Build your CAE application with fail-free 2D and 3D meshing you can count on. HOOPS Mesh delivers exact predicate technology and best-in-class boundary recovery for unmatched precision.
With over 20 years of experience, HOOPS Mesh is a toolkit CAE developers rely on for fully automatic, high-quality mesh generation. Through a single, unified programming interface, it delivers planar triangular meshes, 2.5D triangular and quadrilateral surface meshes, tetrahedral volume meshes, mapped and extrusion meshes, and hybrid volume meshes with pyramidal transitions from quad surfaces to tetrahedral interiors.
All components work together to support advanced workflows, like generating conformal meshes on complex geometries. Trusted by industry leaders, HOOPS Mesh brings unmatched reliability and flexibility to simulation software development.
Features & Functionality
The HOOPS Mesh software component empowers your engineering teams to seamlessly integrate robust mesh generation in your CAE application.
Mesh generation can run into tricky edge cases like tiny element values or nearly overlapping nodes, causing some meshers to fail. HOOPS Mesh tackles these challenges seamlessly with exact arithmetic and a hardened boundary recovery scheme, ensuring reliable 2D and 3D meshing even on complex geometries.
HOOPS Mesh supports both linear and curved elements across all mesh generators, in addition to advanced cubic elements for unstructured meshing. Unlike many other meshers, HOOPS Mesh has the unique ability to take parabolic triangles as input. With built-in logic to handle curved geometry from the beginning, HOOPS Mesh is able to deliver stable, high-quality parabolic tetrahedral meshes.
With HOOPS Mesh, developers have full control over mesh size and element quality. Mesh size can be localized by selecting specific model regions, setting a depth from the boundary, or defining custom rules via callbacks. Surface quality controls include skew angle, quadrilateral warp, edge length, and triangle altitude ratio, ensuring cleaner, more reliable meshes. This level of control streamlines meshing and delivers more accurate simulation results.
Bridge the gap between CAD data and CAE workflows by combining HOOPS Mesh with HOOPS Exchange, Tech Soft 3D’s leading SDK for accessing over 30 CAD formats. HOOPS Mesh also provides sample integration source code for popular kernels, such as Parasolid, Open CASCADE, and ACIS, to make integration with them smoother.
The 2.5D surface mesher starts with a triangular tessellation of geometric surfaces. Users can attach any number of associations to the mesh. Thanks to its underlying geometry representation, HOOPS Mesh easily integrates with industry-standard kernels.
Along with the main hybrid advancing front/Delaunay tetrahedral generator, HOOPS Mesh offers a variety of other possibilities, including mapped-mesh and extrusion generators. Triangular, quadrilateral, tetrahedral, wedge, pyramidal, and hexahedral elements can be generated.
The power of the toolkit lies in its flexible interface, which allows a seamless combination of the various meshers to produce complex meshing workflows.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
HOOPS Mesh is Tech Soft 3D’s software development toolkit (SDK) for 2D and 3D meshing in CAE applications. It provides robust, fail-free meshing to support simulation and analysis workflows.
CEETRON Mesh is now HOOPS Mesh.
The CEETRON SDKs have been rebranded as part of the HOOPS product family. While the name has changed, the SDKs continue to deliver the same trusted CAE performance, features, and capabilities. This rebrand brings our technology under a single, unified HOOPS brand. Learn more in our official blog post.
Yes. HOOPS Mesh provides comprehensive 2D and 3D meshing capabilities, ensuring developers can handle a wide range of CAE application requirements.
You can import CAD data into HOOPS Mesh by pairing it with HOOPS Exchange, Tech Soft 3D’s CAD data access SDK. HOOPS Exchange supports over 30 CAD file formats and provides rich information, including B-Rep geometry and PMI. Together, they enable seamless conversion of CAD files into simulation-ready meshes.
Yes, HOOPS Mesh integrates with other Tech Soft 3D SDKs to support the full breadth of the CAE workflow.
Yes. HOOPS Mesh integrates seamlessly with other Tech Soft 3D SDKs to cover the entire CAE workflow, from CAD data import to simulation and visualization:
HOOPS Exchange – Imports and exports CAD data into your application, which can then be prepared for meshing and solved with HOOPS Solve.
HOOPS Access – Manages import and export of CAE and simulation data, ensuring interoperability across solvers and formats.
HOOPS Envision – Delivers interactive visualization and reporting of solver results, turning data into actionable insights.
Polygonica – Cleans, heals, and optimizes geometry, making models ready for meshing and simulation.
Yes, we offer a free, 60-day evaluation period so you can test HOOPS Mesh and even build an early proof-of-concept. With our free trial, you get full access to HOOPS Mesh with the added support of our technical experts. You can start your free trial at manage.techsoft3d.com.
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