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WinWedge
TAL Tech Inc.
WinWedge data collection software for balances, scales, meters, gages, sensors or any USB/RS232 output measuring device or lab instrument. The WinWedge Pro version also supports Ethernet-connected devices. WinWedge easily captures data directly into Excel, Access or any Windows application or web page. It can even send commands out to control your device through hot keys, buttons, or DDE. WinWedge can send the data directly into any Windows program or web form, including Excel, Access, LIMS, shipping software, medical databases and more. It is designed to be highly flexible and can easily parse, filter and format your device data to fit your project's requirements. Think of WinWedge as an easily customizable serial I/O device driver. It comes with free support and a lifetime license on the installed PC. Test the free trial version today. Eliminate tedious manual data entry. Create a custom data collection solution into your existing Windows or web applications TODAY!Starting Price: $399 one-time payment -
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VisualARQ
ASUNI
VisualARQ is a Flexible BIM solution powered by McNeel’s Rhinoceros 3D. VisualARQ enhances Rhino by adding powerful associative object styling and dynamic documentation tools which adapt to fit the professional’s workflow. VisualARQ allows you to with parametric architectural objects, produce 2D drawings from the 3D model, generate dynamic BIM objects driven by Grasshopper, automate many modeling tasks through the VisualARQ components built for Grasshopper, add custom data to geometry and list in schedules and finally deliver BIM models and collaborate with other tools through the IFC import/export capabilities.Starting Price: $95-795 one-time payment -
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FlytBase
FlytBase
FlytBase is an enterprise-grade drone autonomy platform to fully automate aerial data collection workflows. With little to no human intervention, users can conduct scheduled and repeatable BVLOS drone flights using docking stations, all controlled from their remote command centers. By enabling apps and integrations and ensuring the highest data security standards, reliability, and scalability, the FlytBase platform lets users seamlessly integrate autonomous drones into enterprise workflows.Starting Price: $0/user -
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Braceworks
Vectorworks
The Braceworks® add-on module for Vectorworks Spotlight provides design, production, and rigging professionals with an easy way to gauge the performance of temporary structures under load. This one-of-a-kind module helps ensure safety and compliance with engineering codes and standards, creating a completely integrated modeling, analysis, and documentation process in one interface. Regulatory requirements, such as the Eurocodes, and increasing requirements from venues, municipalities, and building owners, are making it necessary for event design, A/V, and rigging companies to produce load and structure calculations for sign off by structural engineers. Conduct static analyses and FEM analysis with results that display graphically on the model for easy reference. Automatically generate detailed calculation reports.Starting Price: $211 per month -
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VIKTOR
VIKTOR
VIKTOR is an AI-powered platform that enables engineers to automate workflows and build custom applications. It allows users to create tools for design, analysis, reporting, and data processing without extensive coding. The platform integrates with popular engineering software such as Autodesk, Bentley, and Trimble. Engineers can connect multiple tools into a single workflow, reducing manual work and errors. VIKTOR also supports collaboration by allowing teams to share apps with version control and governance. It helps turn complex engineering processes into efficient, repeatable systems. Overall, VIKTOR streamlines engineering tasks and boosts productivity through automation.Starting Price: $0/per month/user -
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PV*SOL
Valentin Software
PV*SOL premium is the professional software for 3D design and simulation of photovoltaic systems – including precise shading analysis. For more than 25 years, engineers, planners, and installers worldwide have relied on this industry standard to optimally design PV systems, reliably calculate yields, and create bankable reports. Whether for residential homes or commercial rooftops, for full or surplus feed-in, or in combination with battery storage, electric vehicles, and heat pumps – PV*SOL premium models every system configuration realistically and flexibly.Starting Price: 845,00 EUR -
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Cogent DataHub
Skkynet
There is a growing need to securely operate on and utilize industrial data in every industry vertical. Skkynet's Cogent DataHub provides a secure-by-design industrial data operations platform that connects to, provides inline protocol conversion for, aggregates, contextualizes, edge processes, integrates with AI models, visualizes and securely streams industrial data to where ever it is needed - in OT, IT, or the cloud. Powered by patented technology and supported by decades of industrial expertise, Skkynet’s proven software is trusted by over 2,200 customers across more than 30,000 installations in 86 countries.Starting Price: $495/month - unlimited data -
