for customers that require sophisticated collaboration and security features for their 3D PDF files.

Generate new revenue streams and encourage upgrades, while providing your users a complete solution for enhancing, managing, publishing and securely sharing data through PDF. In addition, users can take advantage of Acrobat X Pro's template creation functionality to generate custom PDF templates for publishing from directly within your application.

Using the Acrobat Pro Bundle, you can develop software that integrates with Acrobat and Adobe Reader in several ways:

• JavaScript — Write scripts, either in an individual PDF document or externally, to extend the functionality of Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
• Plug-ins — Create plug-ins that are dynamically linked to and extend the functionality of Acrobat.
• Interapplication Communication — Write a separate application process that uses interapplication communication (IAC) to control Acrobat functionality. DDE and OLE are supported on Microsoft® Windows®, and Apple events/AppleScript on Mac OS®. IAC is not available on UNIX®.

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.

HOOPS Publish is the only SDK that gives your application the power to publish rich, interactive 3D PDF documents with the same native technology used by Adobe® to create and consume 3D PDF files. Data generated with HOOPS Publish has guaranteed compatibility with Adobe applications, including the free, ubiquitous Adobe Reader®, installed on over 98% of internet-connected computers globally.

3D PDF is not just popular, it's also powerful, capable of sharing data with the greatest accuracy and compression, including assembly instruction, B-rep, geometry and PMI, alongside other vital information including text, tables, images and more. As your technology partner, we'll provide you with easy-to-use API's including pre-built templates, and the assistance to smoothly integrate HOOPS Publish into your application.

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 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 into their applications with a minimum of additional code to add a rich 3D PDF publishing capability to their products. HOOPS Publish also 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.

The Adobe® PDF Library is a low-level library containing a powerful set of C/C++ APIs that enable applications to publish rich, collaborative PDF documents. Using the Adobe PDF Library, systems integrators, ISVs and enterprise IT developers can create products with highly customized PDF output, across a variety of platforms.

The Adobe PDF Library provides a consistent, accurate and supported imple®mentation of the latest Adobe PDF specification. Data generated from your application is instantly portable into a variety of workflows throughout the manufacturing and construction industries, available to desktops around the globe via Acrobat® and the free Adobe Reader®.

The Adobe PDF Library can also be combined with HOOPS Publish to produce 3D PDF files with more advanced capabilities.

The Adobe® PDF Library is based on the native technology of Adobe Acrobat software and offers complete functionality for generating, manipulating, rendering, and printing Adobe PDF documents.
The Adobe® PDF Library enables Adobe PDF functionality to be seamlessly embedded within applications, including server-based applications. It also provides reliable, accurate, and Adobe-supported implementation of the latest PDF specification. The SDK includes many features such as: Create, Edit, Fonts, Assemble document, Compress, Security Features.

• Full Compatibility with Acrobat X
• Support for Windows platforms (32- and 64- bit)
• Support for Linux 64 bit platforms
• Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) Compliance
• Improved editing of PDFs and reduce content loss
• Better precision APIs while editing PDFs
• Rendering large pages with better precision
• Removed 27 spot color limitation in print workflow
• Improved print output to bring it closer to Acrobat
• Core dynamic Libraries and Header files provided
• Complete documentation, including an application programming interface (API)
• Reference guide
• Fonts
• 16 completely functional solution samples

• Microsoft Windows® (32- and 64-bit)
• Macintosh (32- and 64-bit)
• Sun™ Solaris™(SPARC 32- and 64-bit, x86 32- and 64-bit)
• Linux® (32- and 64-bit)
• IBM® AIX® (32- and 64-bit)
• HP-UX (Itanium and PA RISC, 32- and 64-bit)
• SGI IRIX

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.

The Autodesk RealDWG® toolkit is the only solution to bring full read and write capability of the latest, native DWG™ and DXF™ file formats into your application.

Quickly and accurately build DWG compatibliity into your application with the same software libraries used in AutoCAD®, Autodesk VIZ, AutoCAD Revit® and Autodesk Inventor® for maximum portability.

And with easy and cost-effective licensing terms, it's now easier than ever to make your application appeal to the millions of users who create, manage and share design data using DWG.

