Visualize Large Data Sets

Tech Soft 3D, a provider of software development toolkits to engineering software companies, has announced that Virtalis is using HOOPS Exchange to create rich data sets that fuel enterprise data models that serve as the visualization backbone for multiple types of applications across the enterprise. Virtalis is a pioneer in the AR/VR industry and provider of immersive visualization solutions that cover the full lifecycle of the product, from conceptual design to distribution.

Visionary Render is Virtalis' ?agship platform for importing and visualizing large datasets from a range of sources, while maintaining all the geometry, naming hierarchies, metadata and product and manufacturing information (PMI). Virtalis is focused on supporting industrial applications and manufacturers creating large complex products for aerospace, defense and automotive, as well as construction, geoscience, consumer goods and more. Accurately supporting the formats used in this wide range of industries is critical because companies need to visualize large amounts of data from diverse sources. Being able to review the data in an immersive environment on a one-to-one scale, rather than seeing a 2D view of a 3D object, is effective for communicating to people who are not skilled in CAD.

"When we import CAD data with HOOPS Exchange, we get the data that we expect," said Barry King, Product Owner at Virtalis. "Our customers expect to see reliable data when they are making important decisions based on visualizations, and having reliable and dependable data is one of the most important things for them. What is great about HOOPS is that it supports almost all the formats, including VRML. Our customers have legacy data, and we rely on the fact that HOOPS Exchange supports those formats. Often our customers will challenge us with data and we can say, `no problem.' We can support this wide variety of formats because we have HOOPS behind us."

Virtalis goes beyond visualizing CAD data from an external view by immersing users in the environment where the model may live, allowing them to experience the product.

"We are looking at products in the context of where they sit," said Gavin England, Product Marketing Manager at Virtalis. "We could be looking at a product installed inside a factory, or a building structure coming from building information modeling (BIM) data. In addition to the core formats, being able to bring in data like Revit is key as well."

HOOPS Exchange provides access to a broad range of data including B-Rep geometry, metadata, PMI, model tree, views, persistent I.D.'s, styles, construction geometry, visualization and more-all without depending on any CAD system. This wide-ranging access proved to be an important element in Virtalis' decision-making process.

"When we initially were getting to grips and integrating it, Tech Soft 3D was really responsive and collaborated with us to get the results that we needed," said King. "When we communicate an issue, we always get it ?xed in the next release, and the releases come out steadily and reliably. That is very important and a real benefit for us. Whether they are working with engineering or science data, a lot of customers are learning how much time and money they can save by leveraging immersive visualization and not having to build physical prototypes. This helps them make better business decisions, and Tech Soft 3D plays a critical role in supporting those work?ows."

For more information contact:

Tech Soft 3D

1567 SW Chandler Ave, Suite 100

Bend, OR 97702

541-383-4126

www.techsoft3d.com

Virtalis USA

1952 Woodman Center Drive

Kettering, OH 45420

937-534-9600

www.vertalis.com