"At Mintec, we have been using HOOPS on a wide variety of platforms, for over 10 years. It has been invaluable to us in the creation of MineSight, a leading geologic modeling and mine planning system. Some of the unique problems we deal with are extremely large models (triangulations with over 1 million vertices) as well as the need to 'attribute' geometric primitives. The OpenHSF initiative is an extremely positive step as it opens the door to improved collaboration between engineering users and applications at widely disparate locations that do not always have the best communications infrastructure. In addition, having recently embarked on a major enhancement to our system to handle 'attributed geometry', the ability of HSF to add 'intelligence' to exchanged 3D models will be of enormous benefit."

John C. Davies,
Vice President
Mintec Inc.