HOOPS Access Documentation

HOOPS Access from Tech Soft 3D is a toolkit designed to provide a comprehensive mechanism for accessing data from the model and solution results data files of many important commercial finite element analysis (FEA) software systems used in the fields of mechanical computer aided engineering (MCAE) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

A data model consisting of the notion of a library - dataset - attribute hierarchy is mapped onto the data structure of all model and solution results data files (libraries). The net result being that HOOPS Access allows a consistent interface to finite element data from many sources. HOOPS Access also provides a “native” library which supports both read and write operations. All library formats, whether native or “external” may be accessed through HOOPS Access in an identical manner.