CASTOR uses Polygonica’s geometry engine for high throughput analysis of large assemblies on the cloud alongside HOOPS Exchange for CAD data access
CASTOR & Tech Soft 3D
“We licensed Polygonica alongside HOOPS Exchange from Tech Soft 3D. Exchange gives us fast access to pretty much every major CAD assembly file format available along with important design information such as intelligent PMI and GD&T.
We use Polygonica as one of our main geometry crunching engines. The quality of Polygonica’s automatic STL healing seems pretty widely known in the AM community but we have to go a lot further, investigating many aspects of printability such as layout, lattice and support creation. As well as healing and analysis we use Polygonica’s decimation, hollowing, offsetting, Booleans and geometry creation routines such as extrusions and sweeps.
Our Enterprise product provides weight reduction analysis and also “likelihood of failure” checking based on Finite Element simulations. Polygonica’s mesh fixing is a key part of those workflows.”
-Elad Schiller co-founder and CTO of CASTOR Technologies Ltd
“We licensed Polygonica alongside HOOPS Exchange from Tech Soft 3D. Exchange gives us fast access to pretty much every major CAD assembly file format available along with important design information such as intelligent PMI and GD&T."
-Elad Schiller, co-founder and CTO of CASTOR Technologies Ltd
HOOPS Exchange 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 can HOOPS Exchange do for you?
HOOPS Exchange provides your application with industry-leading CAD data access to the full contents of a CAD file, including B-rep geometry, PMI, the model tree, views, and persistent IDs. By taking advantage of HOOPS Exchange, your team can spend its development time on your application’s core features instead of building and maintaining file translators.
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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Does HOOPS Exchange require a license for the original CAD system?
No. HOOPS Exchange reads CAD data without depending on CAD applications, so your users don’t need a license for the software that created the file.
