Helping design and engineering professionals discover, evaluate and specify technologies and processes that shorten the design cycle and enable success.
April 2026 Special Focus Issue: Generative Design
In this Special Focus Issue, Digital Engineering takes a look at how generative design solutions can be used across different types of design problems and with a variety of manufacturing approaches to accelerate design space exploration, and…
Electrum utilizes the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud to develop their new electric motorcycle
Electrum, a new brand of electric motorcycles, utilizes the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Their mission is to support Indonesia’s shift to low-carbon, sustainable transport and to ultimately help the country’s government achieve its vision of net…
Tech Soft 3D, provider of engineering software development tools, and NVIDIA announced a collaboration centered around Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) and the NVIDIA Omniverse platform.
Tech Soft 3D has also officially joined the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) and will be contributing jointly with NVIDIA and other alliance members to the continued development and definition of the OpenUSD standard. Since 2022, NVIDIA has been licensing HOOPS Exchange, Tech Soft 3D’s CAD data access toolkit, to enable native CAD file conversion into OpenUSD—an important step in allowing developers to build 3D digital twin solutions across industries.
With the latest release of HOOPS Exchange, developers can export data directly from popular CAD applications to USD, the foundational format for the NVIDIA Omniverse development platform and an enabler of 3D interoperability across AI and simulation workflows and applications. This new capability supports high-fidelity translation of engineering data for use in visualization, simulation, and large-scale digital twin environments developed on Omniverse libraries.
“This evolution of HOOPS Exchange is a huge leap forward for the engineering software community,” says Gavin Bridgeman, chief technology officer, of Tech Soft 3D. “Our mission has always been to empower developers with the best tools to unlock the full value of their rich engineering data. By enabling export to USD, we’re accelerating how that data fuels next-gen digital twins, immersive simulations, and AI-powered experiences across both consumer and industrial applications.”
"Tech Soft 3D’s investment in USD is great news for the entire industrial and CAD ecosystem," says Aaron Luk, director of Product Management at NVIDIA. "HOOPS offers an unparalleled opportunity for CAD users to seamlessly connect their data to USD, unleashing the immense power of its composition capabilities to aggregate diverse data sources and construct comprehensive digital twins for industrial and physical AI use cases."
Those in the Tech Soft 3D developer ecosystem can now better integrate with the OpenUSD ecosystem.
Tech Soft 3D is a provider of engineering software development toolkits and industrial applications for CAD and CAE data conversion, visualization, and simulation. Established in 1996 and headquartered in Bend, OR, Tech Soft 3D has additional offices in the USA, France, England, Japan, Germany, and Norway. Tech Soft 3D is backed by investment firm Battery Ventures.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.
DE's editors contribute news and new product announcements to Digital Engineering. Press releases may be sent to them via [email protected].
Follow DE
Join over 90,000 engineering professionals who get fresh engineering news as soon as it is published.
About Us · Contact Us · Editorial Team · Advertising · Privacy Policy · Subscriber Services · © 2026 Digital Engineering 24/7 · Peerless Media