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Cable Pro Web
Electrotechnik
Cable Pro Web is a well-known cloud-based calculation solution for low voltage electrical design which complies with various international standards. The software is suitable for domestic, commercial, and industrial electrical installations. Cable Pro Web allows users to perform cable sizing and voltage drop calculations, maximum demand, voltage rise for solar, discrimination of protective devices, power factor correction, cable pulling tensions, arc flash, electrical networks calculations with transformers, generators, and switchboards, and more. Cable Pro Web helps electrical businesses to win more work and larger electrical projects. It also helps users to quote with accuracy and therefore to be more successful on their projects. Cable Pro Web saves you money and time, is quick to learn and easy to use, and there is excellent technical support included.Starting Price: $190/year/seat -
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RFEM
Dlubal Software
The FEA program RFEM allows for quick and easy modeling, structural and dynamic calculation, as well as the design of models with member, plate, wall, folded plate, shell, and solid elements. Due to the modular software concept, you can connect the main program RFEM with the corresponding add‑ons in order to meet your individual requirements. The structural analysis program RFEM provides structural engineers with a 3D FEA program that meets all requirements in modern civil engineering. Efficient data input and intuitive handling facilitate the modeling of simple and complex structures. The structural analysis program RFEM is the basis of a modular software system. The basic program RFEM is used to define structures, materials, and loads for planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells, and members. The program also allows you to create combined structures as well as model solid and contact elements.Starting Price: €697.50 rent 1 month -
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SafeGrid Earthing
Electrotechnik
SafeGrid Earthing Software is apt for earthing systems designs. The software performs accurate, finite elements based calculations. SafeGrid Earthing software is proven, affordable and easy to use. The software calculates grid resistance, touch and step voltages and lightning protection for substations. The software is helping industries for the last ten years. The software includes all the modules you need for performing a safe earthing system design in the safe grip. It includes: Fault current distribution. Soil modelling. Build grid. Safety criteria. Safe results. Along with the software, you get support from our earthing expert engineers. SafeGrid Earthing software that saves you time and money for your projects.Starting Price: $9,900 for a perpetual license -
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Avica Cloud
Avica Cloud
Avica Cloud is a cloud-based 3D photogrammetry platform. Users can convert massive drone image data into accurate 3D models with easy operation. Rapid modeling: users can upload aerial data at any time and model while shooting. Efficient cloud computing: extremely high data processing speed with 40,000 GPU servers. Aerial Triangulation: Fast and accurate triangulation processing. Support uploading GCPs, support viewing camera calibration, photo overlay, photo information, connection points and control points in the report. Security: TPN certified. Multi-tenancy technology and HTTP-based encryption. 365*7*24 quick response: professional technical support team Price: Pay as you go.Starting Price: $3.99 - $1.99 -
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Mapware
Mapware
Mapware is the future of drone mapping software. Generate bigger, better 3D maps in the cloud. With Mapware’s easy-to-use interface, anyone can turn 2D drone photos into photorealistic 3D environments using a process called photogrammetry. Powerful enough for the biggest challenges. Simple enough for any project. Whether you want to map one building, a dozen cell towers, a whole oil field, or even an entire city, Mapware is the best tool for the job. Our browser-based software is easy to access from any device.Starting Price: $99 -
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VariCAD
VariCAD
VariCAD is 3D / 2D CAD software primarily intended for mechanical engineering design. The comprehensive CAD software enables designers to quickly create, evaluate, and modify their models. The software is sold as one "fully loaded" package, with all features and functions, for one affordable price. VariCAD delivers an excellent performance-to-price ratio, making it one of the smartest choices on the market today. VariCAD is compact, fast, easy to use, and provides everything necessary for mechanical design. The system contains: 3D Modeling 2D Drawing and Editing Optional Support of Parameters Optional Support of Geometrical Constraints Shells Modeling, Pipelines, Wires Crash Tests (Interferences) 3D Assemblies and Groups Surface Development (Sheet Metal Unbending) Mechanical Part Libraries and Symbol Libraries Calculations of 3D Objects or 2D Sections BOM and Title BlocksStarting Price: 989 €/user -
