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Adam

Adam is an AI-powered CAD agent designed to simplify and accelerate workflows within existing CAD platforms. It replaces complex, repetitive actions with natural language prompts, allowing users to edit parts, create features, and modify designs more efficiently. Adam uses selection context to understand the user’s intent and apply high-level commands directly to the appropriate geometry. It helps optimize feature trees by identifying duplicate or inefficient features and merging them for cleaner, more robust designs. Parametrization tools allow users to convert ad-hoc models into structured designs with variables that update consistently across the model. Adam integrates directly into familiar CAD environments, reducing the learning curve for adoption. Overall, Adam modernizes CAD by making it faster, more intuitive, and AI-native.

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MecAgent

MecAgent is an AI-powered copilot designed to enhance productivity within mechanical CAD software. It automates repetitive and time-consuming CAD tasks, allowing engineers to focus on real mechanical design work. MecAgent operates directly inside existing CAD environments, transforming complex multi-click workflows into simple, one-click or prompt-based actions. The platform supports task automation for assemblies, drawings, sheet metal exports, sketch edits, appearance changes, and more. Engineers can build custom automations without coding, adapting MecAgent to their specific workflows and standards. Experimental AI features also enable CAD part generation, standard component searches, and mechanical engineering knowledge assistance. Overall, MecAgent modernizes mechanical CAD by reducing manual effort and significantly accelerating design workflows.

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bananaz

bananaz is an AI-powered design copilot built specifically for mechanical engineering that understands CAD data, company design rules, and engineering logic to automate key parts of the product development workflow and improve accuracy and efficiency. It uses AI and computer vision to validate GD&T, detect geometric changes, run tolerance and manufacturability analysis, enforce compliance with industry standards like ISO 1101:2017 and ASME Y14.5:2018, and apply custom organizational rules directly in 2D and 3D CAD environments. It streamlines design validation and change management by comparing drawing and model revisions, generating change logs and visual differences, tracking activity, and centralizing comments and annotations so teams can collaborate without scattered emails or files. bananaz integrates with existing CAD and PDM systems to provide real-time notifications, intelligent feedback, and automated reports such as inspection balloons and audit trails.

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ShopData

ShopData is a suite of specialized fabrication CAD/CAM solutions designed to help metal fabricators, HVAC shops, structural steel processors, and industrial manufacturers streamline design, nesting, cutting, and production workflows by maximizing material yield, improving precision, and reducing setup and programming time; the system includes advanced nesting and cutting algorithms that automate layout planning for sheet, plate, and custom parts to minimize waste and accelerate throughput on CNC cutting systems. It supports diverse solutions tailored to specific fabrication sectors, such as general fabrication, HVAC ductwork, and structural steel plate processing, so teams can apply optimized CAM strategies that reflect real shop needs, improve consistency, and drive productivity gains across varied jobs. Key capabilities include QuickCAM and QuickCAM-Pro modules, intelligent part nesting that adapts to material constraints and job requirements.

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CADopia

CADopia is a powerful Computer-Aided-Design software for engineers, architects, designers and drafters — virtually anyone who creates, edits, or views professional drawings. CADopia 19 is available in 12 languages – Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. CADopia Professional Services can help you maximize the returns on your investment in CAD technology. CADopia provides upfront consulting services, custom application development, staff training,technical support, and project outsourcing solutions. Productivity enhancing drafting tools such as custom construction plane, entity snaps, grids, entity and polar tracking allowsyou to complete your drawings precisely and efficiently.

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Phitomas

Technology is growing faster than ever, but business processes don’t always keep up, and companies that can’t keep up with the pace of change and adapt to disruptive innovation often find themselves floundering. To remain competitive in the market, businesses are increasingly embracing digital transformation and shifting their focus to a new business model: the intelligent enterprise. Intelligent enterprise refers to the approach of utilizing the latest technologies and new service paradigms to improve business performances in real-time. As a result, it accelerates innovation and automation, creates new business models, and provides remarkable experiences. Phitomas’ goal is to create an intelligent enterprise for our customers to help them evolve in this fast-changing economy so that they do not cease to exist. At Phitomas, we help you to create more connected operations, drive greater operational efficiency and reduce costs.

