# HOOPS Visualize Desktop 2025.7.0

Note

Change to Product Package

To improve clarity and consistency, HOOPS has adopted a unified naming scheme across all products.

New package names now include product, version, platform, architecture, and compiler details. HOOPS Exchange binaries and headers have been added to the desktop versions of HOOPS Visualize for easier usage of HOOPS Sprocket Exchange.

A new sandbox, mfc_exchange_sandbox, has been added with HOOPS Sprocket Exchange enabled by default.

Product Consolidation FAQ

The HOOPS suite of products has been streamlined and brings a host of changes with it! Read the FAQ for more details.

## Technology Updates

### Library Compatibility Information

Library name | Version | Windows | Linux | OS X | Android | iOS | Notes
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Android NDK | r27 |  |  |  |  |  |
HOOPS Exchange | 2025.7.0 |  |  |  |  |  | Android support is limited. See this explanation.
HOOPS Publish | 2025.7.0 |  |  |  |  |  | Requires SSSE3 instruction set support, Linux support is limited to C++
HOOPS Visualize Web HTML Sprocket | 2025.4.0 |  |  |  |  |  | HC Sprocket only works with Visual Studio toolset 142.
HOOPS Visualize Web Streaming Sprocket (HCA) | 2025.3.0 |  |  |  |  |  | HC Sprocket only works with Visual Studio toolset 142.
.NET Framework | 4.8 |  |  |  |  |  | Required for Visual Studio v14.2 libraries and samples.
.NET Standard | 2.0 |  |  |  |  |  | Required for Visual Studio 2019 (toolset 142) and 2022 (toolset 143).
.NET Core | 8.0 |  |  |  |  |  | Required for Visual Studio 2022 (toolset 143).
Parasolid | 35.1 |  |  |  |  |  | For iOS platforms, support is limited to 64-bit platforms for the Parasolid Sprockets (hps_sprk_parasolid and hps_sprk_exchange_parasolid).
RealDWG | 2023 |  |  |  |  |  | RealDWG 2023 is only compatible with Visual Studio 2019 (v142 toolchain)
RealDWG | 2025 |  |  |  |  |  | RealDWG 2025 is only compatible with Visual Studio 2022 (v143 toolchain)
Qt | 5.12.7 |  |  |  |  |  |
SketchUp | 2023 |  |  |  |  |  | VS2019 Redistributable required, and only x64 Sketchup is supported

## Platform Changes

- Support for all Microsoft Windows 10 editions is scheduled to end in October 2025 in coordination with Microsoft’s scheduled end of life policy.
- Support for OpenGL on macOS is deprecated and will no longer be supported starting in January 2026. Partners will have to migrate to Metal in order to maintain support for Apple devices in the future.

## Enhancements

- A new version of the MFC Sandbox with HOOPS Exchange integration enabled by default has been added to the package.

## Deprecations

- HOOPS Communicator sprocket (HCA) is deprecated and will be removed in an unscheduled future release.

## Fixed Bugs

Issue | Description
--- | ---
SDHV-21274 | Add a default value for Opengl2 and opengl2 mesa hardware driver to have by default a quarter of the RAM as VRAM to enable display list and antialiasing on small integrated GPU where mesa is unable to query the vram amount

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