Product Lifecycle Management
Developers of innovative Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Simulation Process and Data Management (SPDM) applications face complex challenges that stand in the way of them focusing on refining the unique features of their applications. Their products must access both the models and simulation results for design (CAD) and design validation (CAE) stages. Visualization and interaction with these models are often key to unlocking the full value of PLM and SPDM systems. Finally, these applications require crucial features including storage, process and geometry optimization, report generation, and collaborative views.
Tech Soft 3D provides solutions that address these core needs, allowing developers to focus on what makes their application stand out in their respective industries.
CAD Import
3D Graphics
Interactive Data
Partner Success
SDKs Built for Your 3D Workflows
Tech Soft 3D toolkits provide access to CAD and CAE data and create compelling 3D web visualization of geometries and simulation results.
Our HOOPS toolkits are ideal for CAD models, with HOOPS Exchange providing fail-free CAD data access and HOOPS Communicator offering developers a powerful web-ready graphics engine.
Complimentary CEETRON toolkits specialize in CAE data access and display. CEETRON Access covers the import and export of most industry-standard CAE formats, while CEETRON Envision provides both web visualization of CAE data and remote post-processing capabilities and automation.
Graphics Toolkits for PLM & SPDM Software
Tech Soft 3D Toolkits ease strain on development resources by providing readymade tools to quickly add 3D viewing functionality to applications, enabling users to display and interact with 3D CAD and CAE models across all major web browsers, mobile devices, and desktops.
HOOPS Visualize provides high-quality rendering on desktop or mobile applications, while HOOPS Communicator is a fully customizable SDK for high-performance, web-based visualization of 3D graphics. CEETRON Envision provides advanced data analysis and visualization capabilities, enabling you to read, organize, and share CAE data in a web browser.
Unified CAD & CAE Access for PLM Systems
Tech Soft 3D's toolkits enable access to CAD and CAE data, enhancing PLM software with comprehensive data integration capabilities. HOOPS Exchange offers fast and accurate CAD data import and export, supporting over 30 CAD formats for workflows like analysis, manufacturing, and documentation. Advanced assembly management features allow users to work efficiently with only the necessary parts and combine data from different systems.
CEETRON Access complements this by providing seamless CAE data access, supporting major industry standards like Ansys, Nastran, Abaqus, LS-Dyna, Fluent, openFOAM, ... Together, these toolkits ensure PLM systems can handle diverse CAD and CAE data formats, facilitating collaboration and data interoperability.
Fast & Accurate CAD Data Access
Empower your PLM software with industry-leading CAD data import and export, accessing over 30 CAD formats with the HOOPS Exchange toolkit. HOOPS Exchange provides deep data interrogation beyond the solid model to power workflows like analysis, manufacturing, inspection, and documentation. Support advanced assembly management through its shattered assembly interface and quickly access only necessary parts and subassemblies, switch out revisions, and combine data from different CAD systems. See why Aras and Oracle choose HOOPS Exchange for their CAD data translation needs.
Seamless CAE Data Access
Enhance your PLM software with seamless access to CAE data formats using CEETRON Access. With compatibility for over 30 industry standards, including Ansys, Nastran, Abaqus, LS-Dyna, Fluent, and OpenFOAM, this toolkit helps organizations to better collaborate and share data across their digital ecosystem. CEETRON Access allows developers to efficiently read, write, and visualize CAE data within PLM workflows, ensuring compatibility across diverse simulation tools and delivering the flexibility needed for comprehensive data management.
Explore the power of the HOOPS Web Platform
Efficiency Sharing & Management of CAE Data for PLM
CEETRON Envision empowers users to create interactive post-processors, automated workflows using Python, and seamlessly share results across platforms, making it an ideal solution for SPDM systems.
CEETRON Envision also reduces data storage requirements by supporting the neutral VTFX file format. By retaining only the most relevant simulation results, such as temperature fields and particle animations, SPDM systems can visualize, store, and share important simulation insights without necessary data overhead.
Assembly Management and 3D Visualization for PLM
HOOPS Communicator provides numerous ways to navigate your data like loading from an assembly tree, bill of materials or by bounding volume. View massive assemblies and load them using the powerful streaming geometry server, rendering on a server and video streaming the session. Further interrogate your data using the built-in assembly explode and cutting plane tools.
Fueling Innovation in PLM: Eurostep and the HOOPS Web Platform
Eurostep, a leader in the PLM market introduces their ShareAspace application and explores the role of the HOOPS Web Platform in providing CAD data access and web-based engineering graphics to their end users for secure PLM collaboration and engineering business intelligence.
Publishing 3D Data to PDF, CAD Standards and HTML
Companies like Aras and SolidWorks are using HOOPS Publish to create powerful 3D PDF smart reports that include interactive 3D models, dynamic parts lists and tables. Enable visual collaboration in a web browser with the export to HTML feature. Interoperability is critical to PLM users, and HOOPS Publish enables your application to export to standards like JT and STEP AP 242 for downstream use and archival.
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