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Electric P8

EPLAN Software and Services

EPLAN Electric P8 is a consistent, integrated and fast engineering system for you to plan and design the electrical engineering for machines and plant systems. The software supports 2D computer aided engineering and a wide variety of engineering methods: from manual creation to standardized and template-based approaches. The project data, once entered into the schematic, becomes the foundation for the automated completion of machine and plant system documentation. In short, EPLAN Electric P8 electrical design software offers you much more than “just” drawing schematics and circuit diagrams. EPLAN Electric P8 automatically generates detailed evaluations for you as an integral component of the project documentation – either on an ongoing basis or combined after project completion, as required. Downstream process steps then get all the necessary information from engineering: from integrated planning to manufacturing, commissioning, maintenance and repair.

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CADISON

CADISON Piping and instrumentation design software - P&ID Designer is a comprehensive solution for creation of PFD/P&ID, Instrumentation (measurements, hook-up’s, I/O‘s), specifications and calculations (media, pipe specification, pump sizing, pipe sizing, etc.), and reports generation. It is a rule-based P&ID engineering solution that effectively supports an engineer to accurately design a plant as per engineering standards (DIN, EN ISO 10628, ANSI, etc.) and also provides flexibility to configure the system as per company standards. This P&ID software allows project planning processes and diagrams to merge seamlessly in such a way that all project-related data is dynamically available to the users. This in turn allows integration of all preliminary project planning done earlier with basic and detail engineering, and then merged with two-dimensional layout planning.

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iCADMac

iCADMac USA

A wide range of tools for 2D drawing and 3D modelling functionality, a familiar interface and compatibility with the most widespread design format in the world. iCADMac is a complete DWG-native CAD with a wide range of tools for 2D drawing and 3D modelling, offering a familiar interface and full compatibility with the most widespread design format in the world. Trims multiple, adjacent entities by dragging the pointer across each entity. Extends or trims two entities where they intersect at a virtual corner. PowerTrim works also on Hatches and Gradients. iCADMac is intuitive to users familiar with AutoCAD® and allows them to start working with their DWG drawings without any file conversion or training.

Starting Price: $794 one-time payment

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Stallion 3D

Hanley Innovations

Stallion 3D quickly generates aerodynamic performance data (lift, drag and moments) for new and existing CAD designs. Get superior RANS results without having to make a single grid. Grid generation in Stallion 3D is fully automatic. This eliminates the most time consuming and painful bottleneck in CFD. Stallion 3D quickly and accurately predicts the aerodynamic performance of your designs using its proprietary CFD algorithm (HIST). The software imports your CAD models and generates the 3D aerodynamic data needed to verify your designs and ensure your success. Reports of lift, drag, yaw, roll, pitch magnitudes and related forces and moments in the coordinates direction. Plots of 2D line graphs of Cp, velocity, mach number, density and temperature at constant coordinates locations long the STL surface (for example, you can plot Cp (x) at any span location along the wing).

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Dv TDM

Practical Programs

Total Document Management (Dv TDM) is a robust globally recognized solution for managing everything from day-to-day business documents to technical documents and drawings throughout their entire lifecycle. Dv TDM Dv TDM supports Microsoft Office documents (i.e., Word, Excel, Outlook) along with engineering documents/drawings such as AutoCAD, Microstation, PDF, and many more. Share documents and drawings on the web, control versions, view and markup documents without the need for the native file application and more. It is designed with an extensive set of configurable features that serve to address a wide spectrum of lifecycle business processes for almost any type of electronic file. Dv TDM provides document viewing capabilities for over 200 common file formats without the need for the native application to be installed on the accessing user's machine. Dv TDM is packed with Workflow, Knowledge Group, Transmittals modules and much more to make managing documents and drawing files easy.

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KeyCreator

Kubotek USA

KeyCreator is the legendary manufacturing-oriented workhorse 3D/2D CAD software that has seen it all and remains the go-to problem-solving tool for leading suppliers and designers. Discover the most compatible, efficient, and agile drafting solution available. Direct read of native drawings from the most comprehensive list of any drafting software; CATIA V5 & V4, PTC Creo, Siemens NX, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, DWG/DXF & CADKEY. Full control to revise drawing views, revision blocks, and add dimensions without the original CAD software. Automated drawing views and custom borders created as layouts in the main file. Comprehensive options to adjust view contents and look. Quickly add section, detail, and shaded isometric views. Easy-to-learn, professional-grade detailing. All style settings in dialogs. No complex set of variables and settings to remember. Import solids from any major CAD program and rotate, slice, and measure.

