FARO Expands Usage Of HOOPS Toolkits To Enhance Its Industry-Leading Metrology Software
FARO & Tech Soft 3D
The Challenge
FARO is the world’s most trusted source for 3D measurement, imaging, and realization technology. As a full solutions provider, FARO’s offerings encompass hardware, software, and services, enabling customers to realize the full operational potential of their FARO metrology equipment. For its manufacturing customers, FARO offers CAM2 software – a powerful, intuitive and application-focused 3D measurement software platform designed to enable users to efficiently fulfill their quality assurance and inspection tasks.
"We did a benchmark comparison of our existing CAD translation platform with HOOPS Exchange, using 800 different CAD files. After testing and evaluating the performance side by side, we were fully convinced that moving to HOOPS Exchange was the right move.”
Samuel Moura, Director of Software Engineering for CAM2, FARO
“CAM2 is very much a workflow-driven software,” said Darren Crann, Technical Product Owner for CAM2 at FARO. “We work very hard to understand the customer’s problems and how they need to do things – whether that’s working with point clouds, or doing repeat part inspections – and then we develop the product to meet those needs. We’re really aimed at providing a full metrology solution with comprehensive functionality to our customer base.”
At the same time, FARO places a special emphasis on usability. “One of our key competitive advantages in the market is that we’re very focused on making the product easy for customers to use,” said Samuel Moura, Director of Software Engineering for CAM2 at FARO. “We want to make it intuitive and simple without sacrificing any power or strength when it comes to functionality.”
FARO & Tech Soft 3D
The Challenge
FARO is the world’s most trusted source for 3D measurement, imaging, and realization technology. As a full solutions provider, FARO’s offerings encompass hardware, software, and services, enabling customers to realize the full operational potential of their FARO metrology equipment.
For its manufacturing customers, FARO offers CAM2 software – a powerful, intuitive and application-focused 3D measurement software platform designed to enable users to efficiently fulfill their quality assurance and inspection tasks. “CAM2 is very much a workflow-driven software,” said Darren Crann, Technical Product Owner for CAM2 at FARO.
“We work very hard to understand the customer’s problems and how they need to do things – whether that’s working with point clouds, or doing repeat part inspections – and then we develop the product to meet those needs. We’re really aimed at providing a full metrology solution with comprehensive functionality to our customer base.”
At the same time, FARO places a special emphasis on usability. “One of our key competitive advantages in the market is that we’re very focused on making the product easy for customers to use,” said Samuel Moura, Director of Software Engineering for CAM2 at FARO. “We want to make it intuitive and simple without sacrificing any power or strength when it comes to functionality.”
Industry:
Manufacturing
Challenge:
Provide support for advanced measurement workflows while maintaining product ease of use - Deliver strong visualization capabilities for point clouds, CAD files, and other 3D data - Give customers native access to CAD data from multiple software vendors
Solution:
HOOPS Visualize delivers best in-class graphics technology to provide users with powerful 3D visualization, and HOOPS Exchange provides fast, reliable 3D CAD data access
Results:
Provide a simple and streamlined user experience by giving customers access to more than 30 CAD file formats through a single software package - Incorporate powerful visualization technology into application to support advanced 3D concepts - Ensure competitive edge by focusing internal resources on core competency of metrology rather than fast-evolving areas like graphics technology or data translation
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.
