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Alchemite

Intellegens

Alchemite provides AI-augmented physical modeling and solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from experimental and simulation data by combining machine learning with physics-informed models to improve prediction accuracy, reduce experimental costs, and optimize product and process development. Its solutions span materials discovery and design, predictive modelling of performance and reliability, multiscale modelling that connects atomistic to macroscopic behaviour, and automation of workflow tasks such as data integration, surrogate modelling, and model validation. It supports physics-aware neural networks and hybrid modelling approaches that respect underlying scientific laws while learning from data to enable faster and more accurate simulations, reduced reliance on expensive physical testing, and improved decision-making. Intellegens’ tools are applied in areas such as battery performance prediction, chemical process optimization, etc.

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Liveline

Liveline is a cloud-based 3D industrial layout and proposal design platform that lets sales, engineering, and manufacturing teams quickly build, visualize, and present detailed three-dimensional factory and production line layouts with a drag-and-drop interface that doesn’t require deep CAD expertise. It enables users to transform 2D plans into interactive 3D layouts, import CAD models, generate high-definition visualizations and videos, and collaborate in real time to refine solutions with clients or stakeholders, helping accelerate the quotation and approval process while improving clarity and engagement during sales discussions. Liveline also includes tools for creating compelling proposals that showcase machinery, conveyor systems, and production configurations in immersive 3D, facilitating faster decision-making, seamless handovers to engineering teams with comprehensive bills of materials, and higher proposal win rates.

Starting Price: $2400 per year

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BAESS Labs

BAESS Labs is an AI-powered solar design platform built to streamline the entire project development process. It enables users to generate Bills of Quantities, perform energy simulations, and create financial analyses in minutes. The Smart PV Designer offers visual module placement, shading analysis, and real-time optimization. Users can model ROI, IRR, and NPV while generating professional reports for client presentations. With global weather data integration, projects can be designed accurately anywhere in the world. The platform uses AI credits to power intelligent features while offering a free plan to get started. Designed for speed and efficiency, BAESS Labs helps solar professionals save significant time on system design and proposal creation.

Starting Price: $18/month/user

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CalcSteel

CalcSteel is a web-based structural steel design and analysis platform built to make professional engineering tools affordable and accessible. It features a full 3D browser editor that allows engineers to model structures directly online without downloads or installations. The platform includes a 6 DOF FEM solver and design verification according to major international standards such as AISC 360, Eurocode 3, NBR 8800, AS 4100, and IS 800. With over 640 steel profiles available, users can quickly assign sections and loads to their structural models. CalcSteel enables engineers to analyze, verify, and generate professional documentation and PDF drawings within minutes. Unlike traditional structural software that costs thousands per year, CalcSteel offers a free tier and paid plans starting at accessible monthly pricing. Designed for structural engineers, fabricators, firms, and students, it provides professional-grade tools without enterprise-level costs.

Starting Price: $9/month

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I After Sales

Components Engine

I After Sales (IAS) is a groundbreaking platform designed to transform the way businesses handle after-sales services. Focusing on innovation, simplicity and efficiency, IAS offers a comprehensive suite of tools that digitalize and streamline every facet of customer service. From creating interactive 2D and 3D spare parts catalogs to managing intuitive, customizable dashboards, IAS delivers advanced solutions that enhance both user experience and business productivity. Thanks to AI integration, the IAS platform unlocks powerful smart features: advanced chatbots for real-time user conversations, guided spare parts search, instant access to documents and orders, and customizable automated responses—all easily managed from the back office. Thanks to cloud technology, IAS ensures universal and secure data access, while supporting scalable and flexible business processes.

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vPlan AR

ValidPixel LLC

vPlan AR is a LiDAR-powered floor planning platform designed for contractors, restoration teams, inspectors, estimators, architects, and property professionals. Using LiDAR-enabled iPhones and iPads, users can quickly scan rooms and buildings to generate accurate floor plans without manual measurements or traditional surveying workflows. The platform combines mobile room scanning with a browser-based floor plan editor that allows users to refine layouts, manage multi-room and multi-floor projects, add architectural elements, and export professional documentation. vPlan AI also includes AI-powered tools that help analyze floor plans, calculate dimensions and square footage, answer questions about layouts, and streamline documentation workflows. Key Features: LiDAR-powered room and building scanning Automatic wall and dimension detection Browser-based floor plan editor Multi-room and multi-floor project support AI-powered floor plan assistant PDF, DXF, XML, and 3D model

Starting Price: $19

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Thoa

Thoa.io

Thoa is a cloud bioinformatics platform that solves the six most expensive problems researchers face daily: environment and dependency conflicts, pipeline management, reproducibility, scaling compute, collaboration, and data sharing. Run Nextflow and Snakemake workflows on managed cloud infrastructure (up to 12TB RAM) with zero DevOps setup. Thoa's AI-assisted debugger resolves environment issues in real time, so pipelines don't crash hours into execution. Every run automatically captures its full execution context: data, software versions, environment, and machine config. Share complete analyses with collaborators in one click. Recipients can view and re-run results without creating an account or mirroring infrastructure. Supports Docker, Conda, Singularity, Python, and R.

