BREMEN, Germany and BEND, OR, USA, Jul 1, 2026 — Tech Soft 3D, the leading provider of engineering software development toolkits (SDKs), and Synera, innovators in Agentic AI for engineering and hardware developers, are excited to highlight the release Synera’s Advanced AI module , powered by Tech Soft 3D’s HOOPS AI, alongside the release of HOOPS AI 1.1.
Synera’s agentic orchestration platform can help engineers to build agents, enabling them to autonomously automate complex engineering workflows, but only if they can understand the CAD data at the center of those workflows. HOOPS AI provides that CAD-aware intelligence foundation, enabling applications to interpret geometry, identify similar parts, and support use cases such as design reuse, simulation setup, manufacturing planning, and procurement.
Synera’s Advanced AI add-in brings this capability directly into Synera workflows, enabling users to create searchable collections of CAD parts and identify geometrically similar designs based on the shape of the part itself. Instead of relying only on file names, tags, or file size, engineering teams can use CAD geometry to find related parts, reduce duplicate work, and connect previous engineering knowledge to new projects.
Synera Brings Shape Intelligence into Agentic Engineering Workflows
Synera’s Advanced AI module add-in gives engineering teams a new way to put CAD geometry to work inside agentic automation. Rather than treating shape search as a separate tool, the add-in makes geometric similarity available directly inside Synera workflows, where it can support larger processes across design, simulation, costing, manufacturing assessment, and PLM/PDM-connected systems.
With the Advanced AI add-in, users can bring CAD files into Synera, create searchable collections of parts, and run similarity searches to find geometrically related designs. Teams can use that capability to identify potential duplicates, reuse previous designs, compare related components, and reuse business context like costing, manufacturing processes, and procurement.
The result is a more practical path to AI-powered engineering: workflows and agents that can act not only on text, metadata, or user instructions, but on the actual shape of the part.
The release marks an important milestone for AI in engineering software. General-purpose AI tools have made rapid progress with text, images, and common business workflows, but engineering teams work with 3D models, CAD geometry, simulation data, product data, manufacturing context, and specialized tools. Built with the HOOPS AI toolkit, Synera’s Advanced AI helps address that gap by giving Synera workflows and agents a way to compare actual CAD geometry, not just the names or descriptions attached to it.
“With HOOPS AI, we can give engineering agents access to the geometric intelligence they need to understand CAD models, search for similar designs, and support more informed actions inside our customers’ engineering processes.” commented, Andrew Sartelli, VP of Software Partnerships at Synera.
HOOPS AI Provides the Shape Intelligence Foundation
Tech Soft 3D’s HOOPS AI provides the CAD-specific intelligence Synera needed to bring agentic AI deeper into engineering workflows. While general-purpose AI models can work with text and images, HOOPS AI gives software applications a way to understand and compare actual CAD geometry. With decades of experience processing more CAD data than any other CAD data access provider, Tech Soft 3D is uniquely placed to provide a toolkit that helps unlock CAD data for AI.
For Synera, HOOPS AI provided the specialized CAD intelligence behind the Advanced AI Module add-in, helping accelerate development without requiring Synera to build its own shape-understanding foundation from the ground up. By using HOOPS AI, Synera could focus their development resources on bringing that capability into its agentic workflow environment for engineering users.
The next generation of AI-powered CAD software needs to understand more than text and metadata,” said Eric Vinchon, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Tech Soft 3D. “
“It needs to understand the geometry and structure behind engineering data. HOOPS AI provides that CAD-aware foundation, and Synera’s Advanced AI Module shows how it can be applied in practical engineering workflows.”
The latest edition of this toolkit, HOOPS AI 1.1, is available now, expanding Tech Soft 3D’s framework for bringing machine learning to CAD data with new shape intelligence capabilities designed for part similarity, design reuse, and CAD-aware AI workflows.
To learn more about Synera’s Advanced AI capabilities, visit https://www.synera.ai/. To learn more about HOOPS AI 1.1, visit https://www.techsoft3d.com/developers/products/hoops-ai/
About Tech Soft 3D
Tech Soft 3D is the leading provider of engineering software development toolkits and industrial applications for CAD & CAE data conversion, visualization, and simulation. Established in 1996 and headquartered in Bend, Oregon, Tech Soft 3D has additional offices in the USA, France, England, Japan, Germany, and Norway. Tech Soft 3D is backed by investment firm Battery Ventures. For more information, please contact press@techsoft3d.com or visit www.techsoft3d.com.
