Tech Soft 3D HOOPS AI is the first framework aimed at unlocking AI and machine learning for CAD data, following a successful beta program with over 30 companies participating.
Software vendors and engineers working in PLM, MES, CAM, manufacturing, and other teams working with complex 3D datasets looking to integrate 3D engineering data into modern machine learning pipelines can now leverage HOOPS AI to support data preparation and model experimentation, enabling teams to run hundreds or thousands of models simultaneously.
This rapid iteration allows small teams to shorten software development cycles from months to weeks. As a result, the capabilities teams can create include automatic part classification and metadata enrichment, manufacturing feature detection, similarity search and duplicate detection, design reuse and optimization, and more.
New since limited release, includes official support for both Windows and Linux. The latter is especially important for AI and data processing pipelines, allowing developers to more easily integrate HOOPS AI with modern ML infrastructure.
With decades of experience delivering CAD data access, performance and accuracy to hundreds of partners including Ansys, Siemens, Hexagon, Nvidia Omniverse, Unreal Engine and Unity 3D, Tech Soft 3D says its data translators have processed more CAD data than any other toolkit.
Future planned developments include Python Access to expose more CAD data, particularly for Product Manufacturing Information (PMI). Tech Soft 3D says its long-term vision for the product is to capture specialized engineering knowledge in CAD models and leverage it across the team.
Although the current working examples of HOOPS AI are trained on public datasets, the goal is for organizations to train using their own private data and customize machine learning programs to suit their needs.
“The official release of HOOPS AI marks an important step at Tech Soft 3D as we lead the way in bringing AI to engineering data. For the first time, developers have a framework specifically designed to make CAD data usable in modern machine learning workflows,” said Gavin Bridgman, CTO, Tech Soft 3D.
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