HOOPS Exchange Provides Rich Data Access to GrabCAD Print That Enables Advanced Additive Workflows
GrabCAD & Tech Soft 3D
The GrabCAD software platform makes additive manufacturing at scale possible through asset management, planning, programming, execution, and quality initiatives. These software solutions enable customers to create accurate and effective additive manufacturing workflows, tap new business models and work within the IoT and supply chain ecosystem.
"At GrabCAD, we are focused on delivering an open engineering platform for the cloud. Partnering with Tech Soft 3D helps up provide powerful CAD conversion, viewing, and interaction in a browser and on mobile devices."
Hardi Meybaum, CEO GrabCAD
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.
