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Business Wire
12 hours ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Tech Soft 3D Joins AOUSD, Adds Support to Accelerate 3D Interoperability with CAD in OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse Workflows
BEND, Ore. & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tech Soft 3D, a leading provider of engineering software development tools, and NVIDIA announced a collaboration centered around Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) and the NVIDIA Omniverse™ platform. "Tech Soft 3D's investment in USD is great news for the entire industrial and CAD ecosystem," says Aaron Luk, Director of Product Management at NVIDIA. Tech Soft 3D has also officially joined the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) and will be contributing jointly with NVIDIA and other alliance members to the continued development and definition of the OpenUSD standard. Since 2022, NVIDIA has been licensing HOOPS Exchange, Tech Soft 3D's powerful CAD data access toolkit, to enable native CAD file conversion into OpenUSD — a critical step in allowing developers to build 3D digital twin solutions across industries. Now, with the latest release of HOOPS Exchange, developers can export data directly from the most popular CAD applications to USD, the foundational format for the NVIDIA Omniverse development platform and a key enabler of 3D interoperability across AI and simulation workflows and applications. This new capability supports seamless, high-fidelity translation of engineering data for use in visualization, simulation, and large-scale digital twin environments developed on Omniverse libraries. 'This evolution of HOOPS Exchange is a huge leap forward for the engineering software community,' said Gavin Bridgeman, CTO of Tech Soft 3D. 'Our mission has always been to empower developers with the best tools to unlock the full value of their rich engineering data. By enabling export to USD, we're accelerating how that data fuels next-gen digital twins, immersive simulations, and AI-powered experiences across both consumer and industrial applications.' With HOOPS Exchange now supporting export to USD, developers can bring rich engineering data from over 30 CAD file formats—including CATIA®, STEP, SOLIDWORKS®, and many others—into any 3D application that supports the USD format, enabling powerful workflows across a broad and growing ecosystem of USD-compatible tools. As USD rapidly becomes the interoperability standard for aggregating 3D and other digital content at scale, this capability empowers engineering software developers to deliver seamless, high-fidelity experiences for visualization, simulation, and digital twin creation across the entire product lifecycle. 'Tech Soft 3D's investment in USD is great news for the entire industrial and CAD ecosystem,' says Aaron Luk, Director of Product Management at NVIDIA. 'HOOPS offers an unparalleled opportunity for CAD users to seamlessly connect their data to USD, unleashing the immense power of its composition capabilities to aggregate diverse data sources and construct comprehensive digital twins for industrial and physical AI use cases.' Those in the Tech Soft 3D developer ecosystem can now better integrate with the OpenUSD ecosystem, empowering thousands of engineering software developers to explore and innovate without barriers. About Tech Soft 3D Tech Soft 3D is the leading provider of engineering software development toolkits and industrial applications for CAD & CAE data conversion, visualization, and simulation. Established in 1996 and headquartered in Bend, Oregon, Tech Soft 3D has additional offices in the USA, France, England, Japan, Germany, and Norway. Tech Soft 3D is backed by investment firm Battery Ventures.
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Simerics, Inc. and Tech Soft 3D Announce Simerics-CAD Software
Simerics-CAD enables Simulation Analysts to use integrated CAD for high-end Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) preprocessing, model setup, boundary condition assignments, and more in an integrated user experience that utilizes both Simerics-MP/MP+ and Tech Soft 3D components BELLEVUE, Wash., March 31, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As simulation cycle times become essential to reducing the number of hardware prototypes and overall operating costs, mechanical engineers will find the embedded CAD solution they need in Simerics-MP/MP+. Simerics leveraged Tech Soft 3D toolkits to save development time while providing a quality experience in preparing and editing CAD models. HOOPS Exchange offers support for 30+ of the most popular formats and includes a powerful integration with the world's leading modeling kernel, Siemens Parasolid. By licensing both in their core products, Simerics was able to provide an unsurpassed user experience for preparing and editing CAD models. From this foundation, Simerics-CAD offers users the ability to streamline the design and testing process into one efficient workflow. By combining modeling and testing into a single cycle, Simerics-CAD reduces user steps, saves time, and improves outcomes within a single product. Through their partnership, Simerics, Inc. and Tech Soft 3D have empowered users to significantly reduce the time and cost associated with CFD simulation for improved design performance. Commenting on the software, Ron Fritz, CEO of Tech Soft 3D, said: "The Simerics team outdid themselves developing Simerics-CAD for customers to use on-premise or in the cloud. It is rare that you have the same inviting user experience for both platforms with full functionality. We're proud Simerics selected our team for this important application and strategic partnership, and we look forward to a long-term partnership with Simerics and success with Simerics-CAD. "Through the dedicated collaboration of both parties, Simerics-CAD was developed in a fraction of the time, to become a simple yet powerful software solution to address the increasingly important CFD design process." Rich Moore, Executive Vice President of Strategy, OEMs, and Partners at Simerics, shared his thoughts on the partnership, saying, "Our strategic partnership with Tech Soft 3D has enabled the development and offering of a comprehensive simulation CAD solution at half the price of multi-software workflows in today's simulation software market. With Tech Soft 3D, we are bringing an entirely streamlined workflow to simulation with both modeling and CAD exchange domain expertise and CFD domain expertise in one affordable solution. We know that the use of modern CFD deserves a better workflow from leaders that understand the problems and excessive costs of traditional CFD workflows." The global partnership provides the latest capabilities from Simerics providing the simulation industry with unmatched affordability, usability, and accuracy. Mechanical engineers have immediate access to powerful CFD through Simerics-CAD for digital prototyping early in the design stage, throughout the entire R&D cycle, and across the entire enterprise. About Tech Soft 3D Tech Soft 3D is the leading provider of engineering software development toolkits and industrial applications for CAD & CAE data conversion, visualization, and simulation. Established in 1996 and headquartered in Bend, Oregon, Tech Soft 3D has additional offices in the USA, France, England, Japan, Germany and Norway. Tech Soft 3D is backed by investment firm Battery Ventures. For more information, please contact marketing@ or visit About Simerics, Inc. Simerics is headquartered in Bellevue, WA, and are the developers of Simerics-MP/MP+; Rhino Flow RT; Orca3D Marine CFD; Creo Flow Analysis; Simerics-MP CFD for Fusion 360; CFTurbo SMP and SimScale all leading simulation products. Simerics and our partners serve several vertical industries: Auto, Aerospace, Pumps, Valves, Compressors, Marine, Heat Exchangers, Electronics and eMotors, Turbine, Oil and Gas and general CFD problems. For more information, please contact or visit View source version on Contacts Media Contacts Tech Soft 3DJonathan Girroirmarketing@ SimetricsRich Sign in to access your portfolio
