HOOPS Envision is an all-in-one toolkit for CAE data import, analysis, visualization, reporting, and automation. This market-hardened SDK provides high-performance analysis tools and efficient sharing workflows for both desktop and native web applications.
For more than 25 years, HOOPS has provided the industry’s leading CAE-optimized SDK, delivering a complete set of proven out-of-the-box tools to develop CAE applications and build CAE workflows.
HOOPS Envision’s fine-tuned data extraction seamlessly digs into large CAE datasets and generates valuable 3D analysis models for engineering: animations, cutting planes, isosurfaces, isovolumes, plots, and more. Combining these models with HOOPS Envision’s powerful rendering engines feeds interactive CAE viewing to desktop and native web applications. The toolkit's Python modules enable efficient automated engineering workflows that preserve the 3D and interactive nature of CAE data in browser-based dashboards or standalone HTML reports.
HOOPS Envision’s unique streamer component addresses one of the biggest barriers to cloud adoption: the high cost of reengineering. By maximizing reuse of existing desktop application logic, it significantly reduces development time, risk, and investment.
Features & Benefits
The HOOPS Envision software component framework provides the broadest technology coverage on the market for CAE analysis, visualization, and engineering workflow building, both on desktops and in native remote engineering settings.
The result of over 25 years of continuous development and innovation, HOOPS Envision has become an industry-leading toolkit by listening to the needs of CAE developers.
HOOPS Envision delivers powerful visualization of CAE models, backed by efficient rendering engines optimized for both desktop applications (OpenGL) and browser-based web applications (WebGL).
The key to CAE analysis and visualization is the efficiency of data access and extraction. HOOPS Envision is fine-tuned to explore the large CAE datasets and produce interactive 3D analysis models, including animations, cutting planes, isosurfaces and isovolumes, history plots, length plots, etc.
HOOPS Envision’s web development API ensures bandwidth-efficient remote CAE workflows by minimizing off-premises data transfer. This delivers a desktop-like user experience for engineers and reduces server-side costs by lessening the need for GPUs.
With a single integration, HOOPS Envision allows developers to access data from over 20 mainstream solvers, eliminating the need to code for each file format.
HOOPS Envision’s streamer simplifies cloud migration by reusing legacy desktop application logic. This approach minimizes rework, reduces engineering costs, and accelerates deployment.
HOOPS Envision offers powerful, flexible rendering, relying on shader-based OpenGL for desktop viewing and client-side WebGL for browser-based viewing. This CAE data processing, visualization, and sharing toolkit allows display models to be stored in self-contained, light-weight files for sharing in a browser, in MS Office documents, standalone HTML reports, or even viewed with VR headsets.
HOOPS Envision is developer-friendly with few constraints on the development environments. There is full support of all major operating systems (including Docker), a broad set of languages to choose from – C++, C#, Python, JavaScript (TypeScript), and no dependencies on UI toolkits.
This toolkit is built by developers for developers and supported by a highly responsive team of experienced CAE experts.
The combination of automated data extraction with Python and web-based visualization powers significant engineering efficiency. With HOOPS Envision, you can offer one-click, customized dashboards to your users, meeting their recurring analysis needs. The technical choices behind our web visualization tools enable you to build secure, comfortable, and highly cost-effective web applications.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Yes. HOOPS Envision is available in two versions: Desktop and Web. The Desktop edition delivers high-performance CAE visualization with an OpenGL-based rendering engine, while the Web edition offers efficient WebGL rendering and bandwidth-optimized streaming. Together, they enable developers to build powerful CAE workflows that run seamlessly on engineers’ desktops or within secure, browser-based environments, without compromising performance or interactivity.
CEETRON Envision is now HOOPS Envision.
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.
HOOPS Envision is developer-friendly and supports C++, C#, Python, and JavaScript (TypeScript). It works across major operating systems, supports Docker, and does not require a specific UI toolkit, offering flexibility for CAE developers.
HOOPS Envision is part of Tech Soft 3D’s complete suite of SDKs for CAE and simulation workflows. It works seamlessly with other toolkits to cover the full engineering pipeline:
HOOPS Exchange – Imports and exports CAD data into your application, which can then be visualized and analyzed with HOOPS Envision.
HOOPS Access – Handles import and export of CAE and simulation data for interoperability across multiple solvers and formats.
HOOPS Solve – Provides a developer-friendly framework to define and solve FEM models, complementing HOOPS Envision’s powerful visualization and reporting.
HOOPS Mesh – Ensures fail-free automatic mesh generation for reliable simulation results.
Polygonica – Cleans and repairs CAD models, fixing tessellations so they’re ready for simulation and visualization.
Together, these SDKs allow developers to build complete, interoperable CAE applications that cover data access, meshing, solving, visualization, and reporting.
Yes, we offer a free, 60-day evaluation period so you can test HOOPS Envision and even build an early proof-of-concept. With our free trial, you get full access to HOOPS Envision with the added support of our technical experts. You can start your free trial at manage.techsoft3d.com.
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