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Optelos
Optelos
Optelos is a flexible, scalable and secure cloud-based visual data management and AI analytics platform that transforms visual asset inspection data into actionable insights. Our patented technology geolocates and correlates all types of unstructured data into an intuitive, contextualized and searchable database ready for analysis and AI implementation. Leveraging computer vision AI, advanced image modeling and APIs for enterprise systems integration, Optelos enables businesses to operationalize and automate their visual asset inspection programs.Starting Price: $1,000/month -
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Virto.CAD
Virto Solar
Virto.CAD is a powerful PV design plugin for AutoCAD and BricsCAD. It allows EPC, engineering firms and developers in the solar industry to crate detailed drawings and calculations for commercial rooftop and ground mounted projects. Virto.CAD is an all-in-one platform that optimizes your workflow and productivity. Using our software will save you more than 85% on engineering time and costs by automating module layouts, ballast calculations, bill of materials, irradiations simulations, yield simulations, string mapping, cable trays, trenches and routing management...Starting Price: 3.000$ - 4.500$ -
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ReluxCAD
RELUX Informatik AG
The ReluxCAD for Revit add-on enables lighting design in Revit. Enhance the quality of your specialist planning. Using the ReluxCAD for Revit add-on, the required number of luminaires in interior spaces can be determined in line with standards. Electrical designers are thus equipped with an easy-to-use and comprehensible simulation tool in their familiar working environment. A native interface to the ReluxDesktop application enables loss-free communication with lighting designers. As an electrical designer, you are responsible for ensuring that the positioning of luminaires in buildings complies with standards. On average, only 10% of installed luminaires are checked for compliance with lighting standards at present. Enhance the planning quality of lighting in buildings! This tool allows you to do just that. Clear display of complex products. Simulation of IEC 63180 passive infrared sensors. Interior & exterior measurement areas.Starting Price: CHF 479.- single licence/year -
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ReluxDesktop
RELUX Informatik AG
ReluxDesktop is a high-performance, intuitively-operated application for simulating artificial light and daylight. It provides you with rapid and efficient support on all the different aspects of big and small projects, without taking any unnecessary roundabout routes. Simulation of lighting and sensors in real-time! Calculation of absolute values, national and international standards, compatible with CAD and BIM systems, plus a great deal more. The application is available to you free of charge thanks to the support of our partners in the industry. Make ReluxDesktop your day-to-day tool, you'll be surprised how much time you save with it! Add-on for other programs. Useful functions for Autodesk Revit. Add-on for ReluxDesktop. Real tunnel calculation based on the current standards.Starting Price: free of charge -
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RWIND
Dlubal Software
The wind simulation program RWIND, like the other Dlubal Software programs, is easy to use and reliably provides the required result. If using RWIND, the wind will certainly not be taken out of the sails of your project. RWIND allows you to analyze wind flows (digital wind tunnel) around buildings or any other objects. For this, RWIND uses a CFD simulation (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and shows you how the wind flows affect the generated structures. Run a wind simulation for simple or complex structures – the result will always speak for itself. You can then simply import the wind loads calculated with RWIND into RFEM or RSTAB.Starting Price: €2,950 one-time payment -
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Process Engineering ToolS
Stratus Engineering
PETS® is an engineering software product with a collection of over 30 frequently used engineering calculations combined into one software product. PETS® software calculates Physical Properties, Hydraulic Analysis, Relief Calculations and Instrument Sizing. PETS® also calculates Equipment Sizing such as Pumps, Compressors, Tanks, Vessels, Spheres, Drums, Columns, Exchangers, Air Coolers and more. PETS® is used by Process, Chemical, Production, Mechanical, Instrument and other Engineers. PETS® is being used in Refineries, Chemical Plants, Utilities, Equipment Manufacturers and many other industries. PETS helps you design, analyze and troubleshoot your process. The graphical user interface makes PETS® easy to use increasing productivity and providing reliable results. Select a tool, there are over 30 ToolS, then begin entering the necessary data. The PETS® environment is interactive and calculations are performed and updated as required data is entered. Save or print the data.Starting Price: $44.99/month/user -