• Use the native DWG libraries
• High level of confidence when sharing design data.
• Be sure that you can always access the most up-to-date format produced by AutoCAD and AutoCAD-based products.
• Interpret custom objects seamlessly with built-in object enablers.
• Reliability and Fidelity

• Available for C++ and .Net development (C# to be confirmed)
• Read/write DWG including read and write support for the AutoCAD 2000-2013 releases (as well as R14), drawing enhancements now available with AutoCAD 2013 and read and write support for Visual Studio 2010
• Read/write DXF r12 and newer as well

For 32-Bit RealDWG 2013

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 Enterprise, Ultimate, or Professional edition, Microsoft® Windows Vista® Enterprise, Business, or Ultimate edition (SP2 or higher), or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional edition (SP3)
• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® dual-core processor, 3 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology, or Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
• 2 GB RAM
• 350 MB free disk space for installation
• Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 (SP1) development system for C/C++ development; Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 for managed development
• Available on CD

Note: Development of RealDWG® 32-bit software on a 64-bit Windows operating system is supported; however, deployment of 32-bit software on a 64-bit system is not supported.

For 64-Bit RealDWG 2013

• Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate edition, Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, or Ultimate edition (SP2 or later), or Windows XP Professional edition (SP2 or later)
• AMD Athlon or AMD Opteron® processor with SSE2 technology, or Intel Pentium 4 or Intel® Xeon® processor with Intel EM64T support with SSE2 technology
• 2 GB RAM
• 425 MB free disk space for installation
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (SP1) for C/C++ development; Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 for managed development 
• Available on CD

Note: RealDWG 64-bit software cannot be installed on a 32-bit Windows operating system.

Please note that to license RealDWG® approval must be granted by Autodesk. All applications are reviewed and considered on a case-by-case basis by Autodesk. The application form is available from this website and should be returned to info@techsoft3d.com

Once this application is approved, Tech Soft 3D will be providing with a contract to review and sign.

For information on licensing RealDWG®, please contact us here.

Developed by Siemens PLM Software, Parasolid is the world-leading geometric modeler for delivering innovative 3D solutions. Parasolid powers advanced solid, freeform surface and sheet, and generalized cellular modeling and interrogation for CAD, CAM and CAE products across the product lifecycle.

Applications built with Parasolid gain the power of world-leading, easy-to-use and cost-effective exact boundary representation. Access over 800 API functions, give your customers the portability of Parasolid’s popular XT file format, and boost the overall appeal of your product.

When you license Parasolid, you join a community of both high-end and mid-range developers who rely on its exacting performance and accuracy – including Siemens PLM Software. Over a million quality checks are performed daily, and to date, over 850 man-years of R&D have been invested in keeping the 3.5 million plus seats of Parasolid-based software robust and accurate.

Parasolid® component software is the world’s premier 3D geometric modeling kernel technology, selected by leading application vendors and end-user organizations spanning multiple industries as their preferred platform for delivering innovative 3D solutions with unparalleled modeling power and versatility.

Parasolid is tightly integrated with both HOOPS Exchange and HOOPS Visualize. It can be licensed on its own or together with these additional industry-leading toolkits to offer a complete, world-class platform of cooperative engineering software components for your applications development.

• Provides an ideal core for innovative 3D modeling application development.
• Reduces development costs and risks by providing a proven 3D modeling solution.
• Ensures state-of-the-art quality and robustness.
• Offers world-class technical support for rapid time-to-market.
• Enables instant compatibility with other Parasolid-based applications through translation-free exchange of 3D data solutions.
• Used in over 3.5 million seats of application software globally.
• Approximately 45 percent of 3D CAD models embed Parasolid’s native XT representation.
• Over 850 man-years of R&D investment.
• Provides industry-leading robustness with over a million quality tests run daily.

Parasolid is built on foundation capabilities that enable it to be deployed successfully in a wide variety of software applications. Parasolid’s foundation capabilities include:

• Tolerant modeling for intrinsically reliable modeling with imported data.
• Attributes and callbacks for application-specific characteristics and behavior.
• Session and partitioned rollback for flexible history and undo/redo implementation.
• Data management and tracking for managing models and associated data as they evolve.
• Symmetric multi-processing support for optimal performance on multi-processor machines.
• Model storage in forwards and backwards compatible native XT format.
• .NET Binding to integrate Parasolid into .NET applications written in C#.
• Broad platform coverage including comprehensive support for Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac.

