HOOPS Scene   Volume Four 2006

PRODUCT UPDATES

Join the WebCast on September 7th

The strongest HOOPS release ever is now out and available to our customers. Some of the highlights include: optimizations for rendering AEC and point cloud data, new file format support, bounded cutting planes, significant enhancements to the quality our text rendering and much more.

Find out more about the HOOPS 14.0
Check out the Latest File Format Updates (pdf)

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Gavin Bridgeman, our Director of Product Strategy will be leading a webcast to review the main features of HOOPS 14.0 and how you can use them to improve your application. He'll also be sharing details of our plans for the upcoming HOOPS 15.0 release.

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Date: Thursday, September 7th
Time: 11am PST

HOOPS SURVEY

Help Extend the HOOPS Framework and
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In order to better serve our clients, Tech Soft 3D wants to know more about what 2D/3D File Formats are important to you. Please fill out our survey so we can better understand your translation and file format needs. In just 10 questions & 2 minutes we'll enter you in a drawing to win a 30G iPOD!

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Tech Soft Employees and their families are not eligible for the drawing.

CLIENT FOCUS

 

MicroSurvey used the HOOPS 3D Application Framework to rapidly develop FieldGenius, an impressive and complete Window's CE-based solution for surveyors.

Read the Case Study

"Using HOOPS/3dAF we have been able to greatly enhance the attractiveness of our FieldGenius offering. We delivered a feature-rich, high-performance offering on the handheld, which has been very well received. The decision to build upon the HOOPS framework was a wise strategic decision for MicroSurvey.”
Darcy Detlor
President

Who else is using HOOPS?

MEET THE TEAM

David Sachitano
Member of Technical Staff

Rumored to be one of the hippest guys on the TS3D team, David works on programming and technical support.

Find out more about David

TRAINING DATES

Dates: October 9th - 12th, November 28th - December 1st
Location: Berkeley, CA

The program involves 3 days of classroom sessions and programming exercises followed by 1 day of one-on-one assistance for application-specific issues or custom prototyping.

Get more information on the course.

PROGRAMMERS' NOTES

Technical Article

Exporting PDF Documents

With the HOOPS 3D Application Framework, you can now export PDF files directly from your application. There's built-in support for both 2d and 3d PDF files. The MVO class HIOUtilityPDF can be used to save both 2D and 3D PDF files. When creating a 2D PDF, the PDF driver is used. When creating a 3D PDF file, the MVO class HIOUtilityU3D is used to embed a U3D model directly into a skeleton PDF Document that is created on the fly.

Technical Question

We’re looking for a way to insert GD&T strings into our HOOPS-based viewer. Is there a built-in font for GD&T, or another simple way to insert GD&T strings?

Technical Answer:

HOOPS does not provide a built-in font for GD&T, but does support TrueType fonts and text strings. If you locate and install a GD&T font, you can insert GD&T text strings into HOOPS and they will be rendered as part of the 3D scene.

Got questions about the HOOPS 3D Product Suite? Visit the HOOPS Forum.