Tech Soft makes HOOPS and other CAD/CAM/CAE/PLMish toolkits, which the company says are used by over 500 applications –data exchange, visualization, AR/VR, publishing CAD or CAE data to PDF and more– that run on “hundreds of millions of computers worldwide”.
Ceetron also makes toolkits, but theirs are used to visualize simulation results. According to Tech Soft, Ceetron’s “desktop and server-side components … read and process cross-solver CAE data, and to create and render CAE visualization models. They also provide modern and mature technology for WebGL-based visualization used for remote sharing and post-processing of CAE models and results”.
Tech Soft 3D CEO Ron Fritz said that “Ceetron has been fueling innovation in CAE for 20+ years and Tech Soft 3D is excited to expand its portfolio to better serve our partners in the CAE space”. CTO Gavin Bridgeman adds that Ceetron’s tools will be integrated with HOOPS: “This acquisition is about making the HOOPS platform more attractive to a broader set of users in the engineering software world by enabling them to do everything they need to do with their CAD data. As a component provider, there’s some important things to do to support the innovation that’s happening in this space.”