In addition to these foundation capabilities there are a wealth of further features available depending on the level of Parasolid licensing selected: Communicator, Editor or Designer. Details of which functionality is available in which package are in the Product Functionality table in this section.

There is additionally the option of licensing Parasolid Bodyshop, which offers advanced healing, geometry repair and model clean-up capabilities.

Developed and used by Siemens PLM, Parasolid is found in multiple high-end and leading mid-range CAD/CAM/CAE products. Tech Soft 3D licenses Parasolid in three different commercial packages: Designer, Editor and Communicator. The functional scope and typical application at each level are outlined below, and the Product Functionality table in this section summarizes the corresponding functionality. In addition there is a further optional package for advanced healing of models.

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.

Available soon, exclusively from Tech Soft 3D, the Autodesk® Inventor® OEM development platform enables developers to build custom applications with the Inventor advanced modeling platform.

With the easy-to-use Inventor Wizard, load your plugins into new applications and create a custom look and feel with one-of-a-kind UI elements, icons, naming, branding and pricing. The result is an application uniquely yours, built on the proven power of  Autodesk Inventor.

You will also become an important Autodesk partner, introducing your application into the broader Autodesk application ecosystem and driving sales growth.

Autodesk Inventor OEM is a development platform that allows you to create a stand-alone application built on Autodesk Inventor technology. The benefit of using Inventor OEM over writing an application that runs in Inventor is that you can package your application with Inventor OEM and deliver it as your own application. Your customers don't need to know that it is based on Inventor since it is installed using your installer, licensed with your licensing, and is branded as your product (application name, splash screen, and various other icons), save the "Powered By Autodesk Inventor" graphic in the zero-document state.

You can choose to include Inventor commands as-is or create your own commands. To create a custom application using Inventor OEM use the Inventor API and supply your functionality through an add-in.

Autodesk Inventor OEM is essentially Inventor with additional capabilities as detailed below:

• It is modular. Your application might only need to use the 'part function'. With Inventor OEM you can choose which components to install; 'part' only, 'part' and 'assembly', or 'part', 'assembly', and 'drawing' for example.
• The branding is configurable so you can define your own application name, splash screen, application icons, executable name, etc.
• It is independent of Inventor with regards to shared files and registry entries. This means it can be installed on a machine that has Inventor or another OEM application.
• It is independent of Autodesk licensing, allowing you to control the licensing.

Sketching

Evaluate different design ideas before creating detailed part and assembly models. Using the Inventor OEM sketch environment, you can quickly capture design ideas as versatile 2D layouts. Combining the power of constraints with easy-to-use tools for modifying sketches lets you try different design concepts and control color and line style, allowing you to find the best way to convey your design ideas.

Advanced Shape Description

Create a wide range of complex geometries by easily combining solids and surfaces. Inventor OEM gives you precise control of shape characteristics such as tangency and continuity. Advanced modeling tools include Loft to a Point, N-Sided Patch, Sweep Normal to Surface, Area Loft, Centerline Loft, G2 Continuous Fillets, Full Round Fillets, and Face-to-Face Fillets

Sculpt Tool

Quickly and easily modify shape details using surfaces from Inventor OEM or by incorporating imported surfaces. Construct 3D part geometry from a closed set of surfaces, and incorporate imported surface data into the model using the Sculpt tool to modify existing parts by adding or removing material.

Assembly Design

Quickly assemble individual parts and subassemblies to define the complete product structure. Verify that your product can be assembled. Insert and position new components in the assembly, using constraints to capture the positional relationships that define fixed and moving components.

Large Assembly Performance

Realize the benefits of 3D design when developing very large assemblies. Native shrinkwrap gives you the ability to manage large assemblies by converting sub-assemblies into simplified part models or lightweight surface models. With level of detail (LOD) representations, you can switch between full and lightweight representations to control memory consumption and increase performance. A large assembly “capacity meter” shows you how much memory is available.

Assembly Configurations

Easily design and document product families using assembly configurations to define variations from a master assembly. Exclude or substitute individual components and make changes to dimension and constraint values. Document the whole part or assembly configuration using the Table tool, which automatically creates the parameter table in a 2D drawing.

Plastic Part Design

Functional plastic features, rule-based fillets and powerful multi-body workflows simplify the design of high-quality molded part models.

