Quarterly Highlights: What’s New at Spatial
- Introduction
- Spatial Insider Express Roadshows
- Release 2026 1.0.1
- InnovMetric Success Stories
- Customers Interviews
- Latest News From Our Blog
It's already mid-year and what a quarter it has been. ⚡
From Tokyo to Milan to Shanghai, we brought the Spatial community together across three continents. New customer stories went live, our engineers kept shipping technical content, and our customers continued to bring powerful applications to life with our SDKs.
Here is everything that happened at Spatial in Q2 2026 👇
🌍 Spatial Insider Express Roadshows
Following Stuttgart, the Insider Express series made its way to Milan, Tokyo, and Shanghai, bringing customers and partners together for a full day of strategic insights, technical deep dives, and direct access to our experts.
From product roadmap updates on 3D InterOp, 3D ACIS Modeler and CGM Modeler, to live AGM demos and the latest meshing innovations, each stop offered hands-on sessions and great conversations with our community.
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us!
Missed a stop? Contact your account manager to get the key takeaways
⚙️ Release 2026 1.0.1
Spatial announced new enhancements across 3D InterOp, Data Prep, CGM Modeler, 3D ACIS Modeler and CSM/CVM, delivering expanded format support, enhanced PMI handling, and new geometry processing capabilities to further improve interoperability and simulation workflows.
Key highlights:
✅ 3D InterOp: NX 2D drawings, Draco compression, expanded PMI support
✅ Data Prep: Hidden Body Removal extended to more CAD and mesh formats
✅ 3D ACIS Modeler: Rho-Conic blending and edge self-intersection resolution
✅ CSM/CVM: Mesh healing improvements and new mesh quality evaluator
🤝 InnovMetric Success Stories
🔬 InnovMetric: 26,000 Customers, One Reliable CAD Pipeline
For over 20 years, InnovMetric has relied on Spatial's 3D InterOp SDK to power native CAD translation at the heart of its PolyWorks|Inspector™ platform. Their recent migration to the modern UConnect SDK delivered 100% reusability of their existing 3D ACIS Modeler investment, several months of development time saved, and a ~10% average performance gain, supporting 26,000 customers across 100 countries.
🎥 Customer Interviews
🛠️ Schott Systeme
Gunther Wamser, Managing Director of Schott Systeme, looks back on a 30-year partnership with Spatial and how offloading core 3D modeling to 3D ACIS Modeler freed up resources to focus on customer needs. 👉 Watch the Interview
🤖 Stäubli Robotics
Andrea Tagliabue, Global Application Leader at Stäubli's Robotics Division, shares how Spatial's R&D team helped ship a new collision detection feature for the Stäubli Robotics Suite in just two months. 👉 Watch the Interview
⚙️ GibbsCAM
Thorsten Strauss, President of GibbsCAM, explains how Spatial's 3D InterOp became a cornerstone of their CAM platform, replacing a patchwork of self-developed tools and accelerating development. 👉 Watch the Interview
📝 Latest News From Our Blog
This quarter, our engineering experts published new technical content across CAD interoperability, application development, and 3D modeling. 👇
- 🔧 Why Consistent CAD Translation Requires More Than Just Reading Files: What consistent CAD data exchange really requires without years of maintenance burden.
- ⚡ How to Accelerate Development of a New 3D Engineering Application: Which layers of your tech stack to build versus license, with real examples.
- 🛠️ How to Add Feature Recognition and Direct Editing to Your 3D Application: Why these capabilities are harder than they look, and how SDKs can help.
- 🌊 How to Future-Proof Your Modeling Engine for Freeform Surfaces: Six architectural areas that matter most for handling freeform surfaces.
- ⚙️ FEM Preprocessing Is the Bottleneck: Why 38% of FEM analysis time goes to preprocessing and how to fix it.
- 🖨️ Stop Losing CAD Accuracy in Your 3D Printing Software Pipeline: Where accuracy gets lost between CAD and print, and how to fix it.
📅 Meet Us at These Upcoming Events!
We’re hitting the road! Join us at these 2026 upcoming industry events to discover how Spatial’s solutions can drive your projects forward:
- 📍 CDFAM / CD/DC, Washington DC, USA - July 15–16
- 📍 TECHNO-FRONTIER, Tokyo, Japan - July 15–17
- 📍 All About Automation, Zürich, Switzerland - Aug 26–27
- 📍 Nepcon R&D and Manufacturing, Tokyo, Japan - Sept 9–11
- 📍 Factory Innovation Week, Tokyo, Japan - Sept 9–11
- 📍 IMTS, Chicago, USA - Sept 14–19
- 📍 AMB, Stuttgart, Germany - Sept 15–19
Thank you for being part of our community! We’ll be back next quarter with more updates. In the meantime, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or need further assistance.
About Spatial Corp
Spatial Corp, a Dassault Systèmes subsidiary, is the leading provider of 3D software development toolkits for technical applications across a broad range of industries. Spatial 3D modeling, 3D visualization, and CAD translation software development toolkits help application developers deliver market-leading products, maintain focus on core competencies, and reduce time-to-market. For over 35 years, Spatial’s 3D software development toolkits have been adopted by many of the world’s most recognized software developers, manufacturers, research institutes, and universities. Headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, Spatial has offices in the USA, France, Germany, Japan, China, and the United Kingdom. For more information on Spatial’s latest updates and product offerings, please visit www.spatial.com