Aras Continues To Disrupt The PLM Market With An Innovative Desktop And Web App Based Powered HOOPS Toolkit, Adopted By Many Of The World's Largest Manufacturers
Aras & Tech Soft 3D
Aras PLM solutions support customers in markets from aerospace and defense, to top tier automotive, all the way to commercial food products. The commonality is most of them build physical things that come to life through CAD. The ability to visualize that product information and 3D representations throughout the lifecycle of the product, from cradle to grave, is a key component to the Aras solution.
“We’ve been working with HOOPS toolkits for over 6 years, and it just works. More importantly, they’ve been adapting it and modifying it to meet our use cases. We’re very picky about who we partner with, and [former] Tech Soft CEO Ron Fritz and the team have been outstanding. Their willingness to engage and solve problems together is making a big difference.”
Peter Schroer, CEO, Aras
HOOPS Exchange & HOOPS Visualize Partner Success Story FAQs
What file formats does HOOPS Exchange support?
HOOPS Exchange is Tech Soft 3D’s CAD data access SDK. The toolkit lets your application read more than 30 CAD formats and write to more than 10 export formats through a single API. Popular supported formats include CATIA, NX, Creo, SOLIDWORKS, Revit, IFC, STEP, and JT.
What is HOOPS Visualize?
HOOPS Visualize is Tech Soft 3D’s 3D graphics engine for engineering applications. It renders 2D and 3D models for CAD, CAM, and AEC workflows on desktop, web, mobile, and AR/VR platforms.
How do HOOPS Exchange and HOOPS Visualize work together?
HOOPS Exchange and HOOPS Visualize are designed to work together as a complete solution for engineering applications. HOOPS Exchange imports CAD data from more than 30 formats, including geometry, product structure, and PMI. HOOPS Visualize then renders that data with high performance on desktop, web, mobile, and AR/VR platforms. Pairing the two gives your application CAD data access and visualization from a single vendor, with one point of contact for support.
What file formats does HOOPS Exchange support?
HOOPS Exchange supports a variety of CAD and AEC formats, including:
Read & Write Support:
3MF, 3MF, ACIS, ACIS, FBX, gITF, IGES, JT, OBJ, Parasolid, PDF, PRC, PRC, STEP, STEP XML, STL, U3D, VRML, VRML
Read Only Support
3DS, CATIA V4, CATIA v5, CATIA V6, COLLADA, Creo, DGN, DWF, DWG, I-DEAS, IFC, Inventor, Navisworks NWD, NX, Pro/E, Revit, Rhino, Solid Edge, SOLIDWORKS, VDA-FS
Write Only Support
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What engineering features come built into HOOPS Visualize?
While plenty of visualization toolkits exist, HOOPS Visualize is built for engineering applications, both through its optimization and inclusion of pre-built operators for common engineering tasks. These cover measurement and markup, advanced selection and highlighting, massive point clouds, advanced 2D rendering, and volumetric measurement using B-rep and mesh data. The toolkit also supports real-time and photorealistic rendering for desktop users.