Molded Part Definition

Make sure molded parts meet aesthetic guidelines for the position of parting lines while supporting cost-effective manufacturing requirements. Divide the 3D component to define the molded parts, using tools to identify silhouette curves for optimum parting plane geometry and multibody operations that make it easy to split the part into separate bodies.

Sheet Metal Styles

Generate flat patterns that accurately reflect your manufacturing capabilities. Control sheet metal unfolding with styles that define the material thickness, bend rules, and corner reliefs. To control the unfolding geometry, Inventor software supports linear unfolding, custom unfold equations, and custom bend tables.

Inventor OEM includes the iLogic™ module, which extends and enhances the parametric design capabilities of Inventor OEM, automates tedious design tasks, and adds higher levels of design intelligence to the production of digital prototypes. With easy-to-use authoring capabilities and an intuitive user interface, Inventor OEM iLogic integrates seamlessly with Inventor OEM.

Using Inventor iLogic you can:

• Create smart parts and assemblies that define multiple product configurations and make automatic updates in real-time based on logical relationships between design parameters such as mass, volume, dimensional values, material types, feature and component activation or suppression, patterns, and more.
• Simplify rules-based design with easy-to-use, clickable tools that any Inventor user working at the individual and engineering workgroup level can use – even those with little or no programming experience.
• Automate tedious design tasks by adding higher than ever before levels of intelligence to your digital prototypes.

A rules drive​n design solution

The iLogic module allows designers and engineers to capture and embed engineering and product knowledge directly into virtual models. iLogic introduces a design for reuse and automation methodology that is the next logical step in parametric modeling. Whereas parametric design allows the capturing of design intent, iLogic design in Inventor OEM allows the capture of design intelligence and offers the possibility for custom design of standard parts.

iLogic Highlights

• Uses the power of Autodesk Inventor to capture initial parametric design intent. iLogic is used to define the product behaviors, using logimetric rules, that result from changing the design input values.
• Provides easy access to powerful design automation functions through a simple, user-friendly interface designed for users with little or no programming experience.
• Lets users add knowledge to existing designs with full support for iparts and iassemblies. Rules can be added to any Inventor part or assembly model transforming it into a reusable knowledge asset.
• Extends Inventor’s parameter types to include Boolean, string and multi-value lists.
• Defines product behavior based on true or false input or property values, such as Material type, Mass or even custom properties.
• Allows design and engineering knowledge to be defined and stored as iLogic Rule objects that are embedded directly into the models. With iLogic there are no new documents to manage!
• Introduces a new way of capturing design intent that goes far beyond what can be achieved with only parametric design capability.

iLogic enables a rules-driven design for Inventor OEM by equipping CAD designers and CAD engineers with an easy-to-use solution seamlessly integrated into Inventor OEM.

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.

The AutoCAD® OEM  platform empowers developers to build highly customized, AutoCAD-based applications. Choose from the full range of powerful AutoCAD features to create and brand a product scaled to meet your customers' specific requirements and budget. Confidently develop your application upon a solid foundation heavily tested both in the lab and on the desktops of millions of users.

Whether you're an experienced plugin developer, or new to the AutoCAD platform, you'll be able to quickly develop and deploy an application that is functional, unique and 100% compatible with AutoCAD and DWG™.

• Get to market faster
• Possibility to self-brand, create/hide menus, modify commands, add/remove features
• Create a product that can read and write DWGTM  files
• Greatly customizable and flexible: your developers can create specific features to target niche markets or customer-specific requirements.
• Multi-level licensing allows you to deliver a cost-effective solution.
• Based on extremely reliable technology, used by over 4 million customers.
• Direct access to AutoCAD WS web and mobile applications allows your customers to view, edit and share designs from a web browser or mobile device

A product developed using AutoCAD® OEM software can provide customers with a subset of the complete AutoCAD®feature set, in addition to custom features created by the AutoCAD®OEM developer. You’re enabled to give users only the features they need in a customized environment, while benefiting from the robust Autodesk® technology which guarantees fidelity of DWG data and broad API access.

