Integrating HOOPS AI into Multi-Agent Engineering Workflows

How Synera gives engineering agents geometric intelligence

Ask a large language model to summarize an email thread and it manages fine. Ask it to find a similar CAD part or flag a duplicate in your PLM system, and it has nothing to work with: LLMs understand text, not 3D geometry. This session shows how Synera closes that gap using HOOPS AI, the geometry intelligence technology from longtime Synera technology partner Tech Soft 3D. Andrew Sartorelli walks through how one can turn enable agents built on Synera’s orchestration platform to easily turn CAD geometry into a searchable vector, think fingerprint to easily compare CAD geometries to one another. In a demo he runs through how this could like for a CAD designer or engineer, starting with initializing a vector database, uploading STEP files through a chat interface, vectorizing them and entering them in the database, and then asking an agent to find the part most similar to another. Opening up the Synera editor, where you can build workflows for agents, he shows how quickly you can build up a similar workflow in a matter of hours thanks to the Advanced AI add-in powered by HOOPS AI and Synera’s existing agentic construction and orchestration capabilities.

Key takeaways

• Why large language models have no geometric intelligence on their own, and how vectorizing CAD geometry through HOOPS AI gives agents something to search
• How to run a similar-part search from agentic chat interface: upload step files, vectorize them into a database, and get back the closest match with screenshots
• How to build a geometry-search agentic workflow in Synera's low-code editor, assembled in minutes from existing tools and nodes
• Where customers are already applying this: catching duplicate parts in PLM and PDM systems, reapplying meshing settings from similar geometry, and reusing costing and manufacturability data instead of starting over
• How Synera's technology partnership with Tech Soft 3D enabled the Advanced AI add-in powered HOOPS AI to build on the 80+ other integrations already on the marketplace

Who is this recording for?

• Automotive and aerospace engineering teams managing large PLM or PDM libraries, where duplicate parts and inconsistent geometry data slow down design and costing
• CAD, CAE, and simulation engineers who want to reuse designs, meshing settings, or costing models from similar parts instead of starting from scratch