LINZ, August 12, 2024 – Unleash your creativity with the latest release of Candera CGI Studio, now featuring the highly anticipated 3D Skinned Meshes and 3D ADAS solution template for a transformative design experience. Benefit from our clear commitment to continuous software maintenance, ensuring your projects meet the highest reliability standards.

“Candera CGI Studio 3.14 is the next step towards highly efficient and more realistic HMI design,” says Roland Winkler, Candera’s Senior Product Development Manager. “We are grateful for the positive feedback we have received from our customers since our last release and are excited to see the new signature UIs they will create with Candera CGI Studio 3.14.” 

Quick overview of the improvements in Candera CGI Studio 3.14:

Graphic Improvements

These new graphic features in Candera CGI Studio are designed to enhance flexibility and efficiency in developing HMI designs while improving application usability and visual quality.

The 3D Skinned Meshes feature allows you to execute advanced, flexible body transformations. This functionality lets you easily import skinned 3D meshes using FBX and glTF files.

Additionally, an extended 3D effects solution template featuring bone animations is included in the Scene Composer. This feature is particularly useful for integrating realistic movements and animations into your HMI designs.

The 3D ADAS Control feature offers a ready-to-use solution template for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), including 3D animations. This functionality lets you easily customize various ADAS controls to match your design. With this solution template, developers can create interactive and user-friendly ADAS interfaces that enhance driver safety and comfort.

Fully customizable ADAS solution template

The support for custom shaders in 2D scenes allows you to enrich 2D scenes running on OpenGL devices with your own 3D effects. This opens up new possibilities for visual effects and design flexibility. An OpenGL2D Effects solution template is also available for reference. This feature enables you to integrate unique and engaging graphical representations tailored to specific requirements into your 2D applications.

Custom 2D Shader Sample

Custom 2D Shader Properties

UX Improvements

These additional UX features in Candera CGI Studio are designed to improve the user experience by offering sharper visuals, enhanced performance, and more intuitive tools for managing data and documentation.

The Hi-Res Scene Composer in Candera CGI Studio ensures that the user interface remains sharp and clear, regardless of screen resolution. It provides a smooth experience across low- and high-resolution displays, maintaining visual consistency. Additionally, icons stay clear and well-defined at any DPI setting, enhancing the overall visual appeal.

Sharp and clear interface in Scene Composer on any screen resolution 

Fit to Screen mode

Text Size Report executes tests on the target platform

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The Courier Data Source Editor provides a graphical user interface for easily composing your data model. This feature simplifies the creation and management of data sources, making developing and maintaining your HMI projects more efficient. The visual approach of this editor makes it intuitive and user-friendly to create and edit data models.

Compose your data model graphically, no need for writing an .xml-file

Deployment improvements

These improvements in Candera CGI Studio aim to enhance the development process by providing modern, user-friendly tools for configuration and updates, ensuring a smooth and efficient workflow.

The simplified patch application feature allows for self-extracting patches that include verification of the code base integrity. This ensures that updates are applied securely and correctly. Additionally, users can view the patch history directly in the Scene Composer, providing transparency and ease of tracking changes over time.

Patch history visible in “About” window

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About Candera:

Candera is a pioneer in the field of HMI design software, offering innovative solutions for the automotive industry, wearables, medical, and household appliances. With a focus on user-centric design and cutting-edge technology, Candera continues to set the standard for HMI software development. For more information, please visit www.candera.eu

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Linz, Austria, 26. April 2024. Candera presented CGI Studio 3.13 on a vast variety of GUIs: From HMIs for smart homes, cars, bikes, medical devices, and industrial automation applications –showing how Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) can easily and quickly be created for a wide range of applications.

Candera presented GUIs reaching from a Smart Home washing machine with ‘Guided Maintenance’ features in spectacular 3D design to medical demos highlighting CGI Studios capacities in safety-relevant fields. Making these applications possible are the latest versions of Candera’s high performing HMI tool, CGI Studio 3.12 and CGI Studio 3.13 with the award-winning Smart Importer.

 Fig. 1: Candera’s booth in hall 4 of Embedded World

Smart Homes: Candera HMIs on low-end and high-end devices

Candera presented its latest “Smart Home” Washing Machine with high-end 3D effects. Highlights include the “Guided Maintenance” feature, supporting the user visually by showing the cause of the problem, for example to replace an old filter or connecting to the service hotline, if professional help is necessary.

While the wide screen Washing Machine demo was running on ST Microelectronic’s STM32MP1 on the Candera booth, its sister demo was presented the ST Graphics Wall showing what can be done on smaller devices, such as the STM32U5 series with NeoChrom.

Fig. 2: ST Micro and Candera’s sister Smart Washing Machine demos on STM32 devices

Industrial Applications: Stay in control
Industrial HMIs, be it for machine operations, maintenance panels, logistics management or warehousing, can help avoid costly mistakes, speed up the on-boarding process of new operators and reduce maintenance costs.

At Embedded World, Candera showed how advanced Human Machine Interfaces for Industrial Applications combine usability with brilliant GUIs to ensure users stay in control.

Fig. 3: Candera’s Industrial Automation demo with advanced 3D features

A second Industrial HMI by Candera was presented on ST Microelectronics GUI Partner Wall:

Candera @ partners’ booths

Candera’s partners also appreciate CGI Studio’s reliability and variability. Among them ST Microelectronics, Raspberry Pi, Hy-Line, and Conze, all of whom presented demos either by or in cooperation with Candera at their booths during Embedded World.

ST Microelectronics, for example, used the latest STM32MP2 MCU to present Candera’s “Robotic Teaching” demo. By touching and adjusting the joints of the 3D robot on the GUI, users and re-adjust complex movement patterns of the real robot, save the pattern and check it in re-play.

