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Cognitive Design
Cognitive Design Systems
Cognitive Design by CDS is a next-generation concurrent engineering platform for OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers in Aerospace, Defense, and Automotive. Powered by a proprietary implicit-geometry engine, it combines generative design (topology optimization, generative enclosure), manufacturing-driven constraints, simulation-driven analysis, and AI-powered design exploration in one unified platform. Engineers can generate and compare high-performance concepts faster, DfM constraints early (Casting, Machining, Metal AM), and automate repeatable workflows across entire product families — reducing time-to-design and eliminating late rework. Serving industry leaders across Japan, Europe, and the US.Starting Price: 12000€ -
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D5 Lite
D5
D5 Lite is a free, AI-native, real-time visualization plugin developed by D5, specifically designed to integrate directly into 3D modeling software, primarily SketchUp (versions 2021–2026). It serves as an early-stage design tool that bridges the gap between raw, "white-box" massing models and high-quality, rendered visual concepts without requiring users to leave their modeling workspace. It is part of the "D5 All-in-One Workflow," which includes D5 Render and D5 Works.Starting Price: $38/month -
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NeuralWing
Emmi AI
NeuralWing is a real-time neural simulation and design optimization model for transonic aircraft aerodynamics. It is built around the largest 3D transonic wing dataset, created from 30,000 steady-state CFD simulations of a 3D wing in the transonic regime, with variations across four geometry parameters and two inflow conditions. Using Emmi’s AB-UPT surrogate model trained on this data, NeuralWing enables users to modify wing geometry, test optimizations, and maximize aerodynamic efficiency in seconds. The model supports transonic 3D wing simulation, geometry and inflow variations, real-time inference, and design-parameter optimization. Its inputs include a geometry mesh in STL format, speed, and angle of attack, while its outputs include pressure, friction, velocity fields, and integral forces such as lift and drag. Geometry meshes are created in real time from four design parameters in a differentiable manner, allowing fast exploration of design changes.Starting Price: Free -
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NeuralMould
Emmi AI
NeuralMould is Emmi AI’s Large Engineering Model for injection molding, described as a new gold standard in AI for engineering: any geometry, any material, any injection gates, one model. It lets users select from a range of geometries and test injection, material, and gate placement parameters to simulate filling behavior in seconds, rapidly compare multiple scenarios, optimize process KPIs, and avoid frozen flow fronts. Injection molding simulation is highly complex because it involves multi-physics calculations that model transient flow of viscous plastic through thin-walled geometries under extreme temperature and pressure conditions. NeuralMould captures these phenomena across a wide range of injecting conditions and mold geometries, achieving performance comparable to traditional solvers with a fraction of the computation time. The model supports multi-material scenarios, fast prototyping, multi-gate configurations, and multiple process parameters.Starting Price: Free -
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Orca Slicer
Orca Slicer
Orca Slicer is a free, open source 3D printing slicer for FFF and FDM 3D printers, designed to turn 3D models into precise G-code with advanced calibration tools, intelligent print controls, and a user-friendly workflow. It gives makers a complete environment for preparing, tuning, previewing, and optimizing prints, with support for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Orca Slicer includes a comprehensive calibration suite for temperature towers, flow rate tuning, pressure advance, retraction tests, tolerance testing, maximum flow rate testing, and vertical fine artifact calibration, helping users fine-tune printers and filaments for better print quality. The slicer also offers precise wall and seam control, including outer wall spacing adjustments and scarf seams to improve accuracy and surface finish. It includes features for sandwich mode, polyholes, multi-plate workflows, printer setup, slicing settings, and detailed model preparation, giving users more control over how parts are printed.Starting Price: Free -
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LIGGGHTS
CFDEM
LIGGGHTS is an open source Discrete Element Method particle simulation tool for modeling particulate materials, with a focus on industrial granular and granular heat-transfer simulations. LIGGGHTS stands for “LAMMPS improved for general granular and granular heat transfer simulations,” and it builds on the LAMMPS molecular dynamics platform to extend DEM capabilities toward practical industrial applications. It can be used to simulate systems where material behavior emerges from the motion, collision, friction, cohesion, heat transfer, and interaction of individual particles. It is suitable for analyzing powders, grains, bulk solids, particulate flows, packed beds, conveying systems, mixing processes, hopper discharge, material handling, and other granular systems where particle-scale behavior matters. LIGGGHTS is currently used by research institutions and companies worldwide for the simulation of particulate materials, especially where open source flexibility.Starting Price: Free -