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CAESES

FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS AG

CAESES® foundation is a powerful and flexible parametric 3D modeler. The main purpose: Robust variable geometry with fewer parameters. Create a clean and robust parametric geometry that is ideal for automated meshing and analysis. Integrate, launch and control your simulation runs. Let it be your flexible GUI for process automation incl. 3D post-processing. CAESES® offers integrated methods for automated design explorations and shape optimization. Optimize imported geometries by using the shape deformation and morphing techniques of CAESES. CAESES® is a command-driven platform that can be fully scripted and customized. Includes batch mode capabilities. Accelerate your shape optimization process by mapping the results of an adjoint flow analysis to the geometry parameters. Get your flexible CAESES model in just a few days! Customized to your needs and easy to use. No CAESES expertise required.

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Visiativ

Visiativ creates and develops digital tools to empower individuals and teams in improving efficiency, enhancing productivity, and ultimately increasing business performance. We understand how projects evolve and that every business is unique in terms of legacy systems and infrastructure. We work with clients to define their digital transformation roadmap – from diagnosis, through development to implementation, training, communications, and follow-up. Visiativ helps companies to sustainably maximize their potential. With proven experience working with over 23,000 SMEs and mid-cap companies, worldwide, recognized expertise and a large, co-development community, Visiativ makes digital transformation an acceleration lever for the enterprise, thus improving the relationship, experience and satisfaction of both client and employee. More than 35 years’ experience working with businesses in all sectors and geographies, from SME’s to global players.

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CAMplete TruePath

CAMplete Solutions

Have you ever wondered why your tool paths look great in your CAM System but not on your milling machine? This is no longer something you have to consider, because with CAMplete TruePath the answer is clear. CAMplete TruePath bridges the gap between your CAM systems and your 5-axis machines. It provides everything needed to post process, verify and simulate 5-Axis tool paths in a 3D environment. CAMplete TruePath is an easy-to-use application that takes you from your CAM System to your machine efficiently and safely. Using toolpath data from all industry leading CAM Systems, TruePath’s customizable post-processor allows you to output your NC programs the way you need, with no on-machine editing required. 5-axis simulation, visualization and verification tools give you the confidence of knowing how your machine will behave before you run a single line of G-code. CAMplete works closely with CAM companies, their applications engineers and end users to ensure compatibility.

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card_1

IB&T Software GmbH

The professional CAD software card_1 provides unique features when working on projects, thus increasing your lead on the competition: you'll always be one step ahead. Whether you are surveying, planning routes or presenting projects, you can be sure you're putting your time to best use when working on your PC. The card_1 Version 9.0 offers unique solutions for your project work, enabling you to work even more efficiently and confidently than ever before. We're certainly on the right track and will continue to develop card_1 into an even more intelligent and professional system. Join us on our journey! With this innovative and comprehensive CAD solution, specifically tailored to the needs of civil engineering, you can reach your targets in no time at all. The components of card_1 have all been designed with one goal in mind: enabling you to work most efficiently on your surveying and planning projects.

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nTop Platform

nTopology

Engineering software built for digital manufacturing The way we build parts has changed. Your engineering software needs to change too. A unifying technique for design, simulation, and manufacturing data. The nTop Platform approach removes geometry bottlenecks in design by achieving more efficient workflows, dramatically improving team collaboration with faster iteration, enabling smarter, more complex designs to meet performance demands. By utilizing nTop Platform’s breakthrough computational modeling techniques, design teams can process and evaluate more design concepts than ever before. Find the most optimal solution in a shorter amount of time. At nTopology we know that your engineering know-how is the most valuable asset in your organization. nTop Platform makes that know-how accessible, shareable and, most importantly, secure across your entire organization.

