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1. Accessing a CAD File
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The accompanying notebook ``1_access_a_cad_file.ipynb`` demonstrates how to load CAD data with HOOPS Exchange, inspect model metadata, and export visual assets.

Activate the ``hoops_ai_cpu`` Conda environment described in :doc:`/getting_started/evaluate` before launching JupyterLab.

The code and resources for this tutorial can be found in the `HOOPS-AI-Tutorials <https://github.com/techsoft3d/HOOPS-AI-tutorials/tree/main>`__ Github repository.

.. hint::
   From the ``hoops_ai_tutorials`` folder run ``jupyter lab notebooks/1_access_a_cad_file.ipynb`` to follow along interactively.

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   /tutorials/hoops_ai_tutorials/notebooks/1_access_a_cad_file.ipynb