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LAMMPS
LAMMPS
LAMMPS, the Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator, is a classical molecular dynamics code with a focus on materials modeling. It models ensembles of particles in liquid, solid, or gaseous states and can simulate atomic, polymeric, biological, solid-state, granular, coarse-grained, mesoscopic, or macroscopic systems using many interatomic potentials, force fields, and boundary conditions. LAMMPS can model systems in two or three dimensions, from only a few particles up to billions, and is designed to run efficiently on parallel computers while remaining easy to extend and modify. It includes potentials for solid-state materials such as metals and semiconductors, soft matter such as biomolecules and polymers, and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generally, as a parallel particle simulator at atomic, meso, or continuum scale.Starting Price: Free -
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Yade
Yade
Yade is an extensible open source framework for discrete numerical models, focused on the Discrete Element Method. Its computation parts are written in C++ using a flexible object model that allows independent implementation of new algorithms and interfaces, while Python is used for rapid and concise scene construction, simulation control, postprocessing, and debugging. Yade is designed for researchers and engineers who need to create, run, inspect, modify, and extend particle-based simulations through scripts, interactive commands, graphical tools, and reusable simulation components. Simulations can be built from specialized generators or constructed directly with Python scripts, giving users flexibility for developing custom models, importing geometries, reusing code, and controlling the full simulation loop. It represents each simulation as a scene containing bodies, interactions, and resultant forces, with bodies defined by geometry, material properties, state variables, etc.Starting Price: Free -
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MercuryDPM
MercuryDPM
MercuryDPM is an open source code for discrete particle simulations, designed to simulate the motion of particles or atoms by applying forces and torques from external body forces, such as gravity or magnetic fields, and from particle interaction laws. For granular particles, these forces are typically contact forces, including elastic, plastic, viscous, and frictional interactions, while molecular simulations can use interaction potentials such as Lennard-Jones. MercuryDPM is written as a versatile, object-oriented C++ code and is built to be understandable, flexible, and extensible for researchers and engineers who need to create new simulation models. It is developed extensively for granular applications, while remaining adaptable to other particle-based systems and long-range interactions. Its documentation guides users through installation, running simulations, visualization, analysis, and creating new MercuryDPM codes to model systems of their choice.Starting Price: Free -
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MFiX
National Energy Technology Laboratory
MFiX, or Multiphase Flow with Interphase eXchanges, is an open source multiphase flow solver and NETL’s flagship suite of computational fluid dynamics tool for modeling reacting multiphase flows. It has become a standard for comparing, implementing, and evaluating multiphase flow constitutive models, and has been applied to a diverse range of multiphase flow devices and industrial systems. MFiX provides multiple modeling approaches, including a Two-Fluid Model, Discrete Element Model, Coarse-Grained Particle DEM, Superquadric Particle DEM, Glued-Sphere Particle DEM, Particle-in-Cell model, hybrid methods, and a single-phase solver for pure granular flows. These models can be used to simulate gasifiers, circulating fluidized bed combustors, fluidized beds, fluid catalytic crackers, chemical looping combustion systems, and other particle-fluid systems involving hydrodynamics, heat transfer, species transport, and chemical reactions.Starting Price: Free -
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GROMACS
GROMACS
GROMACS is a free and open source suite for high-performance molecular dynamics and output analysis. It is a versatile package for simulating the Newtonian equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles, with a strong focus on materials modeling, biomolecular simulation, and particle-based systems. GROMACS is primarily designed for biochemical molecules such as proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids, which involve many complicated bonded interactions, but its speed in calculating nonbonded interactions also makes it useful for non-biological systems such as polymers and other materials. It can model ensembles of particles in liquid, solid, or gaseous states and supports a wide range of molecular dynamics workflows, from basic energy minimization and equilibration to production simulations and detailed trajectory analysis.Starting Price: Free -
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NAMD
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. Based on Charm++ parallel objects, it scales from desktop and laptop computers to high-end parallel platforms, hundreds of cores for typical simulations, and beyond 500,000 cores for the largest simulations. NAMD is built for researchers who need to simulate large molecular systems efficiently while preserving compatibility with widely used molecular modeling workflows. It uses the popular molecular graphics program VMD for simulation setup and trajectory analysis, and it is file-compatible with AMBER, CHARMM, and X-PLOR. It is designed to support biomolecular simulations involving proteins, membranes, nucleic acids, solvents, ions, and other molecular systems where atomic interactions and time-dependent motion need to be studied in detail.Starting Price: Free -