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ModuleWorks

We increase your competitiveness and accelerate your time to market by quickly and reliably integrating a broad spectrum of the leading and industry-proven CAD/CAM technology into your software solution. As an independent company with a global reach that works in partnership with its customers, we continuously invest in developing innovative technology to enable you to master every challenge. ModuleWorks is a leading provider of software components and solutions for CAD/CAM systems and CNC machining. Offering 5-axis, 4-axis and 3-axis machining and simulation technology, our comprehensive product portfolio and cutting-edge software components are used in many of the leading CAM systems and digital manufacturing solutions worldwide. ModuleWorks Digital Manufacturing optimizes the performance and efficiency of milling and turning processes throughout the CAM and PLM enterprise industries with a powerful combination of toolpath generation components, 3D simulation software.

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Creo CADDS 5

PTC

When you need to design massive, complex products and coordinate the concurrent engineering efforts of a large team, you need a solution that is powerful and purpose-built for this multi-disciplinary challenge. An adaptable, hybrid modeling solution that lets users optimize their design approach for specific cases. You can leverage parametric, explicit, and derived modeling capabilities which are tailored to meet the needs of shipbuilders and other designers of very large, complex products. Creo CADDS 5 facilitates collaborative engineering. Its unique architecture enables hundreds of designers to work concurrently on a design project, enabling simultaneous design, documentation, assembly and machining. Helps Creo CADDS 5 customers using Creo CADDS 5 files, as well as other CAD data and non-CAD-related product development information, to improve their collaboration, management and control efforts.

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Demo3D

Rockwell Automation

Provide your prospect with realistic-looking videos of your proposal, a bill of materials, and a CAD layout to demonstrate your commitment. Demo3D is unique in providing the features and functionality you need to create impressive models fast, without spending the project budget before you even get it. Demo3D allows a wide range of equipment to be prototyped and tested with different controls and operating logic. Users verify synchronization, flow, sequencing, and functionality before committing to physical builds, saving time and money. Demo3D models reduce the physical prototyping necessary to develop new machines and are a powerful way to demonstrate operation to project stakeholders. Assemble impressive and accurate demonstration models, create CAD layouts, and generate a bill of materials from plug-and-play catalog elements in time for those initial project discussion meetings.

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CADObject

EXONIT

CADObject is a unique development of "ExonIT" LLC which allows to create of application systems and WEB services that provide interaction between CAD and GIS apps. Creation and managing of project documentation exacting the customer's requirements. Decreasing the operational costs thanks to real-time updating of documentation. Maintenance of the history of the object lifecycle with instant access to the needed information in real-time. Integration with existing enterprises' systems. The main difference between CADObject and other similar products is, that in process of data exchange between CAD and GIS, CADObject creates an object data model whilst converting. During this process, all the standard graphic symbols are recognized, united into separate objects according to a certain classifier, and transferred to a spatial database. Each object has a specific entry in the database, which allows the development of analytical spatial solutions.

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CAD+T

Powerful 3d interior design software based on AutoCAD® and Inventor® specialized in the furniture industry form the basis for an initial, fast and professional planning for your new project. In addition to the high usability, the software is characterized by its large range of functions. These include the quick, time-saving visualization of interior furnishings including walls, windows and doors, wall openings, the cabinet configurator, and much more. Whether interior designer, carpenter, joiner, shopfitter, or exhibition stand designer, the range of functions enables the designer, the draftsman as well as the client a fast and realistic presentation of the project. The CAD+T planning module based on Autodesk AutoCAD® is particularly suitable for doing the first design of interior fittings including walls, windows, and doors as well as wall openings as fast as possible. Schedule with materials from the leading hardware suppliers.

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LightningCAD

RoleModel Software

Dynamic, user-guided design, delivered over a browser, with instant access to estimations, parts lists, shopping carts, 3D-printer-ready files, etc. Output tailored to your needs. Your business rules are built into the software. We extract your expertise and put it into code that empowers your team to focus on the complex parts of their job while your system does the rest. No learning curve. Visual design as simple as drag and drop places control into the hands of your sales team, your customer, or any user you choose. Use your engineers at the right time, not when you’re forced to. Cloud-based design to enable your team. LightningCAD systems are easily accessible with no installation necessary, supporting collaboration in your organization and beyond. Design, share, and produce without the holdups. From construction blueprints to ready-to-print 3D surgical toolkits, your custom system delivers what you need. Quickly, intuitively, and automatically updated as you design.

