Oracle’s AutoVue Utilizes HOOPS Exchange And HOOPS Visualize To Make Product And Asset Documents And Information, Including 3D/2D CAD, Available To All Enterprise Users
Oracle & Tech Soft 3D
The Challenge
Supporting 20 years of CAD translator development is costly and complicated. Updating translators to the latest CAD file versions, testing them, and supporting them can be an enormous burden. Oracle decided to reduce development costs and free up resources to focus on new markets and innovation.
“It was the best performing technology we tested, fast and accurate. Working with Tech Soft 3D was a great experience; they were very responsive and quick to resolve issues.”
Thierry Bonfante, Senior Director, Oracle Product Development
The Decision to Use HOOPS Toolkits
When comparing the cost of developing and maintaining its own CAD file translators to using a proven component technology, Oracle determined that by choosing HOOPS Exchange they would have the latest and best support of over 20 CAD formats and could deploy their resources to support core features of their visualization solutions.
HOOPS Exchange is a proven CAD translation toolkit used by hundreds of organizations to process millions of files. By licensing HOOPS Exchange, Oracle could add complete, fast and accurate 3D CAD data access to multiple file formats, minimizing development costs while boosting product quality. Additionally, HOOPS Exchange is integrated with other toolkits. Oracle saw this as a unique advantage because it could easily add new functionality as its customers’ needs evolved. Oracle would soon develop AutoVue 3D for Mobile using HOOPS Visualize, the gold standard graphics engine for native engineering applications on mobile devices.
Implementation
On an aggressive schedule of just 18 months, Oracle worked very closely with Tech Soft 3D to implement HOOPS Exchange within AutoVue. The project included several man-years to test millions of files within its existing test suite. HOOPS Exchange had a high success rate with even the toughest of files. Thierry Bonfante, Senior Director, Product Development at Oracle commented that, “It was the best performing technology we tested, fast and accurate. Working with Tech Soft 3D was a great experience, they were very responsive and quick to resolve issues.”
The Result
Though reluctant at first to replace existing functionality with a licensed component, Oracle Engineering and Product Management is overwhelmingly supportive of the HOOPS toolkits. Based on this new technology, Oracle was able to drastically reduce the investment in file support and transfer the resources to business-critical use cases.
And the critical question is: How did the market respond to that change? AutoVue v21, powered by HOOPS Exchange, was released in November 2015. It was a smooth and easy upgrade. No customers noticed that the underlying technology changed and many more were delighted with the improved robustness, functionality, and performance of AutoVue.
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.