• AutoCAD OEM 2013 development platform supports ObjectARX® programming environment, Visual LISP®, ActiveX®, VBA programming environments, and the .NET Framework. It also supports the tools in standard AutoCAD software for customizing menus, toolbars and quick keys
• Provides encryption and binding security mechanisms that help prevent copying or reverse-engineering of your LISP and Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) software programs.
• Create host programs that run your AutoCAD OEM software development platform in a child window, Microsoft® Windows® .NET Form, or through a web page.
• Activation control enables your customers to interact with your AutoCAD OEM design software while remaining in the host program or browser.
• AutoCAD OEM MakeWizard is a graphical interface that makes it easy for you to create customization. Only the files required for your application are included in your product, shortening its build time and optimizing its size.
• Read DWG™ and DXF™ file formats for every version of AutoCAD® design software through AutoCAD 2013
• Write DWG files for AutoCAD software Release 14 or its later versions
• DXF files can be written back to AutoCAD software Release 12 version.
• Available for 32-bit and 64-Bit

Read:
DWG™ and DXF™:  Every version of AutoCAD® design software through AutoCAD 2013

Write:
DWG files for AutoCAD software Release 14, 2000, 2000i, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2013.
DXF files can be written back to AutoCAD software Release 12 version.

Development Interface:
ObjectARX® programming environment, Visual LISP®, ActiveX®, VBA programming environments, and the .NET Framework.

For 32-Bit AutoCAD OEM 2013

• Microsoft® Windows® 7 or Windows Vista® Enterprise, Business, or Ultimate edition (SP2 or later)
• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD® Athlon dual-core processor, 3.0 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
• 2 GB RAM
• 1.7 GB free disk space for installation
• 1 GB free disk space for development
• 1,024 x 768 display with true color
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later
• Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 (SP1) for C/C++ development; Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 for managed development
• DVD Drive

or

• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional edition (SP3 or later)
• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon dual-core, 1.6 GHz or higher with SSE2 technology
• 2 GB RAM
• 1.7 GB free disk space for installation
• 1 GB free disk space for development
• 1,024 x 768 display with true color
• Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
• Visual Studio 2008 (SP1) for C/C++ development; Visual Studio 2010 for managed development
• DVD Drive
   

For 64-Bit AutoCAD OEM 2013

• Windows 7 or Windows Vista (64-bit) Enterprise, Business, or Ultimate edition (SP1 or later) or Windows XP Professional x64 edition (SP2 or later)
• AMD® Athlon 64, Opteron® processor with SSE2 technology, Intel Pentium 4 or Xeon® processor with Intel EM64T support and SSE2 technology
• 2GB RAM
• 2 GB free disk space for installation
• 1 GB free disk space for development
• 1,024 x 768 display with true color
• Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
• Visual Studio 2008 (SP1) for C/C++ development; Visual Studio 2010 for managed development
• DVD Drive

Notes: AutoCAD® OEM 64-bit software cannot be installed on a 32-bit Windows operating system. AutoCAD OEM does not support Windows XP Home, Windows Vista Home Premium, or Windows Vista Home Basic as development platforms.

For more information on licensing AutoCAD OEM, please contact us here.

HOOPS Visualize is the industry’s most powerful, portable and complete graphics development toolkit for creating or enhancing 3D applications. HOOPS Visualize will help you accelerate the development of high-performance applications for desktop, cloud or mobile applications using the high-level graphics APIs that power over 250 successful applications.

When you license HOOPS Visualize, you enter into a strategic technology partnership. Our graphics experts serve as an extension of your R&D team, working towards our mutual success. The result is your application will look, behave and perform like it was built by a large team of true graphics experts  ̶  no matter the size of your development team. 

HOOPS Visualize also integrates with other powerful, portable toolkits, including HOOPS Exchange and HOOPS Publish, giving you a complete framework for full-spectrum application development covering file import, modification and publication for the desktop, cloud and mobile environments.

HOOPS Visualize offers an extensive and configurable feature set, essential for creating competitive and complex 3D software applications to meet the demands of today's advanced application users.

HOOPS Visualize provides a wealth of high-level APIs delivering a wide range of functionality that also insulates your application from the rapidly changing graphics landscape, protecting your development project from the underlying changes while taking full advantage of the most recent graphics capabilities. It fully leverages the latest GPU innovations via both OpenGL and Direct3D to deliver best-in-class performance and visual fidelity. Portability across all major platforms, rendering and hardcopy interfaces makes it easy for your software team to rapidly develop applications with no constraints on deployment. HOOPS Visualize is the only visualization platform with a history of driving leading commercial engineering software across the entire application industry.

How can HOOPS Visualize benefit you?