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Plex-Earth
Plex-Earth
In 2009, our founder and CEO Lambros Kaliakatsos, a civil engineer and software developer, saw firsthand how much rework designing without real-world data costs. So he built Plex-Earth: the first cloud-based SaaS tool in the CAD market, connecting AutoCAD directly to Google Earth. It became the original AutoCAD + Google Earth plugin, and it changed how engineers work every day. Today, Plex-Earth brings satellite and historical imagery, terrain, and two-way KML functionality into your drawing. From basemap providers like Google Maps, Google Elevations, Azure, and OpenStreetMap, and custom WMS/WMTS map connections, to premium providers such as Nearmap, Vexcel, Hexagon, Airbus, and Vantor, plus terrain data from GeoTIFFs and premium DTM/DSM sources, Plex-Earth is trusted by thousands of engineers across civil, solar, telecom, infrastructure, and beyond to design faster, smarter, and with real-world accuracy. Compatible with AutoCAD 2020–2027, Civil 3D, Map 3D & BricsCAD.Starting Price: $590 per year -
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MyArchitectAI
MyArchitectAI
MyArchitectAI is an AI-powered rendering tool that enables architects and interior designers to produce photorealistic images in under 10 seconds directly from their browser, eliminating the need for installations or expensive hardware. Compatible with major CAD and 3D modeling software, it supports JPG and PNG uploads, preserving the original geometry, colors, and materials of designs. Users can customize renders by describing desired outcomes or selecting from over 80 predefined architectural styles, materials, and landscapes. The AI engine manages modeling, lighting, and texturing, delivering 4K resolution images ready for client presentations or further editing. Additionally, the style transfer feature allows experimentation with various design aesthetics by blending reference images with original designs while maintaining the initial geometry. This accelerates the conceptualization process, aiding clients in comprehending design visions early on.Starting Price: $29/month -
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Cableizer
Braavos GmbH
Cableizer is a software package for the electrical, mechanical, and thermal design of cable systems. Cableizer is completely web-based: it's inexpensive, widely available, easily customizable, has improved interoperability, and is easier to install and maintain than a desktop application. Properties * Software-based design of cables up to 500 kV! * Cable calculations including mass, heat of combustion, CO2, price, etc. * Calculations of rated current and cable pulls * Environmental calculations including magnetic fields and increase in ground temperature * Web-based without installation or dongle, but with automatic updates * Collaborate with share links directly with customerStarting Price: 333 EUR/month -
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RealityMAX
Atomic Pixels
The 3D design collaboration platform to boost your design workflows. Invite your teammates to collaborate in real-time, build, compose and present in a whole new way. Start building 3D projects together, faster. Stop struggling with different desktop design software and tools at every stage of the process, sending massive files back and forth, and wasting endless hours exporting assets. RealityMAX technology makes all this a thing of the past. Create scenes with multiple 3D models. All major 3D file formats are supported. Share the same 3D workspace, at the same time, working remotely. Get your content out in the world as Web 3D or AR experiences, or insert it on your web page. Invite people to your virtual 3D workspace with just one link. Bring your teammates together from anywhere using the same collaboration software. See changes and updates as they are made, from any device.Starting Price: $40/mo -
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4Reality
4Reality Studio
4Reality is a versatile real-time rendering software designed to deliver photorealistic visualizations and simulations. It supports CAD and 3D model imports, offering advanced features like Lumen and Pathtracing technologies, dynamic sky simulation, and real-time VFX. Equipped with libraries of materials and models, 4Reality streamlines design processes for professionals in architecture, engineering, and product design. The software supports real-time DEM and CFD simulations, VR headset compatibility, point cloud imports, and advanced material creation. Additional tools include dynamic scene control, saved camera views, interactive annotations, and rendering without resolution limits. Available in French and English, 4Reality transforms 3D models into lifelike experiences.Starting Price: Free -
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PoligonSoft
PoligonSoft
