HOOPS® Product Suite v10 Supports Mac OS X

Powerful Graphics Toolkits Speed Development of 2D/3D Engineering Software for Mac OS X

Oakland, CA – January 6, 2004 - Tech Soft 3D (TS3D), a leading provider of component technology to the CAD/CAM/CAE industry, today announced that version 10.0 of its leading-edge HOOPS® component toolkits for building 2D/3D applications now support Mac OS X. This new support for Mac OS X makes it possible for the 150+ companies shipping applications built with HOOPS components to more easily port to Mac OS X and greatly facilitates the rapid development of new 2D/3D applications for the Mac.

"The hundreds of application developers relying on our core HOOPS graphics components have come to expect TS3D to enable their entry into new markets and leverage new platforms,” said Ron Fritz, managing partner of TS3D. “This port of the HOOPS Product Suite to Mac OS X will serve as a significant catalyst to more applications being built for, and existing applications being ported to, the powerful Mac OS X platform.”

Ron Okamoto, Apple’s vice president of developer relationships added, “Having a powerful component like HOOPS ported to Mac OS X is an exciting development for Apple because it offers a highly leveraged way to facilitate the creation and porting of potentially hundreds of new 2D/3D engineering applications for the Mac OS X platform. We expect this to be a significant boost to the growing community of CAD and related engineering applications running on Mac OS X.”

About HOOPS 3D Product Suite

HOOPS 3D Product Suite is a set of extensible, high-level components that dramatically simplifies the design, development and maintenance of high-performance, interactive 2D/3D applications for Mac OS X, Windows, UNIX, LINUX, Windows CE devices or the Web. SolidWorks, Autodesk, PTC, Dassault Systemes, MSC.Software, Fluent, Bentley, COADE, CADKEY, Hitachi Zosen, and Proficiency license HOOPS technology to help them build powerful 2D/3D engineering software products faster and more cost-effectively than would otherwise be possible.

HOOPS components provide the base infrastructure for building highly-customized, high performance applications. Developers work from a high level to extend and customize the framework, taking advantage of the power of the underlying set of components and, rather than attempting to re-invent the vast functionality already encapsulated within the HOOPS product set, they can focus their development efforts on their true value-add.

About Tech Soft 3D

Tech Soft 3D (TS3D) provides premier customer driven development tools, consulting and support services enabling its partners to rapidly deliver world-class technical software. TS3D develops the HOOPS 3D Application Framework, HOOPS Stream Toolkit and HOOPS Net Server, all components designed to dramatically simplify the design, development and maintenance of high-performance, interactive 2D and 3D applications built for PCs, UNIX workstations, Linux, MAC OS X and Windows-CE based handheld devices.

HOOPS technology has been incorporated into over 175 commercial software applications, including many of the leaders in CAD/CAM and CAE software. The company maintains corporate headquarters in Oakland, California and can be reached at www.techsoft3d.com.

Tech Soft 3D Press Contact:
Yanick Fluhmann
510.883.2180 x202
yanick@techsoft3d.com