Software company
TechSoft [4] has offered its
HOOPS 3D [5] graphics component to the LDraw community for FREE to use for developing new software!
According to the
HOOPS 3D [6] web site, it is the "core graphics engine in over 150 shipping applications - ranging from lightweight web plug-ins to heavyweight MCAD packages, CAE pre and post-processors and cover every type of CAD/CAM/CAE solution in between on Windows, UNIX, Linux and event Windows-CE based handheld devices."
Yanick Fluhmann of
TechSoft [7] has offered to spend a little time discussing the software with LDraw developers. If you are a developer who wants to gain access to these tools, you can contact Yanick via email at
yanick@techsoftamerica.com [8].
You can check out the HOOPS 3D Part Viewer via the following links:
- HOOPS 3D Part Viewer [9]
- HOOPS 3D Part Viewer for Parasolid [10]
- HOOPS 3D Part Viewer for ACIS [11]
- Free Development Environment for the full HOOPS/3dAF for Linux [12]
- HOOPS/3dAF Reference Applications [13]
- HOOPS/3dAF Documentation [14]
Mac OS X support is coming in the next release of HOOPS 3D.