Professional tools for modeling and optimizing metal casting processes with the ability to predict the formation of defects in cast parts. - Filling Dynamics - Macro and Microporosity - Residual Stresses - Deformations and Warping - Cracks (Hot and Cold) - Hydrostatic Pressure - Mold Wear - Slag Formation PoligonSoft provides reliable simulations that prevent waste and costly redesigns, allowing manufacturers to "get it right" the first time. The core of PoligonSoft includes three calculation systems: hydrodynamic, thermal, and stress. Along with a set of additional options, it allows the simulation of all traditional casting technologies and many special processes. At PoligonSoft, all stages of the casting production process can be sequentially simulated: mold heating, mold filling with molten mass, solidification on the bench or in the thermostat, extraction of the cast part from the mold, cutting of the feeding system and risers, etc.Starting Price: $14,137 USD/year -
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Avoyd
enkisoftware
Avoyd Voxel Editor and Renderer Create, import, export and render large voxel worlds. 3D art and rendering tool for voxel artists, map builders and game developers. Main Features: - Large scenes up to 256k voxels a side. - CPU and GPU path traced rendering. - Export to optimised mesh glTF and OBJ with physically-based materials parameters, and VOX. - Import MagicaVoxel VOX, Minecraft maps, heightmaps, palettes. - Orthographic projection with Isometric presets. - Up to 65k physically based materials. - Physically based light and atmosphereStarting Price: €15 one-time payment -
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RSECTION
Dlubal Software
Do you often spend too long calculating cross-sections? Dlubal Software and the RSECTION stand-alone program facilitate your work by determining section properties of various cross-sections and performing a subsequent stress analysis. With the stand-alone program RSECTION, Dlubal Software provides you with a time-saving solution for the calculation of thin-walled and massive cross-sections. The program determines the section properties and performs a stress analysis. The seamless integration with the FEA software RFEM and the structural frame & truss analysis software RSTAB allows for efficient cooperation. RSECTION cross-sections are available in the RFEM and RSTAB libraries, and you can easily import the internal forces in the programs.Starting Price: €292.50 rent 1 month -
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RSTAB
Dlubal Software
RSTAB is a powerful analysis and design software for 3D beam, frame, or truss structure calculations, reflecting the current state of the art and helping structural engineers meet requirements in modern civil engineering. Use the successful structural frame & truss analysis software RSTAB for your design of beam, frame, or truss structures consisting of steel, reinforced concrete, timber, aluminum, or other materials. With RSTAB, you can easily and quickly define a structural model and then calculate the internal forces, deformations, and support reactions. There are design add-ons at your side that you can use to consider the material- and standard-specific requirements.Starting Price: €487.50 rent 1 month -
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KUKA.Sim
KUKA
KUKA.Sim is an intelligent simulation software designed for efficient offline programming of KUKA robots, enabling users to optimize system and robot operations outside the production environment swiftly and effortlessly. The software facilitates the creation of digital twins, providing an identical representation of subsequent production processes. This 3D simulation encompasses the entire planning process, from process design and visualization of material flows to identifying bottlenecks and generating PLC code. KUKA.Sim ensures 100% data consistency, allowing both virtual and real controllers to operate with identical data, thereby laying the groundwork for virtual commissioning. This approach enables pre-testing and optimization of new production lines, offering significant time savings by allowing rapid and individualized planning of system and robot concepts without the necessity of physical construction.Starting Price: Free -
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Pipe Flow Calculations
Application Services LLC
Fast & Accurate Fluid Flow Calculations. Pipe Flow Calculator is essential for engineers, students, and professionals working with fluid dynamics. With 18 desktop calculators, it solves simple and complex fluid flow problems in under a minute—GUARANTEED. Why Choose Pipe Flow Calculator? ✅ Easy to Use – Just enter values and get instant results. ✅ Trusted Worldwide – Used daily by thousands of professionals. ✅ Reliable & Updated – Bug fixes within 1-2 days. ✅ Transparent Calculations – All formulas are provided. Key Features ✔️ Switch between metric and imperial units. ✔️ Select pipes, materials, and fluids from predefined lists. ✔️ Export results to Excel & Word, save, print, and continue where you left off. ✔️ Copy/paste full calculation reports. Available Calculators 🔹 Pressure Drop, Pipe Diameter, Pump Performance, Reynolds Number 🔹 Orifice Plate, Venturi Tube, Nozzle, Prandtl Probe 🔹 Control Valve, Gas Flow, LPG, Thermal EnergyStarting Price: $9.95/month
