Collaboration Takes Mobile CAD Experience to a New Level

Shapr3D, the mobile 3D CAD modeling company, announced a collaboration with Siemens PLM Software and Tech Soft 3D to create the world’s first CAD system to run Siemens’ Parasolid software and HOOPS Exchange natively on iOS, and specifically the iPad Pro. This integrates solid modeling and data translation locally within the app, taking mobile CAD experience to a new level. By integrating Parasolid and Hoops Exchange with Shapr3D’s touch screen interface, the trio of companies are delivering desktop modeling capabilities to engineers and designers on a tablet.

Siemens’ Parasolid is a 3D geometric modeling component, while HOOPS Exchange is a leading CAD translation software development kit (SDK). By integrating these two technologies with Shapr3D’s precision touch screen interface, engineering and design professionals now have the power of desktop modeling on a tablet, the iPad Pro. This announcement comes after securing a seed round of funding led by InReach Ventures in August 2017. Siemens PLM Software has a proven track-record of making Parasolid openly available to other software vendors, so that designers and engineers working in different domains can design, edit and share Parasolid models, regardless of their choice of application. According to the company, working closely with Shapr3D accelerated the release of Parasolid on iOS, which has enabled them to make Parasolid available to users and developers of apps for the iPad Pro.

While most of its users have been professionals, such as product designers, engineers, architects, jewelry designers and 3D printing hobbyists, they also have users from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Duke, Columbia, Cambridge, University of Tokyo, Singapore Polytechnic and many other schools worldwide. The educational license is being given free as the company sees this as an opportunity to empower as many students as possible, all over the world, to fuel their creativity and design aspirations.

Keywords: Siemens PLM Software, Shapr3D, Tech Soft 3D, Parasolid, HOOPS Exchange, Collaboration, ARC Advisory Group.