LINZ, February 5, 2025 – Candera GmbH is proud to announce the release of CGI Studio 3.15, the latest version of our industry-leading Human-Machine Interface (HMI) development software. This update delivers a wide range of innovations aimed at simplifying development workflows, improving graphics performance, and enabling AI-powered user interfaces for developers across industries.

“CGI Studio 3.15 reflects our ongoing commitment to providing developers with the tools they need to create intuitive and visually stunning user experiences,” says Roland Winkler, Senior Product Development Manager at Candera.  “With powerful new features like integrated SoundHound AI speech recognition and enhanced importing capabilities, we are empowering teams to work faster, smarter, and more creatively than ever before.

Quick overview of the improvements in Candera CGI Studio 3.15:

• Integration of SoundHound AI Speech Recognition
• Candera CGI Studio 3.15 Professional Edition

Candera CGI Studio 3.15 now integrates SoundHound AI, enabling users to control HMIs through natural voice commands. Supporting more than 25 languages, this technology uses state-of-the-art speech-to-meaning® capabilities to interpret complex instructions in real time.

Developers can define custom speech events and actions,
using the intuitive Houndify web interface to configure speech domains and input scopes.

The Candera CGI Studio Player receives SoundHound speech events via the integrated SoundHound component. In Scene Composer specific speech events can be filtered and forwarded to state machines or behaviors for action handling.

A built-in sample project (a blood pressure monitoring device) showcases how speech events can be linked to conditions and actions through the Scene Composer.

Another highlight of this release is the fully integrated wireframe support, which provides developers with an intuitive way to switch between solid and wireframe rendering for rigid, skinned, and morphed meshes. This feature improves the visualization and manipulation of complex 3D assets directly within the Scene Composer with just a click. Developers can also export wireframe-rendered meshes as assets, streamlig both prototyping and final design workflows.

Performance improvements continue with CGI Studio’s font-handling capabilities, now optimized through integration of latest Monotype’s iType technology. By utilizing a prepopulated glyph cache, the application eliminates the need for real-time font rendering during startup, significantly reducing initialization time for performance-critical interfaces like automotive dashboards and industrial control systems.

To enhance the visual experience further, the update includes a Masked Blur Effect, allowing developers to blur pop-up backgrounds and improve focus on key interface elements.

The AI assisted Smart Importer enhances UI design by enabling automatic mapping of assets from Adobe Photoshop and Figma. Developers can easily apply map layered images to custom controls, with auto-mapped layouts reducing manual setup time. For example, images like a multi-layered petrol gauge can be directly imported and mapped to interactive controls in seconds.

Set initial property values, like the fill rate of the petrol gauge in Basic Properties tab.

Map imported content directly to your custom UI-Control MyProgressBar with the Apply-Button.

Once applied, the Scene Composer creates the custom MyProgressBar UI-Control with the images from Photoshop and initial values from your configuration.

This Smart Importer also includes now font replacement options, ensuring seamless font management across projects.

The new auto-mapping of Figma layouts to CGI Studio’s Stack Layout or Text Layout reduces manual configuration efforts.

Navigation within complex nested scenes is made easier with color-coded scene tree indicators, which provides instant feedback on scene structure without the need to expand individual nodes.
The Tooltip explains all color-coded attributes while hovering over the matrix.

CGI Studio 3.15 enhances overall usability within the Scene Composer through a range of optimizations. The new image retention feature preserves original file formats within solution folders, ensuring both fidelity and traceability of imported assets.

Additionally, the text size report tool has been updated to boost performance by analyzing and optimizing font sizes across the application.

The orbit camera has been extended to further improve the user experience, offering smoother control for navigating and editing 3D environments.

These improvements streamline workflows, reduce the number of clicks, and significantly enhance productivity for developers working on complex designs

Data integration has also been upgraded with the introduction of CGI Connector, which replaces the previous Matlab Connector. Notably, the connector features a generic interface for inte-grating also external state machines with minimal effort.
This tool provides a versatile interface for defining input/output relationships, supporting complex data types and dynamic events.

Developers can group logical interfaces into modules and automatically generate named ports.

The CGI Connector simplifies project integration with a more flexible build system, making data-driven applications faster and easier to build and maintain.

Additionally, data simulation features allow users to load and manipulate data models (XHCDL) directly in the Player, providing real-time feedback during testing.

Candera CGI Studio 3.15 caters to both small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs)
and enterprise clients.

The new CGI Studio Professional Edition is tailored for SMBs and rapid development, offering pre-built players for Linux-based targets such as STM32MP1 and Python-script access to the data model. Dedicated documentation and samples guarantee an easy entry to HMI development on host and target.

The CGI Studio Enterprise Edition is designed for the automotive market. It provides full access to source code and C++ interface. With this highly flexible edition you get support for premium extensions like Memory Manager, Analyzer, CGI Connector, Asset Shaper, and Scene Composer plug-ins.

A Game-Changer for Developers Across Industries

Candera CGI Studio 3.15 is already being hailed as a transformative update for developers building HMIs in automotive, appliances, and medical sectors. By integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities, simplifying the design-to-deployment process, and enhancing performance, Candera empowers its
clients to deliver smarter, more interactive user experiences with less complexity.

Want to test the improvements yourself?

Request a free trial version of Candera CGI Studio.

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, 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

Want to test the improvements yourself?

Request a free trial version of Candera CGI Studio.

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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