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ESPResSo
ESPResSo
ESPResSo, the Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft Matter, is a highly versatile open source simulation package for performing and analyzing scientific molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo many-particle simulations. It is designed as a universal tool for simulating a variety of soft matter systems, especially coarse-grained atomistic or bead-spring models used in physics, chemistry, molecular biology, and process engineering. ESPResSo can be used to simulate polymers, liquid crystals, colloids, polyelectrolytes, ferrofluids, gels, biological systems, DNA, lipid membranes, bacterial motion, and super-capacitors. In coarse-grained models, a group of atoms or molecules is treated as a single bead, allowing researchers to investigate larger time and length scales than would be practical with fully atomistic simulations. ESPResSo supports classical molecular dynamics simulations in different statistical ensembles.Starting Price: Free -
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XFdtd
Remcom
XFdtd is a full-wave 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation software created by Remcom. This innovative and full-featured electromagnetic simulation solver provides high-performance computing options and simplifies the analysis of the most complex EM problems. XFdtd offers a wide range of applications that include microwave device design, antenna design and placement, radar and scattering, biomedical applications, automotive radar, waveguides, military and defense contracts, RFID, EMC/EMI, and more.Starting Price: $14750.00/one-time/user -
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ProCal
TMA Systems
ProCal by TMA Systems is an enterprise-grade calibration management software designed to replace paper-based processes with efficient, digital workflows. It helps organizations maintain precision, compliance, and consistency across calibration programs of any scale. ProCal automates calculations, applies tolerances, and instantly flags pass or fail results to minimize human error. The platform generates audit-ready records, certificates, and complete calibration histories to simplify inspections and regulatory reviews. Built for ISO, GMP, FDA, and 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, it supports secure access, electronic signatures, and approval controls. ProCal scales easily from single departments to global enterprises with multi-account and multi-language support. Trusted by leading manufacturers, it delivers a streamlined, paperless approach to calibration management. -
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FlexSim
FlexSim Software Products, Inc.
FlexSim is a problem solving tool that allows you to accurately answer any question about your business. It's powerful simulation software, built from the ground up to make simulation as easy as possible, without sacrificing an ounce of function or visual appeal. You can create beautiful, detailed models that deliver results yet make an impact in the way spreadsheets or charts never could, and you can do it all in just minutes with drag-and-drop controls and easy-to-use features. -
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C.A.L.M. Airline Suite
C.A.L.M. Systems
C.A.L.M. (Computerized Aircraft Log Manager) Systems, Inc. is a premier provider of aviation maintenance management software solution. The company's Airline Suite offers a robust set of modules, including Computerized Aircraft Reliability Tracking System (C.A.R.T.S) and Continuous Aircraft Surveillance (C.A.S), that ensure fleet readiness and enhance the aviation maintenance community's productivity, efficiency, and safety. Key features of the Airline Suite include electronic log books, flight log tracking, bulletin tracking, maintenance forecasting, budget forecasting, temples for common component lists, and more. This software monitors discrepancies and reports mechanical reliability and corrective actions or deferrals. It is integrated with work orders to create automatic MEL tasks to be completed with work orders to create automatic MEL tasks to be completed. Features and reports.Starting Price: $1000 per month -
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Hurricane for AutoCAD
74Mph Solutions
Batch edit your AutoCAD drawings in 3 clicks (or less), Make simple, complex and/or dynamic changes to each drawing. Manage your files to process. Keep lists, save "project" directories. Share these lists and "user-scripts". Combine user scripts to accomplish complex editing tasks. (You can even store scripts specific to each project, and retrieve them easily.) AutoCAD Electrical ".WDP" project file compatibility - Double-click an AutoCAD Electrical .WDP (Project) file within Hurricanes file selector, to quickly load an entire AutoCAD Electrical project into the FileQueue. This means you can EASILY use AutoCAD to Batch Plot your files, Batch Purge, Batch Bind, batch script anything, maximizing your PC's power to perform redundant tasks fast! Add more time-saving batch script functionality to AutoCAD Electrical, Mechanical, and Architectural. Batch all drawings run in a single AutoCAD session (They don't "open-run-close, open-run-close...")Starting Price: $99.95 one-time payment -
