By providing these robust, pre-built components, Tech Soft 3D allows its partners?which include some of the largest names in engineering like Adobe, Autodesk, Dassault Systems, Trimble, and ANSYS?to accelerate their development, reduce risk, and focus on creating their unique, market-facing features instead of reinventing core 3D functionality.

Core Business Model: The Strategic Technology Partnership

Tech Soft 3D's business model is not a traditional transactional sales process. It is built on what the company calls a "Strategic Technology Partnership."

• Long-Term Licensing: The company licenses its SDKs to its partners, who pay for the right to integrate this technology into their commercial products.
• No Commission Sales: The company's "Partner Development Managers" are not paid on commission. This model is designed to foster long-term, collaborative relationships (the average partnership length is over 13 years) rather than short-term sales.
• Deep Support: The company acts as an extension of its partners' development teams, providing deep technical support and expertise to ensure successful integration and long-term success.
• Bundled Solutions: Tech Soft 3D also resells and bundles key components from other industry leaders (like Siemens' Parasolid modeling kernel), providing developers with a one-stop-shop for a complete, integrated stack of engineering software components.

Products and Services: Developer Toolkits & Enterprise Apps

Tech Soft 3D's offerings are organized into two main categories: Developer Toolkits (SDKs) for software builders and Enterprise Applications for end-user companies.

Developer Toolkits (SDKs)

This is the company's core business. The toolkits are collectively known as the HOOPS Platform, which provides a complete framework for building engineering applications.

• HOOPS Exchange

  • What it is: The industry's leading CAD data translation SDK.
  • What it does: Provides a single, easy-to-use API to read over 30 2D and 3D file formats (both mechanical CAD and AEC) and write to over 10 formats. This allows an application to import complex models from systems like CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, Creo, NX, Revit, and IFC with all data intact. It accesses B-Rep (precise geometry), PMI (Product Manufacturing Information), model tree, and metadata.

• HOOPS Visualize

  • What it is: A high-performance 3D graphics engine for desktop and mobile applications.
  • What it does: Provides a powerful graphics kernel for rapidly rendering complex 2D and 3D engineering models. It is platform-independent, allowing developers to write code once and deploy it on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS. It also includes advanced features like clash detection, sectioning, and large model visualization.

• HOOPS Communicator

  • What it is: A high-performance 3D graphics engine for web applications.
  • What it does: A robust toolkit for streaming and rendering massive 3D models in any major web browser (desktop or mobile) with no plugins required. It is built for creating cloud-based CAD, CAE, and BIM applications, PLM systems, and digital twins.

• HOOPS Publish

  • What it is: An SDK for creating interactive 3D PDFs and HTML reports.
  • What it does: Allows applications to export 3D data, PMI, and other metadata into a rich, interactive 3D PDF document. This enables model-based definition (MBD), technical data packages (TDPs), and work instructions that non-technical users can access with the free Adobe Reader.

• HOOPS Luminate

  • What it is: A new graphics SDK for photorealistic and advanced real-time rendering.
  • What it does: Integrates with Chaos' V-Ray renderer to add high-end, physically accurate rendering capabilities to engineering applications for design review and marketing.

• CEETRON SDKs (for CAE)

  • What it is: A specialized suite of toolkits for Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) or simulation applications.
  • What it does: Provides tools for CAE data access (reading results from various solvers), CAE visualization (displaying complex simulation results like fluid dynamics), and meshing (preparing models for simulation).

• Resold & Partner Toolkits

  • Parasolid: Tech Soft 3D is the premier reseller of this world-leading 3D solid modeling kernel from Siemens. It is the geometric "engine" that powers applications like SOLIDWORKS and NX.
  • Polygonica: A high-powered mesh processing SDK used for 3D printing, additive manufacturing, and simulation.

Enterprise Applications

Through recent acquisitions (like Theorem and SpinFire), Tech Soft 3D also offers end-user applications directly to enterprise customers (e.g., in manufacturing, aerospace, automotive).

• SpinFire:

  • What it is: A powerful, easy-to-use desktop and cloud-based CAD viewer and analysis tool for non-engineers.
  • What it does: Allows users in departments like sales, quoting, manufacturing, and procurement to open, view, measure, mark up, and analyze 2D and 3D files from any major CAD system without needing an expensive CAD license.

• Theorem Solutions:

  • What it is: A suite of CAD translation and Extended Reality (XR) solutions.
  • What it does: Provides tools for direct, high-fidelity CAD-to-CAD data translation (e.g., CATIA to NX). It also offers solutions for preparing and viewing 3D CAD data in Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) devices.

• Tetra4D:

  • What it is: A suite of applications for creating and enriching 3D PDFs.
  • What it does: These are user-facing tools (often plugins for Adobe Acrobat Pro) that allow users to convert CAD files into interactive 3D PDFs and build rich, custom templates for technical documentation, work instructions, and reports.