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SPULLOWS

SPUDWEB Technologies

All calculations right from number of convolutions, width, fatigue life cycle, stress, weight, movement calculations, tie-rod, sleeve, shroud, end pipe length and vibration calculations are done automatically. After the calculations, SPULLOWS also generates manufacturing drawing in ACAD or any other 2D drafting software of the bellows with assembly and child part drawing along with BOM (Bill of Materials), Standards / Schedules used, a 3D model, and costing sheet. All these outputs are generated automatically by a click of a button. The material options in the software consist of all the standard materials used in the manufacture of bellows, like SS, MS, Inconel to just name a few of them. However, the user has an option to add a new material into the database by going to the Admin screen and adding new material.

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CADMeister

With tools to make every part of your process more human and a support team excited to help you, getting started with inbound has never been easier. All come together in one place. Mastercam has seen the manufacturing industry evolve over the past 35 years and has advanced their technology along with those changes. Mastercam delivers CAD/CAM software tools for all types of programming, from the most basic to the extremely complex including 2-axis machining, multiaxis milling and turning, wire EDM, router applications, free-form artistic modeling and cutting, and 3D design. We believe that Mastercam should be your first and only choice when selecting a CAM package to meet your business’ requirements.

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CREACOMPO 2

Toray Advanced Computer Solution

CREACOMPOⅡ Cloud Service for Enterprise' securely stores your data in our cloud database. You can create, save and share digital patterns with your business partners. This is a new easy-to-use solution to improve your work efficiency on design checks and corrections. The powerful solution of virtual muslin-making and fitting functions is here for you. Design is more creative, with less effort with numerous functions designed especially for pattern makers. Drawing freely, tutorial messages, user-friendly interface helps you a lot. For various apparel works, from fabric consumption estimation to factory cutting. With just a few clicks, get optimized material yield for even over hundreds of parts.

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3DXpert

Oqton

Prepare, optimize, and 3D print high-quality parts in record time with 3DXpert, an all-in-one, integrated 3D additive manufacturing software that streamlines the complete workflow, from design to printing. 3DXpert is your one-stop-shop for additive manufacturing. Streamline your workflow, maximize efficiency, and avoid costly errors, by completing all AM processes in the same software environment, including DfAM, build preparation, simulation, and inspection. Achieve up to 75% faster file processing time with CAD to Slice workflows. No more compromising data integrity of mechanically designed parts to STLs. 3DXpert is built on a CAD engine - making history-based, parametric build preparation the new standard in AM. Hybrid DfAM combines the power of solid, mesh, and implicit (voxel-based) modeling.

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GoCAD Collaboration

GoSaaS, Inc.

GoCAD Collaboration encompasses our overall CAD integration offerings for customers with diverse needs. Our solutions are purpose built, configurable and designed to help customers optimize their CAD Data Management processes. It provides out of the box customizable and flexible bi-directional integrations between CAD and PLM to increase the velocity of innovation and reduce the product's time to market.

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CADBase

When organising collaborative engineering work, a platform that supports CAD file versioning, differentiated data access, verified supplier catalogues with 3D models and supporting documentation is a useful solution. One valuable feature is the capability to access and refresh parts on the platform through computer-aided design systems utilized by engineers and designers. The engineering platform's API, accessible to all users, enables them to create bespoke solutions for automating business processes and presenting data.

Starting Price: Free

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KCL

Revalize

Create detailed drawings fast with our innovative kitchen design software. Using KCL, you have access to an ever-expanding library of kitchen CAD blocks, Autodesk® Revit® family types, and spec sheets from 268 manufacturers, plus exclusive time-saving features — all in one place. Access KCL's extensive library of kitchen design files from top foodservice manufacturers on any device or browser. Design anywhere, on any computer or full-size tablet using KCL NapkinSketch. No additional design tool required.When you have a question or need a tutorial, our support team is only a call or click away. For a quick reply, use our live chat. To serve a global audience, KCL's user interface and categories are available in English, Spanish, French, and Italian.

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