Threaded Miami: Jonathan Girroir of Tech Soft 3D

Jonathan Girroir explains why Tech Soft 3D’s SpinFire product line matters far beyond “just viewing CAD.”

This conversation gets into one of the messiest problems in engineering: how to move complex product data across the enterprise without forcing everyone onto a full CAD seat or trapping information inside a single system. Jonathan breaks down how SpinFire tackles that problem through three core areas: native CAD translation, rich 3D PDF publishing, and lightweight enterprise visualization, with XR also entering the mix for design review and factory use cases. 

A big part of the discussion is practical interoperability. Jonathan walks through how SpinFire Convert can move engineering data from one ecosystem to another, including common workflows like 3DEXPERIENCE to JT, while preserving assembly structure, geometry, attributes, PMI, and other rich engineering data. He also shows how that same data can be turned into far more useful technical packages instead of static documents. 

Another key theme is access. SpinFire Insights is positioned as a lightweight, enterprise-friendly way to get 3D data into the hands of more people across the business, from engineering to procurement, tooling, and manufacturing. The point is simple: product data is too valuable to stay locked inside CAD and PLM silos. 

Jonathan also touches on the broader Tech Soft 3D strategy, including how acquisitions like Actify and Theorem helped shape the SpinFire portfolio, and how the line between toolkits and end-user applications is starting to blur as more engineering workflows move into the cloud. 

If you care about CAD interoperability, engineering data reuse, 3D PDF workflows, XR for industry, or getting product data to more people without more software overhead, this episode is worth your time.

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