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HOOPS Communicator

3D Visualization SDK for the Web

HOOPS Communicator is a browser-based 3D modeling and cloud CAD SDK for high-quality rendering and seamless integration in design, engineering, and manufacturing. With customizable APIs, it accelerates web app development, offering optimized performance, comprehensive 3D data access, and out-of-the-box functionality.

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Try It Out Here

For a live demonstration of some of HOOPS Communicator's functionality, simply interact with the pre-loaded 3D model in the window below. The camshaft model shows both geometry and product manufacturing information (PMI) in the form of dimensions and tolerances.

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Unlock the Web

HOOPS Communicator provides you with the capability to easily leverage the web. This advanced SDK offers robust and flexible tools for quickly rendering even large 3D datasets while enabling seamless integration into design, engineering and manufacturing applications — all with enhanced accessibility, logistics and security.

HOOPS Communicator offers comprehensive functionality for editing workflows with Spatial modelers ACIS and CGM, as well as viewing workflows with Spatial’s 3D InterOp. Easily and quickly integrate this powerful solution into your next web application. Get the key from Spatial and use HOOPS Communicator to unlock web-based visualization.

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Realize the Benefits of Web-Based Visualization

Powerful 3D Graphics Engine for Web Applications

Customizable 3D graphics Software Development Toolkit (SDK) for high-quality rendering of web-based applications.

Optimized Performance

Fast rendering of even large 3D datasets with multitudes of bodies and high triangle counts.

Easy and Comprehensive Access to 3D Data

Access product structures and configurations, both geometric and graphical data, such as product-manufacturing information (PMI), model trees and physical properties (volumes, volume centers).

Immediate Out-of-the-Box Functionality

Supports a myriad of diverse workflows across a broad range of industry segments with no need to recreate like open-source or direct in WebGL.

Flexible, Easy Deployment

A wide set of APIs allow developers to connect and render 3D data — data that easily integrates with Spatial's SDK components, such as 3D InterOp, and the ACIS and CGM modelers.

Imagine the Possibilities on the Web

From on-demand sheet metal fabrication, online robotics training or collaborative plant design. Web-based 3D visualization enables these types of applications to do more, almost anywhere, anytime. HOOPS Communicator opens the door to many new possibilities on the web.

Functionality for Design,
Engineering and Manufacturing
Applications

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Data Structure Access and Flexibility

Model trees and underlying scene graphs allow flexible access to geometry, graphical data and attributes.
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User Interaction and Camera Manipulation

Enable granular selection (picking) and highlighting of objects, as well as comprehensive camera manipulations (pan, rotate, zoom).
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Appearance

Add and customize colors, transparencies, lighting, reflection and shadow effects, textures, and realistic materials.
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Diverse Inspection Tools

Tools to aid inspections of assemblies and individual parts add cutting planes, assembly explosions, 2D/3D markups and measurements.
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Performance Enhancers

Implement occlusions and/or remove hidden lines to enhance rendering performance.
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Multi-Platform, Browser 3D Modeling Support and Testing

Windows and Linux are supported on servers and major browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Safari. Includes robust testing before every release.

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