| HOOPS Visualize | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Tech Soft 3D |
| Stable release | 2022 |
| Written in | C++, C# |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows 10,Linux (CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 / glibc 2.17), macOS 10.9, iOS 11.0,Android (operating system) 5.1,Xamarin[1] |
| Platform | x86, x86-64, ARM64, armeabi-v7a, arm64-v8a[1] |
| Type | 3D computer graphics |
| License | Proprietary software |
| Website | www |
HOOPS Visualize is a 3D computer graphics software designed to render graphics across both mobile and desktop platforms.[2] HOOPS Visualize provides 3D Graphics API to render CAD models. It's part of the HOOPS 3D Application Framework SDK. Since June 2018 it's licensed via Siemens PLM Software.[3]
The HOOPS 3D Graphics System was originally developed in the mid-1980s in the CADIF Lab atCornell University. Ithaca Software later formed to commercialize the technology. Subsequently, HOOPS was widely adopted forComputer-Aided Design (CAD),Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) andComputer-Aided Engineering (CAE) software.
In 1993, Autodesk, Inc. acquired Ithaca Software.[4] In 1996, HOOPS was spun out of Autodesk by Tech Soft 3D, Inc.,[5] which continues to develop and sell the HOOPS 3D Graphics System under the name HOOPS Visualize. The software is made available free of charge to educational institutions.
The program features a unified API that allows users to add interactive 3D visualization to both desktop and mobile applications. HOOPS Visualize provides a hierarchical scene management engine capable of handling a range of graphics entities, together with a graphics pipeline and interaction handling algorithms. It includes clash detection, multi-plane sectioning, and large model visualization, along with many other features.
Features include:
Internally it usesOpenGL orDirectX (Windows).[3] Tech Soft 3D has developed its own framework for event handling.[3]
Thegraphics kernel (Core Graphics) is based on the hierarchichalscene graph data structures.[3]
| File format | Imports | Exports | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HSF | Yes | Yes | HOOPS Stream File |
| OBJ | Yes | Partial | Limited export |
| STL | Yes | No | |
| PTS/PTX/XYZ | Yes | ? | |
| Parasolid | Yes | ? | All file formats supported by Kernel |
| Autodesk RealDWG | Yes | ? | All file formats supported by SDK |
| PostScript | No | Yes | |
| No | Yes | ||
| DXT1 | No | Yes | |
| DXT3 | No | Yes | |
| DXT5 | No | Yes | |
| JPG | No | Yes | |
| PNG | No | Yes | |
| TGA | No | Yes | |
| RGB | No | Yes | |
| RGBA | No | Yes | |
| ARGB | No | Yes | |
| Grayscale | No | Yes | |
| Mapped8 | No | Yes |