• Reduce project development costs.
• Earlier completion and faster time to market.
• Allows you to focus on your competitive value-add and core competencies.
• Deliver best-in-class user-interaction and application productivity.
• Create high competitive advantage for your applications.
• Develop applications on a robust and future-proof technology.

At its core, HOOPS Visualize provides a flexible, hierarchical scene-management engine capable of handling a range of graphics entities, together with a sophisticated graphics pipeline and high-performance graphics and interaction handling algorithms. It also delivers advanced capabilities to accelerate your application development, including an animation engine, clash detection, multi-plane sectioning, and large model visualization.

HOOPS Visualize offers a wide range of technical features, outlined below.

• Rich, flexible Scenegraph: 3D/2D, point clouds, text, images 
• High Performance drivers: OpenGL, DirectX, Hardcopy Support 
• Wide-UI Support: MFC, Qt, WPF, JavaSwing, ATL 
• Language Support: C, C++, C#, Java 
• Multi-Platform Support: Win32/64, Linux 32/64, Unix, Solaris, Mac OS/X 
• Large Model handling: interactive frame rate algorithms 
• Extensive Point-Cloud Functionality: dynamic LOD, splat rendering
• Fast Clash Detection Engine: soft and hard clashes
• Advanced Navigation: walk-through, gravity and terrain following
• Advanced GPU effects: real-time shadows, ambient occlusion, reflection panes, fast silhouette edges, blooms 
• Animation Engine: video reviews, simulations, collision detection
• Smart Text Handling: annotations, 3D bill-boarding
• High-quality TrueType font support, 3D text support, text greeking 
• Fast multi-layer transparency: depth peeling, screen door techniques
• Bounded multi-plane sectioning, cut-aways sectioning, endcaps
• High quality and fast hidden line removal
• Interpolated analysis shading
• High quality WYSIWYG hardcopy output with large format support
• Shader-based rendering for OpenGL2 and DirectX
• Stereo rendering (3D viewing)
• 3D mouse support 

Licensees of HOOPS Visualize are provided with a full Developer Support service, and can optionally request a Priority Support service if an even closer level of technical partnership is required.

Developer Support

The standard Developer Support service includes:

• Rapid responses via phone or email from 9am – 5pm PST, Monday-Friday.
• Online documentation and worked examples.
• Access to regular standard and advanced training courses.
• Online issue submission, tracking and resolution.
• Ability to log enhancement suggestions for future releases.

Priority Support

The optional Priority Support service includes everything under Developer Support together with the following additional benefits:

• Expedited responsiveness for Priority customers.
• Bundled training programs.
• Direct access to high-level technical resources dedicated to your project.

HOOPS Visualize supports the following platforms:

HOOPS Visualize supports a range of 3D and 2D Formats. Some formats require additional libraries to be installed as shown in the tables below:

3D Formats

* For DGN, HOOPS provides basic capabilities to directly import DGN CAD and Wireframe information. To import fully rendered 3D information, a plugin for Microstation is provided to export an HSF file that can be read by HOOPS Visualize.

A plug-in is also provided to export 3D and visualization data from Autodesk 3DS Max.

2D Formats

HOOPS Visualize 

Provides core and advanced functionality for creating high performance 2D & 3D applications, including:

• Rich 2D and 3D integrated scene-graph creation and management.
• Fast on-screen viewing, manipulation and interaction.
• Full support for optimal rendering on both OpenGL and Direct3D.
• High-quality text rendering and management.
• Crisp print and plot output.
• Support for all major 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, including Windows Vista.
• Comprehensive and intelligent handling on over 80 popular graphics cards.
• Pre-integration with all major UI systems.
• Source-code level sample applications for desktop, web, Java and .NET
• Very Large Model Visualization for real-time viewing of large datasets.
• Animation Engine including record, playback and serialization.
• Advanced point-cloud visualization.
• Fast clash-detection for both static and dynamic scenes.
• Advanced sectioning on multiple planes for creating cutaway views.
• Professional annotation options including 3D bill-boarding and occlusion.
• Advanced shader-based material rendering with a customizable material library.
• Walk-through operators including gravity and collision avoidance.
• Highly-optimized polycylinder primitives for pipework rendering.
• Advanced multi-layer transparency for displaying hidden objects.
• Direct import of DWG*, DGN*, DWF*, VRML, OBJ and STL formats.
• Support for stereo and immersive viewing.
• Support for high-resolution, large format hardcopy output.

