Shipbuilding
Build advanced shipbuilding and marine applications with Tech Soft 3D’s HOOPS SDKs.
Leverage powerful toolkits for large model visualization and CAD data translation, so you can focus on the features that make your naval engineering application stand out.
Shipbuilding applications must support components designed in different CAD systems. HOOPS Exchange gives you seamless access to native CAD data from over 30 formats, including STEP, XT, NX, CATIA™, SolidWorks®, Autodesk DWG®, and more, all through a single API. With exact B-rep geometry, PMI, and assembly tree data, you can ensure smooth collaboration between designers and stakeholders while delivering a better user experience.
HOOPS Visualize is a high-performance, customizable SDK that empowers developers to build advanced 3D visualization tools for ship and marine design. From hull structures to intricate mechanical assemblies, it handles massive and complex ship models with ease, on both desktop and web platforms.
Features like assembly navigation, cutting planes, exploded views, and real-time measurement give engineers and designers intuitive tools for detailed model exploration. With built-in streaming and server-side rendering, your applications can efficiently manage large-scale models and support smooth collaboration across globally distributed teams.
HOOPS Envision brings advanced CAE data visualization and simulation post-processing to web and desktop platforms. It's ideal for industries like shipbuilding where performance and accuracy are essential.
Whether analyzing structural integrity, fluid dynamics, or thermal behavior, engineers can interactively explore and share simulation results, such as stress distributions and fluid flow, directly within SPDM or PLM systems.
Support for lightweight formats such as VTFX ensures critical insights are preserved while reducing storage and performance overhead. This makes HOOPS Envision ideal for managing complex simulation data across the entire ship design and manufacturing lifecycle.
Power your shipbuilding applications with Siemens' Parasolid, the industry’s leading solid modeling kernel for high-precision 3D modeling.
Create, edit, and heal complex models with geometry you can trust, backed by seamless interoperability and proven performance. Parasolid ensures your designs are manufacturable, accurate, and ready for production at every stage of the shipbuilding process.
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Frequently Asked Questions
We have two SDKs available for your visualization needs. If you need 3D CAD visualization for your shipbuilding models, HOOPS Visualize is the ideal solution for you. If you are creating an application that requires simulation visualization or post-processing, HOOPS Envision is the SDK to suit those needs.
HOOPS Visualize is built to handle large and complex models. With features such as advanced streaming and server-side rendering, you'll be able to view your ship models without any performance loss.
Yes, desktop and web support is available for HOOPS Exchange, HOOPS Envision, and HOOPS Visualize.
HOOPS Visualize and Siemens Parasolid are ideal for ship design. Parasolid handles high-precision 3D solid modeling, while HOOPS Visualize enables advanced 3D rendering and interaction with large, complex ship assemblies.
