HOOPS Exchange Public Roadmap

Last Updated: Apr 17, 2025

This page provides you with some insights about the HOOPS Exchange roadmap. If you are interested in providing input or collaborating on any of the projects below, please contact the HOOPS Exchange Product Manager or Tech Soft 3D support.

1.1. Release Plan and Schedule

See the HOOPS Target General Availability Dates.

1.2. FORMAT UPDATES PLAN

Provisional plan – Subject to change

1.3. SHORT-TERM PROJECTS

Projects planned to be delivered within the next 4 months

• CREO Reader: Support of layers at assembly level

• IFC Reader: Support of IFC 4.3 schema (support of structure changes of some infrastructure classes)

• glTF format improvements:

  • Support of DRACO compression for glTF Reader & Writer

  • Wireframe import/export

• New format support: MicroStation DGN V7 & V8 Reader

  • DGN MicroStation is a CAD software platform developed by Bentley Systems and used in the architectural and engineering industries.

• New format support: PLM/XML reader

  • PLM/XML format is an XML-based file format designed by Siemens PLM Software to facilitate interaction in product lifecycle management.

1.4. MID-TERM PROJECTS

Planned or on-going projects that might be delivered mid-term (up to12 months)

• Hoops Exchange Python API

• VisionOS support

• Step AP242 Edition 4

• New format support: USD Writer

  • USD (Universal Scene Description) is an open framework for 3D data interoperability, enabling collaboration, asset exchange, and real-time rendering across industries, with strong adoption in platforms like NVIDIA Omniverse for digital twins, simulation, and AI-driven workflows.

• Performance:

  • Large assemblies loading time improvement

  • Accelerate selected advanced operations

• Computational Tessellation: new algorithm designed to enable analysis workflows

1.5. LONG-TERM PROJECTS

Longer term projects we are considering

• New format support: Creo View

  • Creo View is becoming more common as an interchange format in manufacturing and PLM workflows.

• New format support: QIF Reader

  • QIF (Quality Information Framework) is a standardized MBD (Model-Based Definition) format designed for interoperability in manufacturing, enabling precise CAD-to-metrology data exchange and improving automation in quality inspection workflows.

• Digital Thread: enhance HOOPS Exchange persistent IDs to better play in many advanced workflows, such as automation workflows, data pipelines, version control, etc

• New format support: IFC Export

  • This new export capability will help design applications in manufacturing, plant design, ship building spaces to share their data with BIM applications. For example, an assembly designed in a CAD software will be shared with a BIM application to federate models. The first version of the IFC Writer will support a subset of the IFC classes and will be delivered as a Beta version in the future.