A Quickstart guide for 3D Application Developers to integrating HPS (HOOPS 3D Graphics SDK from Tech Soft 3D)

HOOPS Visualize (HPS) is a product of Tech Soft 3D, it is a CAD platform that enables rapid development of high-performance, cross-platform engineering applications. It helps in visualization which uses highly optimized OpenGL or DirectX drivers which takes full advantage of available graphics hardware. It contains thread-safe C++ and C# interfaces, which internally utilize multi-threading, and also supports GUI frameworks such as MFC, WPF, QT, and Cocoa.

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This blog will help you get started with HPS in your new application using C# and WPF interface.

• First download the HPS binaries and its license file from the TechSoft 3D developer portal website.
• HPS package contains dynamic and static libraries, sandboxes(is a demo viewer for QT, WPF, MFC etc), documentation etc.
• You need to decide the configuration in which you want to build your application like- 32 or 64 bit. Create a 3rd Party folder in your project directory and move the corresponding configuration HPS DLLs in that folder.
• As in this blog covers C# (WPF) integration so you need to add below DLLs as reference in your project solution.

hps_cs_core.dll
hps_cs_sprk.dll
hps_cs_sprk_d3dimage.dll
Hps_cs_sprk_ops.dll
hps_cs_sprk_exchange.dll (For HOOPS Exchange integration in HPS)

• To use the HOOPS DLLs you need to add a HOOPS license to the project (the license is set in a file called hoops_license.cs).
• Copy HOOPS dependency DLL to build folder (bin\x64\(Debug or Release)) or (bin\x86\(Debug or Release)). These DLLs are required to run the application.

d3dcompiler_47.dll
hps_core.dll
hps_directx11.dll
hps_sprk.dll
hps_sprk_dwg.dll
hps_sprk_ops.dll
hps_sprk_exchange.dll (For HOOPS Exchange integration in HPS).

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