Partner Success Story

With HOOPS Exchange, Open Mind’s HyperMILL® And HyperCAD®-S Boast Improved CAD Data Access And Reuse While Maintaining PMI And Data Integrity

Open Mind & Tech Soft 3D

Open Mind's HyperMILL® is a modular complete CAM solution for 2.5D, 3D, 5-axis, HSC/HPC, and mill-turning processes, and also includes special applications and highly efficient automation solutions. The CAM software provides technology-leading geometry analysis and tool path calculations. There are specialized routines designed for efficient programming and machining of these components on 5-axis milling or mill-turn machines. Robust CNC postprocessors are also provided to assure strong communication to machine tool controllers.

Background

“Tech Soft 3D is a trusted, reliable development partner who helps us implement specific requirements and accommodate customer requests,”

Dr. Josef Koch, CTO, OPEN MIND Technologies, AG

“Digital transformation is happening at lightning speed within the manufacturing industry and we are committed to helping our partners, such as OPEN MIND, keep pace with this rapid momentum,” said Lionel Vieilly, Product Manager at Tech Soft 3D. “Fast access to the full integrity of data, being able to use that data without the need for an additional translator, extreme performance with low memory usage – these are all paramount to quickly building robust, sophisticated 3D applications and we are proud to be the ones our partners look to as the gold standard.”

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.