May 22, 2026 Tech Soft 3D

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Want to learn more about Tech Soft 3D and Synera's Partnership? Explore how Synera utilized HOOPS Exchange and Parasolid for their process automation platform in our video partner success story.

Synera & Tech Soft 3D

Synera is an agentic AI platform for engineering that helps R&D teams automate and orchestrate complex product development workflows. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Bremen, Germany, Synera enables engineers to automate repetitive tasks, connect disparate tools, and build configurable workflows through a visual, node-based environment.

"We see HOOPS AI as a key enabler for our ‘Advanced AI’ offering, starting with part similarity search and expanding into new capabilities as the technology grows. We’re excited to be among the first adopters and to work closely with Tech Soft 3D to shape what AI-driven engineering workflows can become.”
— Andrew Sartorelli, VP of Software Partnerships, Synera

With customers ranging from big names like NASA, BMW, and Airbus to smaller and niche organizations, Synera prides itself on the platform's customization and the range of industries served. These include mechanical engineering, aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, and additive manufacturing.

To deliver a platform that combines CAD interoperability, visualization, meshing, and simulation in a single environment, Synera relies on multiple Tech Soft 3D toolkits as foundational building blocks, including HOOPS Exchange, HOOPS Visualize, HOOPS Mesh, HOOPS Solve, HOOPS Access, and HOOPS AI.

“HOOPS Exchange and HOOPS Visualize were the first packages that we started using, and then HOOPS Mesh and HOOPS Solve came into play soon afterwards. We need all of these technologies, and we found the whole package compelling.”
— Robert, Lead Developer, Synera

The Challenge

Engineers today are under growing pressure to deliver complex products faster and across multiple disciplines. CAD, simulation, costing, and manufacturing data often exist in separate systems, forcing teams to spend valuable time on file conversions, data handoffs, and repetitive tasks. Rework and slow feedback loops create costly delays and leave little room for innovation.

“Engineers were spending more time moving files between programs than actually solving problems. Every handoff, every conversion, added risk and slowed everything down. That’s the challenge we set out to fix.”

— Robert, Lead Developer, Synera

Synera built an AI-native platform that addresses these challenges head-on, creating a tool that can streamline and automate complex engineering workflows while remaining flexible and intuitive. Some of these core capabilities include:

Visual workflow construction – engineers can drag and connect nodes to define processes, seeing geometry update in real time. This makes complex sequences understandable and reduces data loss caused by disconnected tools.
Automated pipelines – multi-step workflows can automatically import CAD, generate meshes, run simulations, and manage results, cutting repetitive manual tasks and accelerating time to insight.
Data consistency and orchestration – geometry, metadata, and material properties remain synchronized across CAD, meshing, and simulation, with a team of specialized AI agents enabling parallel or conditional task execution. This ensures reliability even in complex, multi-step processes.
Extensibility and customization – users can add domain-specific nodes, scripts, or API integrations, allowing workflows to adapt to unique project requirements without disrupting the platform.
Workflow-level insights – engineers can monitor, debug, and iterate within the workflow, seeing the impact of changes immediately and gaining confidence in their designs faster.

Synera was able to provide all these tools in its platform, despite having a relatively small development team, by taking advantage of a foundation of licensed toolkits. For these, they turned to Tech Soft 3D.

HOOPS Toolkits at the Core of Synera’s Platform

At the heart of Synera’s AI engineering platform are several HOOPS toolkits from Tech Soft 3D, each addressing a critical part of the workflow.

HOOPS Exchange provides its industry-leading CAD import and export of 30+ formats, allowing Synera users to bring data from many different CAD systems into a single environment. This enables engineers to automate workflows without being constrained by file formats or source systems.

HOOPS Visualize powers Synera’s 3D viewer, which is central to its visual programming approach. Geometry is displayed directly alongside workflows, allowing users to see the results of automation steps as they build and execute them.

“The model is always there. The geometry is part of the workflow, and HOOPS Visualize is what makes that possible for us.”

— Robert, Lead Developer, Synera

To support integrated analysis, Synera also licenses HOOPS Mesh and HOOPS Solve. These toolkits enable users to perform meshing and run linear simulations directly within the platform, without exporting geometry to external tools or managing additional solver licenses. For many use cases, this can provide fast, reliable feedback early in the design process.

HOOPS Access allows Synera to connect to external or legacy solvers, seamlessly integrating results into automated workflows while maintaining consistency and reliability.

Finally, Synera licenses the newest Tech Soft 3D toolkit, HOOPS AI. The toolkit offers Synera users the ability to leverage the new AI CAD embeddings technology, allowing them to build a model from their existing CAD data and perform geometric searches for parts that exhibit similarities.

Partnership Enables Development Focus & A Better Final Product

By licensing core capabilities from Tech Soft 3D, Synera has been able to focus its development efforts on what differentiates its platform: workflow automation, visual programming, and extensibility.

Tech Soft 3D’s data access, visualization, and CAE tools allow Synera’s development team to take advantage of the decades of cumulative market-testing and expert experience that forged these tools without expending the resources themselves.

By working with a single vendor, Synera takes advantage of everything from a single business and support contact to powerful integrations between the toolkits themselves.

“We knew from the start that we had to integrate well-established technologies. We are a small team, and we cannot do everything from scratch.”

— Robert, Lead Developer, Synera

Throughout their partnership, Synera and Tech Soft 3D have developed a close working relationship, with an active feedback loop helping both companies improve their respective products. With particular praise for the transparent communication and responsive support, Synera can continue to rely on Tech Soft 3D as it looks to expand its platform further.

Synera isn’t sitting around enjoying its powerful platform; they share Tech Soft 3D’s values of constant improvement. Synera is investing heavily in advanced automation and multi-agent systems, along with creative ways to bring more AI capabilities into its product.

With HOOPS Exchange, Visualize, Mesh, Solve, Access, and now HOOPS AI embedded at the core of its platform, Synera is positioned to evolve its product while continuing to deliver reliable, high-performance engineering automation to its users.

For more information on their products, check out their website at https://www.synera.io/platform

We are also excited to share a video partner success story with Tech Soft 3D and Synera, available below.