Supported Formats

The HOOPS Communicator import/export capabilities are based on HOOPS Exchange. The following formats are available with a HOOPS Communicator license.

Supported Import Formats

Format Version Extensions
HOOPS Stream Format [1] All versions HSF
OBJ [2] All versions OBJ
BCF [3] Up to 2.1 BCF
PDF [4] All versions PDF
PRC All versions PRC
3D point cloud All versions PTS, PTX
Sketchup Up to 2023 (Windows only) SKP
Stereo Lithography All versions STL
Universal 3D All versions U3D
VRML v1.0 and v2.0 WRL, WRML
3D point cloud All versions XYZ

Supported Export Formats

Format Extensions
BCF [3] BCF
HOOPS Communicator StreamCache SC, SC, SCZ
HOOPS Stream Format [1] HSF
HTML HTML
PNG PNG
PRC PRC
Stereo Lithography STL

Footnotes

[1](1, 2) The following HSF attributes are not supported and are ignored during SC Export: callback, camera, clip regions, color map, condition, cutting planes, edge pattern, edge weight, handedness, heuristics, images, lights, line pattern, line pattern definition, line weight, local textures, marker size, marker symbol, markers, mesh, named styles, references, rendering options, sub-geometry attributes (colors and visibility), selectability, styles, text alignment, text font, text spacing, texture matrix, visibility, window, window frame, window pattern.
[2]HOOPS Converter only supports tessellated data. MTL files can be provided to define materials.
[3](1, 2) Only available through the Web Viewer directly.
[4]The PDF importer only imports 3D geometry - 2D objects will not be imported.

Additional Import Formats Available to HOOPS Web Platform or HOOPS Exchange Licensees

Format Version Extensions
3MF 1, 2, 3 3MF
ACIS Up to 2023 SAT, SAB
AutoCAD Up to AutoCAD 2024 DWG, DXF
Autodesk Inventor Up to 2025 IPT, IAM
Autodesk Navisworks 2012 to 2025 NWD
CATIA V4 Up to 4.2.5 MODEL, SESSION, DLV, EXP
CATIA V5 Up to V5-6 R2024 (R34) CATDrawing, CATPart, CATProduct, CATShape, CGR
CATIA V6 / 3DExperience Up to V5-6 R2024 (R34) 3DXML
COLLADA Any DAE
Creo - Pro/E Pro/Engineer 19.0 to Creo 11 ASM, NEU, PRT, XAS, XPR
DGN 7, 8 DGN
FBX ASCII: from 7100 to 7500. Binary: all. FBX
GLTF Version 2.0 only GLTF, GLB
I-deas Up to 13.x (NX 5), NX I-deas 6 MF1, ARC, UNV, PKG
IFC IFC2x Editions 2, 3 and 4 IFC, IFCZIP
IGES 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 IGS, IGES
JT Up to v10.9 JT
NX - Unigraphics UG11 to UG18, UG NX, NX5 to NX12, NX1847 to NX2406 PRT
Parasolid Up to v37.0 X_B, X_T, XMT, XMT_TXT
Revit 2015 to 2025 RVT, RFA
Rhino3D 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 3DM
Solid Edge 1 to 20, ST1 to ST10, 2019 to 2024 ASM, PAR, PWD, PSM
SolidWorks From 97 up to 2024 SLDASM, SLDPRT
STEP AP 203 E1/E2, AP 214, AP 242 E1/E2(beta)/E3(beta) STP, STEP, STP.Z
VDA-FS Version 1.0 and 2.0 VDA

Additional Export Formats Available to HOOPS Web Platform or HOOPS Exchange Licensees

Format Extensions
3MF 3MF 1,2,3
JT JT
STEP STP, STEP
X_T X_T

Additional Export Formats Available to HOOPS Web Platform or HOOPS Publish Licensees

Format Extensions
PDF PDF