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cofaso 7
cofaso
cofaso is the leading high-end CAE solution for electrical engineering projecting tasks. Based on its special system technology with direct access to applicable logic for each schematic, the solution offers outstanding features for all industry-specific design and documentation requirements. As a parameter-controlled system, cofaso provides users with consistent structuring of their work process, while offering unrestricted flexibility for individual adaption to department -project- or workplace-specific requirements. cofaso has user interface in 13 world languages and supports all the common Windows versions. Auto connecting and online item designation/numbering enable you to create schematics quickly and correctly. Rapid viewing/generation of evaluation lists speeds up your work process. -
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Mech-Q
ASVIC
Are you looking for the best Engineering & Drafting CAD Software? Our solutions suit professionals like you that are involved in commercial, food & beverage, petrochemical, biotechnology, heavy industry, marine, mining, military, pharmaceutical, pulp & paper, energy generation or similar type of industry. If you require easy to use engineering software to get the job done right and quicly, then we have the solution you are looking for! We have software products for a wide range of engineering applications ranging from Mechanical software, Piping software, HVAC Ducting software and Structural Steel Detailing software. Each application is a set of powerful functions and utilities that makes your engineering design and drafting work easy and cost effective.Starting Price: $49 per user per month -
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RoomSketcher
RoomSketcher
RoomSketcher is a leading floor plan software that makes it easy to create, edit, and share accurate and high-quality floor plans. An easy-to-learn drag-and-drop interface enables you to draw plans from scratch or order existing plans to be drawn for you through RoomSketcher's redraw services. 2D and 3D plans can be customized with accurate measurements, annotations, and company branding. RoomSketcher is available on desktops and tablets, and can be used anywhere with an internet connection, as projects are stored in the cloud and sync across devices. RoomSketcher is used by thousands of real estate professionals, interior designers, and general contractors all over the world. Save time, win clients, and elevate your marketing with RoomSketcher's impressive and professional floor plan visuals. -
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PTC Windchill
PTC
PTC Windchill is a comprehensive product lifecycle management (PLM) platform designed to help manufacturers improve collaboration, data sharing, and quality control across global teams. It provides secure, role-based access to real-time product data, enabling streamlined product development and manufacturing processes. Windchill’s open architecture allows seamless integration with enterprise systems like SAP ERP, supporting a connected digital thread. The platform includes advanced features such as BOM management, engineering change control, manufacturing process management, and supply chain collaboration. Windchill leverages AI-driven insights and automation to enhance decision-making, reduce manual tasks, and accelerate innovation. Its flexible delivery options include on-premises and cloud deployment to fit diverse IT strategies. -
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Docollab
Docollab
Research makes the world better, you deserve better research tools. LIMS and ELN: collaboration, project management, tasks, documents and spreadsheets with revision history and 100% compliant and backed up across all devices. Today's researchers hack their research process using standalone programs, note-taking on OneNote pasted into MS Word and Excel, sharing files via Dropbox, project management tools like Asana, then printing everything into a binder for PI and company compliance. Since 2007 Docollab has worked with leading organizations and institutions, under stringent workflow and compliance requirements, to create the most intuitive and robust platform for all your research needs whether you're an individual, small research team or a multi-national corporation. Intuitive structure to manage, maintain, and archive everything in one place (Electronic Lab Notebook). Structure your work, projects and files into folders and sub-folders.Starting Price: $25 per month -
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Autodesk Advance Steel
GRAITEC
Advance Steel is a Dedicated Steel detailing package, the Software tool is a 3D modelling environment that then translates into a document management system. The 3D model consists of intelligent structural objects such as Beams, Plates, Bolts and Welds, with these combined together using the Parametric Connection tools that can be propagated within the model via connection copying tools, the model then becomes the hub for the creation of General Arrangements, Shop Assembly and Part drawings to allow for fabrication. These tools also extend into platework with ability to create complex folded plate details for flat pattern development drawings for shop use. Tools for creating steel frameworks from intelligent macros that allow for adjustments to the overall frame dimensions, section profile selection, this combined with the Parametric connection’s tools for standard connections types, with the ability to create custom connection details for bespoke situations. -
