Spatial Corp
American software company, 1986-2000
Spatial Corporation (formerly Spatial Technology Inc.) was founded in 1986, and had one main product: ACIS, the first commercially available 3D modeling kernel. Through subsequent years, Spatial added products to its portfolio that enabled independent software vendors (ISVs), mostly in the industries of computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), known as CAD/CAM, to build applications. These components included extensions and updates to the ACIS modeler, visualization products, and acquisitions in translator technology.
In late 2000, Dassault Systèmes purchased Spatial and made it a subsidiary.
01Flagship products
The firm's flagship products include these programs:
- 3D ACIS Modeler, features an open, object-oriented C++ architecture that enables robust, 3D modeling abilities. It is a geometric modeling kernel that was developed by Spatial, and is used in industries such as 3Danimation, shipbuilding, and computer-aided design.
- CGM Modeler, the 3D modeling kernel used in Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
- 3D InterOp, CAD data translation framework.
- 3D Visualization, the HOOPS 3D Application Framework enables the development of 3D Visualization applications with advanced 2D and 3D graphics functionality.
- 3D Precise Mesh, an object-based software development toolkit providing fully configurable surface and volumetric meshing abilities.
- Constraint Design Solver (CDS), provides variational constraint solver solutions for design and engineering applications.
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