HOOPS Exchange 2024.2.0

Format Updates

Format	Updated Version
NX	2312
Parasolid	36.1
Rhino	8

See File Formats for the list of all supported formats.

Physical Material Properties Support

Our support for reading physical material properties from Inventor and SolidWorks files has been improved.

• Inventor: We are now supporting Shear Modulus for isotropic and orthotropic materials.

• SolidWorks:

  • We are now supporting Shear Modulus, Specific Heat, Yield Strength, Tensile Strength, Thermal Conductivity, Poisson Ratio and Thermal Expansion for isotropic materials. We also retrieve the density when no material is applied.

  • Two materials can have the same name if they are stored in different libraries. Thus, we now prepend the name of the library to the name. For example, the material ‘Material’ from the library ‘Library’ is returned with the name ‘Library|Material’.

• Units: All values in A3DMiscMaterialPropertiesData are now returned in SI units, as stated in its documentation.

See Also

• Autodesk Inventor Reader

• SolidWorks Reader

Inventor: Improved Attribute Support

Improvements in the support of Autodesk Inventor attributes -

• Categorization.

• Title & Values retrieval

Creo - Pro/E Multibody Parts Support

We are now supporting multibody parts from Creo Version 7 and onwards.

API Changes

• A new API function A3DMiscSetMaterialProperties() is available to store and set material properties on entities.

• Added a new option m_ppcSearchMaterialLibraryFiles to specify material library files.

Third-Party Libraries Update

Below third-party libraries have been updated:

Library	New Version
ODA	24.12

The binary dependencies have been updated to ODA 24.12. This update fixes several bugs related to our Revit support. All platform packages are updated, except for Android. For more information about package content, see Distributing Your Application.

Fixed Bugs

The list of fixed bugs can be found on the fixed bugs page.