{"id":78,"date":"2017-09-25T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/PLM-Components-Blog\/HOOPS-Exchange-2017-Service-Pack-2-released\/ba-p\/434616"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:01:39","slug":"hoops-exchange-2017-service-pack-2-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/hoops-exchange-2017-service-pack-2-released\/","title":{"rendered":"HOOPS Exchange 2017 Service Pack 2 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>HOOPS Exchange 2017 Service Pack 2 has been released by our partner Tech Soft 3D and is available from Siemens PLM Software.<BR \/>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>HOOPS Exchange now provides beta support for access to a CAD model\u2019s feature tree, which captures the steps used to design a part. Feature trees \u2013 including hole and pattern descriptions \u2013 can now be accessed from the data of&nbsp; NX\u2122 software, CATIA<SPAN>\u00ae<\/SPAN> V5&nbsp;software and Creo<SPAN>\u00ae<\/SPAN> software.<BR \/>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/hoops-exhange-can-import-NX-model-features-800-1.jpg\" alt=\"hoops exhange can import NX model features -800.jpg\" title=\"hoops exhange can import NX model features -800.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/P><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">NX CAD model with feature tree now accessible through HOOPS Exchange<BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Tech Soft 3D has also continued to enhance the tight technical integration of HOOPS Exchange and Parasolid. As a result, HOOPS Exchange can now read facet data from Parasolid files. It can also write facet data into Parasolid from STL, IFC, VRML, U3D and CGR files. These operations are important steps for supporting Parasolid <a title=\"Convergent Modeling technology\" href=\"https:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/PLM-Components-Blog\/Parasolid-with-Convergent-Modeling\/ba-p\/397221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Convergent Modeling\u2122 technology<\/A> which enables editing of CAD data that contains both facets and B-rep. This capability provides massive productivity gains for use cases that involve facetted data like \u201cscan, edit, print\u201d by eliminating the conversion&nbsp;of facets into B-reps.<BR \/>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>HOOPS Exchange and Parasolid customers already benefit from the tight integration of these two components in many other ways:<BR \/>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Models of any supported format are loaded into Parasolid through a single API.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Geometry is imported without translation from CAD applications based on Parasolid, such as Siemens\u2019 NX and Solid Edge\u00ae software, SolidWorks\u00ae software and others.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>For applications not based on Parasolid, the integration maps the CAD data to a valid Parasolid model, automatically invoking healing and repair algorithms when needed based on Parasolid and Bodyshop technology for a higher success rate.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Model definition is imported, preserved and associatively accessible to the Parasolid geometry, including PMI (both visual and semantic), GD&amp;T, product structure and tessellation (facets).<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P>For more details about these and many other enhancements in HOOPS Exchange Service Pack 2, see the <a title=\"HOOPS Exchange service pack 2 - full announcement\" href=\"http:\/\/techsoft3d.com\/hoops-exchange-2017-now-allows-access-feature-trees-hole-pattern-definitions-updates-format-support-exports-faceted-data-siemens-parasolid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">full announcement from Tech Soft 3D<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOOPS Exchange 2017 Service Pack 2 has been released by our partner Tech Soft 3D and is available from Siemens PLM Software.<br \/>\n HOOPS Exchange now provides beta support for access to a CAD mod&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49853,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,7],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hoops-exchange","tag-parasolid"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/hoops-exhange-can-import-NX-model-features-800-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}