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.

Found in more software seats worldwide than any other data access technology, HOOPS Exchange is the highest-performance, complete and affordable way to bring 3D CAD data into your application. For one low, per-seat fee, your application gains the power to import complete 3D CAD data, including PMI, tessellations and B-Rep from 20 file formats, faster than any other solution on the market.

HOOPS Exchange gives you maximum portability, with the option to deploy your application in desktop, cloud and enterprise environments, the compatibility to synchronize your application with a variety of supply chain workflows, and the flexibility to adapt your product offering without tight license restrictions.

By licensing HOOPS Exchange, you gain a valuable partner who cares about your success. Tech Soft 3D is continually updating, extending and improving our data access libraries to make you competitive. HOOPS Exchange also easily integrates with other 3D toolkits in the HOOPS Product Suite, HOOPS Visualize and HOOPS Publish, creating a complete framework for reading, visualizing and publishing 3D CAD data.

HOOPS Exchange offers a range of benefits to companies building engineering applications. By incorporating a rich data-access capability within your applications you are able to provide your products into engineering workflows that rely on access to third-party CAD or 3D data formats.

HOOPS Exchange is robust, high-performance and the technology of choice for adding data access into your application workflow.

How can HOOPS Exchange benefit you?

• Develop using libraries with a long-standing reputation for excellence.
• Gain access to multiple CAD formats in a single integration.
• Expand your supported 3D formats, your user base and sales opportunities.
• Ensure your application always has access to the latest format versions.
• Simplify your support issues with a single interface for all CAD import.
• Focus your resources on your core application strengths.
• Reduce development risk by using established and proven technology.

HOOPS Exchange delivers the highest performance file-reading capability available, so you can compete effectively in different markets without any dependency on proprietary CAD systems and without having to develop all the file-reading technology in-house. 

HOOPS Exchange provides all the integration controls a development team requires to easily build robust data-access into an application. It delivers a wide range of 3D data types in all major CAD and 3D formats via a rich set of APIs that provide ease of implementation as well as full control over the data delivered. By incorporating the HOOPS Exchange toolkit into an application, software development teams can readily offer a robust and rich access to precise engineering information to satisfy even the most demanding technical requirements. 

The range of data provided by the HOOPS Exchange toolkit includes:

• Tessellated data, for easy and accurate visualization of 3D models.
• Precise B-Rep data, for accuracy of archiving, modeling and measurement.
• All topology and geometry for solid, surface and wire frame models.
• Complete Product Structure including assemblies, sub-assemblies and parts.
• Both visual (visual) and semantic (data) Product Manufacturing Information (PMI).
• Metadata and common attributes, including colors, persistent ID and layers.

HOOPS Exchange ensures you get everything you need to build data-exchange into your application in one self-contained development toolkit:

• Access to all files in major proprietary and generic CAD and 3D formats.
• All formats available in single library from one supplier.
• One simple, consistent interface for all supported formats.
• Support for exporting to standard file formats including IGES, STEP and Parasolid.
• Continually updated with new formats and versions to ensure your application is current.
• No dependency on any third pary technology or external libraries.
• Available in 32 and 64 bit versions available for both Windows and Linux platforms.
• Combine with HOOPS Publish to produce lightweight, precise 3D PDF files.
• Tight integrations with HOOPS Visualize and HOOPS Publish.

HOOPS Exchange gives you access to the following formats for Import:

x*: Tessellation generated by HOOPS Exchange

x': Limited PMI available

HOOPS Exchange gives you access to the following formats for Export:

HOOPS Exchange is made available to your developers in two separate packages, one for reading and one for writing 3D data. Each package provides a single, consistent API giving access to all underlying supported formats so that implementation is easy for your development team and access to all formats is consistent and simplified for your users.

HOOPS Exchange Import:

HOOPS Exchange Import enables your applications to quickly and accurately import data from proprietary formats including CATIA, Creo Parametric, Pro/Engineer, NX, Solid Edge and SolidWorks, and also a range of industry standard formats including IGES, STEP and STL for manufacturing applications, and Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) for construction applications.

HOOPS Exchange Export:

Applications using HOOPS Exchange Export can simply integrate with external workflows by exporting IGES, Parasolid, STEP, STL and U3D. 

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.