CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
17 October 2007
Product News
Open Design Alliance and Tech Soft 3D Announce Integration; HOOPS-Based Applications May Now Seamlessly Read DGN Files
The Open Design Alliance (ODA), a non-profit industry consortium committed to promoting the open exchange of CAD data now and in the future, and Tech Soft 3D ( TS3D ), a leading provider of core graphics components to the engineering software industry, today announced a partnership whereby TS3D has integrated the ODA's DGNdirect libraries with the HOOPS graphics component.
With this integration, any HOOPS-based application developer who also becomes a member of the Open Design Alliance may immediately add support for reading DGN files to their application. The work of connecting these two high-level SDKs has been completed and will be made available as part of the HOOPS v16.0 release in the coming weeks.
ODA President, Arnold van der Weide, commented, "We're pleased that the community of HOOPS-based applications now has such easy access to DGN. Developers wishing to use our DGNdirect libraries and the HOOPS graphics engine in tandem will save significant time and effort, and will know that this work was completed by experienced developers who are knowledgeable with each SDK."
"We continue to seek ways to help our customers develop more robust applications, reduce their R&D costs, and get their applications to market more quickly. DGN is obviously a highly used format within engineering and we're excited to make DGN import so accessible to the entire HOOPS community," added Ron Fritz, TS3D Managing Partner.
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