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HomeByMe
Dassault Systemes
Discover our offers to take benefit from the best of HomeByMe. One time pack or subscription? Choose the one that suits you best. Have only one floor (multi floor plans will need to be submitted one floor per order, every order is delivered as a unique project). Indicate all the measures on your floor plan (we need at least one measure to make sure your project is on the right scale). Choose the furnished or unfurnished project offer and then upload your floor plan. Within 3 working days, be notified by email of the delivery of your 3D project. Customize your interior by adding different coverings, furniture and decorative accessories by choosing them from our catalog. Your 3D project will include all the walls, doors and windows defined on your floor plan. In each room of the 3D project we will place a minimalist starter set of furniture and a different floor type to show our breadth and capability. (Accessories, decorations, multi-level floors or exteriors are not included).Starting Price: $14.74 per month -
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Floor Plan Mapper
Floor Plan Mapper
Floor Plan Mapper is an innovative software application designed to solve the simple problem of locating staff, printers, meeting rooms and whatever else you need to find within an office building. Floor Plan Mapper creates an interactive map of your floor plans from which you cans search for and find employees, visually book desks, locate meeting rooms, create office seating plans and much more. Floor Plan Mapper is available as a online hosted software as a service, or as an on-premise installation.Starting Price: $28 -
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Arctech Pro
Wildcard
Create inspection plans in seconds from your saved templates, edit them and add the design team to get you BCAR project up and running and submitted to the BCMS. Inspections and issues are logged against an element on the plan so you can easily see what elements have been inspected, and when and whether issues were raised. When the project is complete use the 'as inspected' feature to upload to BCMS. Using our BCAR app you can quickly and easily carry out inspections on site. Base your inspection on a floor plan on for a particular element to save time. As issues are found you can mark up images, make comments and take linked images. See previous issues that are still open and close them while you are on-site. Once finished images and data are synced back to the main server, to the contractor portal and the inspection report output is created.Starting Price: $75 per month -
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CAEplex
Seamplex
Just open a regular web browser such as Firefox or Chrome and search online for “caeplex.” It works in any operating system such as Windows, MacOS, GNU/Linux, iOS, Android, etc. The computations are performed on our servers so CAEplex works on any existing PC, laptop, tablet or phone without requiring any hardware update nor maintenance. No need to buy a new computer nor to add RAM to your oldie one. Our killer feature: “ease and speed.” A CAEplex case can be solved from scratch down to the results in less than one minute thanks to our 3-step workflow. If you know a faster FEA app, please let us know. CAEplex can be used from any mobile device such as a tablet or phones, no matter how old or wrecked. Access and show your work from any location at any time. Enjoy working in an agile development leveraging simulation (we rather say “modeling”), additive manufacturing, and mobile online collaboration.Starting Price: $25 per month -
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QuoteCAD™ Manufacturing is the smartest choice for small businesses that require the basic and integrated functions of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System. QuoteCAD™ Manufacturing provides out-of-the-box, base functions for business areas such as Manufacturing, Customer Relationship Management and Supplier Chain Management. Both economical, and user friendly, QuoteCAD™ Manufacturing has the lowest learning curve, and it does not require a high degree of customization as found in the majority of existing ERP solutions. Typical ERP implementation projects for enterprises can consumes months, requires a consulting team, and usually requires changes to existing business processes. QuoteCAD™ Manufacturing already fits the basic requirements for small businesses and requires minimal additional setup time.Starting Price: $749 one-time payment
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SNOK
SecureNok
SNOK™ is a cybersecurity monitoring and detection system tailored for industrial networks and control systems. SNOK™ detects targeted industrial attacks such as espionage, sabotage, malware, and other security interruptions in control systems. SNOK™ uniquely combines network and endpoint monitoring of components such as PLC’s, HMI’s, Servers etc. We are cybersecurity experts on industrial automation and control systems. Our skilled advisors and technicians help you secure critical infrastructure and production facilities, train your staff and implement secure practices. Hacking, malware and viruses have attacked IT systems for decades. Recently, cyberattacks has grown into a serious threat to critical industrial infrastructure as well. What has happened and how can infrastructure be protected? Assets in the Oil & Gas Industry are attractive targets for cyber-attacks with potentially severe consequences.Starting Price: $0.01
