Simulation and Analysis
Focus your development resources on your CAE application’s unique features, not on building foundational simulation and analysis capabilities. Tech Soft 3D’s end-to-end CAE SDKs tackle the core infrastructure so you can innovate faster.
Tech Soft 3D provides proven SDKs that cover the critical foundational needs of the entire CAE workflow, allowing you to focus more time on features that add value to your products. Our market-proven components are used by leaders like Ansys, Autodesk, Siemens, and Dassault Systèmes to power high-end desktop and cloud CAE solutions.
HOOPS toolkits, together with MachineWorks' Polygonica, power everything from CAD bridging, 2D & 3D meshing, and solving to post-processing. By covering the foundational simulation and analysis functionalities, our SDKs give you more time to focus on what sets your product apart.
HOOPS Exchange is the leading CAD data access SDK, offering access to over 30 industry-standard formats and providing fine-grained control over model tessellation.
Applications built with HOOPS Exchange offer a broader range of file format support beyond standards like STL, IGES, and STEP. By adding native reading and tessellation for major CAD formats, such as CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, and NX, HOOPS Exchange helps improve your users' experience.
Polygonica bridges the gap between CAD models and mesh with proven technology for automatic healing, defeaturing, and water-tightening of faulty tessellations. It generates valid 2D meshes ready for adaptation and volume meshing, saving users time by eliminating the need for manual cleanup and repair.
Add fail-free 2D and 3D mesh generation and adaptation to your software with the HOOPS Mesh toolkit.
Trusted by industry partners for its reliability and performance, HOOPS Mesh supports a wide range of element types, mesh sizes, and quality controls for isotropic and non-isotropic meshing needs.
To build an FEM solver, you’ll need to define local element contributions, assemble them, and solve the resulting equations. But why reinvent the wheel?
HOOPS Solve is a high-performance toolkit that handles all these foundational capabilities for you. Backed by proprietary SMP iterative and direct sparse solvers, it can instantly boost the performance of your CAE application.
Simulation engineers need software tools to interpret solver results and make informed decisions. HOOPS Envision enables you to build software with highly efficient data analysis, visualization, and robust post-processors.
Whether you’re developing for desktop or web, HOOPS Envision tackles the challenge of CAE result processing and automation, allowing you to focus on delivering an excellent user experience.
Solvers seldom work alone. Moving data between simulation packages is often tedious and time-consuming, and for years, writing and maintaining in-house readers and writers was the norm.
HOOPS Access, Tech Soft 3D’s vendor-independent CAE interoperability SDK, eliminates that burden. Supporting over 30 input and 10 output formats, it empowers CAE applications to remain open and agile, without the overhead of managing constant format changes or version updates.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, HOOPS Solve is a powerful solver SDK that supports finite element analysis (FEA) capabilities. It allows developers to embed simulation workflows directly into their engineering applications, enabling users to run structural analyses such as:
Static linear and nonlinear analysis
Modal analysis (vibration modes)
Contact and constraint modeling
Thermal-stress coupling
Tech Soft 3D's SDKs provide support CAE workflows end-to-end. No matter what part of the process you need to support, we have an SDK that can help you innovate faster.
HOOPS Exchange - 3D CAD data access with support for 30+ file formats
Polygonica - Mesh healing for fault tesselations
HOOPS Mesh - Fail-free automatic mesh generation
HOOPS Solve - Platform to build and solve FEM models
HOOPS Envision - Desktop and remote CAE data analysis and visualization
HOOPS Access - Unified interoperability SDK for CAE file formats.
Yes, you can use both SDKs in your application. While both touch data translation, they have different uses. HOOPS Exchange gives you data access to 3D CAD file formats, while HOOPS Access allows you to read and write CAE data.
The right SDK for your CAE application depends on the specific type of data you need to visualize.
If your application involves visualizing simulation results, such as FEA, CFD, or multiphysics outputs, HOOPS Envision is the ideal solution.
On the other hand, HOOPS Visualize is designed primarily for CAD model visualization, with strengths in detailed geometry rendering, model interrogation, and graphics customization. While it offers powerful visualization capabilities, it does not natively support simulation result rendering like HOOPS Envision does.
HOOPS Access supports a variety of CAE formats, including:
Read & Write Support:
LS-DYNA, Ensight, Fluent, IDEAS, Abaqus, MSC NASTRAN, PATRAN, CGNS, VKI Native, TEC Plot
Read Only Support
Mechanical, Polyflow, Autodyn, CFX, FIDAP, FEMAP, MARC, Hypermesh, Optistruct, PAM-CRASH, STL, OBJ, GMV, PLOT3D, OPENFOAM, VTK Legacy, PTC Mechanica, COMSOL, SAMCEF, PERMAS
