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File Formats
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**HOOPS AI** leverages the power of **HOOPS Exchange** to read and write a wide variety of file formats without needing to license any additional technology. 
You work through a standard interface, so once you complete an integration, you have access to the large number of formats supported by HOOPS Exchange and can easily access newly supported formats as well as updates to existing versions.

Check the `HOOPS Exchange Supported File Formats <https://docs.techsoft3d.com/hoops/exchange/start/supported-formats.html>`__ page for the complete, always up-to-date matrix of readers and writers.

.. important::

   HOOPS AI workflows require CAD import files that contain **BREP** data. Mesh-only formats are not supported when generating feature-rich datasets.


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