Fig.4 Candera’s Washing Machine and Robotic demos at ST Microelectronic’s “Graphics Partner Wall”

Conze presented 3 demos made with CGI Studio, on of them the “Blood pressure” with a beating 3D heart at its core. Raspberry Pi included Candera’s HMI for an electronic motorbike with high-end 3D features in its navigation system on their booth.

Fig.5: Candera’s demos at e.g. Raspberry Pi (Electronic Motorbike) and Conze (Blood Pressure) booths during Embedded World 2024

Candera’s award-winning Smart Importer: HMI creation made easy
Based on innovative AI-detection technologies, Candera’s Smart Importer speeds up the whole HMI creation process. While other HMI design tools require the user to import each single element and add functionality to them one after another, Candera’s Smart Importer will do a direct import of a design file and enrich it with functionality automatically.

Fig.6: Candera’s Smart Importer makes HMI creation easy

Users can import graphics files from Adobe Photoshop®, Sketch, Axure RP, Figma or Adobe XD into CGI Studio. Relevant components like gauges, sliders, buttons, and many more are automatically detected, and the most probable functionality can be added to each element.

For more of CGI Studio’s highlight features such as text size verification, dynamic lists with snap function, additional 3D Primitives, rotate and zoom functions in the CGI Studio Player, or support for vector graphics, click here.

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Candera Studio: Introducing Fusion Editor’s “Super Sets”

Super Sets are templates for logic blocks, which significantly speed up and simplify the HMI creation process: Users are now able to re-use blocks of logic, that they created for specific needs of their HMI. But that is not all: Candera Studio’s Feature Pack 2 comes with improvements of the state machine, “smart render” state caching to accelerate render performance, and advances in both the data source editor and font engine.

Candera Studio is the new HMI creation software for industrial, medical, and white goods industries, as well as other advanced embedded or individual HMIs. Easily accessible, intuitive to use – even for users without any coding experience – Candera Studio accepts any input (graphical files) and is set up to output to any embedded hardware on which user interfaces are displayed. Candera is opening to new users and new markets – highlighting Candera’s mission statement: “Candera is where Humans and Machines Interact: In displays of embedded devices.”

Now there is the first update. What is new about Candera Studio? Here is a sneak preview:

Fusion Editor’s “Super Sets”

Candera Studio’s Fusion Editor now includes a new feature called Super Sets. Users can easily merge complex logic into easy-to-use templates, share and re-use Super Sets within and across projects, and tailor the interface of Super Sets for high usability.

Fig. 1: Fusion Editor Super Sets: The template nodes are marked with the golden Super Set icon.

In short: combine custom Fusion diagrams in re-usable templates for simplified use. Once you have created one set of logic, it becomes much more efficient to re-use it for similar applications. For more, watch the Fusion Super Sets film.

Fig. 2: Fusion Editor Super Sets: Re-use logical blocks you have created before.

A free trial version is now available.

State Machine Improvements

Candera Studio’s improved State Machine lets users design their screen transition specifications with flexible use of images, such as screenshots or snapshots, as well as annotations and individual coloring solutions.

Another step towards making the tool even more intuitive to work with: better integration of key-shortcuts or support for zoom levels.

Fig. 3: State Machine: more intuitive to use

Increased Rendering Performance

For Candera Studio’s Feature Pack 2, render performance has been optimized by smart render state caching to accelerate render performance. Users benefit from optimized render stability in conjunction with rendering of vector graphics

Fig. 4: Smart render state caching for accelerated render performance

Advanced Data Source Editor

Candera Studio’s Data Source Editor now supports a broad set of complex data types: Vector 2, Vector 3, Vector 4, Colour, Asynchronous List, and Rectangle. Additionally, support for global data items has been added to easily share data between multiple scenes

Monotype Font Engine

The professional Monotype font engine is fully integrated in Candera Studio and used to render fonts. Supporting shaping, the optimized 2D Basic Sample showcases high-quality Monotype fonts for a wide variety of use cases. Beyond improving visual appearance, the right choice of fonts can ensure safety requirements for HMIs in critical applications or ensure a globally uniform brand appearance across many languages.

Further improvements include a powerful dynamic list control (for more, watch the video), JavaScript samples, improved Adobe XD import for the Smart Importer, UI/UX optimizations for the Fusion Editor.

For those new to Candera Studio, a quick reminder:

Candera’s latest innovation is the HMI software toolchain Candera Studio – for industrial applications. It is an intuitive, noncoding HMI software tool – clearly “designed for designers”. For easy access, especially faster on-boarding, with multi-language documentation, and detailed tutorials.

Designed to be open: to be integrated “from any input” i.e., various graphics tools – “to any output” i.e., operating systems and hardware.
Presenting for the first time the Fusion Editor for intuitive visual composition of logic and behaviors: No coding skills necessary.

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Candera Studio includes ready-to-use controls, automated workflows, integrated state machine and an AI-powered Smart Importer. It uses artificial intelligence to recognize relevant components such as buttons, sliders, gauges, etc., and suggests the appropriate function for each element. Simply select the appropriate component and define its property. Check the result immediately in a simulation of the Candera Studio Player. In a few minutes, you have created a fully functional HMI.

New: Watch the Candera Studio Best of video: https://youtu.be/l5kULSnEH-E

Not quite convinced yet?

Request a trial version of Candera Studio: https://canderastudio.com/en/trial/

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About Candera

Candera is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. Candera supports its customers with the CGI Studio and Candera Studio tool environments, as well as provision of software services mainly in the areas of HMI development and embedded software. Candera GmbH in Linz, Austria and Candera Japan, are both part of KAGA FEI Co., Ltd. situated in Yokohama, Japan.