Starting Price: $35/user/month

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QuickArchViz

QuickArchViz is an AI-powered architectural visualization platform that turns CAD screenshots, 3D model captures, sketches, and interior references into client-ready concept visuals. Built for architects, interior designers, real estate teams, property developers, visualization studios, and architecture students, QuickArchViz helps users create exterior renders, interior visualizations, architectural sketches, material studies, and walkthrough-style visual assets without a traditional rendering pipeline. Users can upload rough visual inputs, choose a use case or visual style, and generate polished architectural imagery directly in the browser. QuickArchViz is designed for fast concept development, design iteration, client presentations, and early-stage visual exploration.

Starting Price: $20/month

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VCLAVIS

VCLAVIS is innovative web-based software for pressure vessel and heat exchanger design, developed by a team of experienced engineers. Designed to revolutionize the industry, it provides a totally new web based platform that enhances accessibility, efficiency, and compliance in pressure vessel engineering.

Starting Price: $250

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Simcenter EDEM

Siemens

Simcenter EDEM is a high-performance Discrete Element Method tool for bulk material and particle simulation, designed to give engineers crucial insight into how granular materials interact with handling equipment across a range of operating and process conditions. It accurately simulates and analyzes the behavior of coal, ores, soils, fibers, grains, tablets, powders, rocks, crops, and other real-world materials. Users can get started quickly with extensive pre-calibrated material model libraries representing rocks, ores, soils, and powders, while validated physics models support dry, sticky, compressible, and more complex material behaviors. Simcenter EDEM can simulate complex, industry-scale particle systems involving many millions of particles with fast and scalable compute performance across CPU, GPU, and multi-GPU solvers.

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PFC (Particle Flow Code)

ITASCA Consulting

PFC, or Particle Flow Code, is a general-purpose distinct-element modeling framework available as two- and three-dimensional programs, PFC2D and PFC3D. It is designed to simulate synthetic granular and solid materials as assemblies of variably sized rigid particles, including disks, spheres, rigidly connected clumps, and convex polygons or polyhedra. It provides an efficient and flexible way to model the motion, interaction, breakage, flow, deformation, and failure of particle systems across geomechanics, mining, civil engineering, materials processing, and industrial design. PFC is especially useful for problems where the behavior of a material emerges from particle-level contacts, bonding, friction, rearrangement, fracture, or flow rather than from a continuous mesh. Users can represent bonded materials such as rock, concrete, or cemented soil, as well as loose granular materials such as sand, gravel, ballast, ore, powders, and grains.

Starting Price: $9,588 one-time payment

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Bulk Flow Analyst

Overland Conveyor Company

Bulk Flow Analyst is a Discrete Element Method simulation tool designed to help engineers analyze and optimize bulk material flow throughout transfer chutes and conveyor systems. Developed and used by engineers with direct expertise in transfer chute design, the software is built to make DEM simulation intuitive and practical so users can focus on chute performance instead of managing complex DEM parameters. Bulk Flow Analyst can simulate transfer problems involving bulk materials moving through chutes, hoppers, feeders, conveyor transfer points, belts, and related material-handling equipment. It helps designers visualize and evaluate how particles flow, impact, accumulate, discharge, and interact with geometry under different operating conditions. Through DEM, it supports analysis of difficult conveyor design challenges such as flow requirements, chute plugging, belt wear, chute surface wear, dust generation, spillage, material degradation, and impact behavior.

Starting Price: $1,000 one-time payment

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Aspherix

DCS Computing

Aspherix is a state-of-the-art Discrete Element Method platform designed to simulate particle behavior in diverse systems and provide high-precision process modeling for industrial and research applications. It offers comprehensive DEM simulation tools for analyzing granular materials, powders, bulk solids, cohesive particles, polydisperse materials, and particle interactions across a wide range of environments and processes. Aspherix gives users strong control over simulation data, integrates information from multiple sources, and supports seamless analysis across varied formats, helping teams optimize operations and drive product innovation through data-driven simulation. With user-friendly dashboards and real-time analytics, the platform helps engineers move from complex particle behavior to fast, actionable insights.

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Aircraft Inspecti

AircraftInspecti is a mobile and web application built exclusively for independent aircraft technical representatives — the licensed engineers and consultants who carry out pre-purchase, delivery, redelivery, lease return, and C-check inspections on commercial and business aircraft. It eliminates the 4–8 hour administration burden after every physical inspection. After leaving the hangar: sorting handwritten notes, organising field photos, cross-referencing findings against ATA zones, and assembling a professional client report. AircraftInspecti handles all of this in the field. Core features: zone-based photo capture mapped to ATA 100 zones, auto-generated finding reports from field inputs, digital inspection checklists for pre-buy, delivery, redelivery, lease return and C-check inspections, client-ready PDF export, and an inspection history log per aircraft registration. Available on iOS, Android, and web. Built for the independent tech rep, not enterprise MRO.

Starting Price: $19 USD/month

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realvirtual.io

realvirtual GmbH

realvirtual.io is a Unity-based framework for industrial digital twins and virtual commissioning in machine and plant engineering. It imports the customer's own CAD (STEP, SolidWorks, CATIA, NX), lets you define kinematics (drives, sensors, grippers) without altering the original geometry, and connects real or simulated PLCs and robot controllers through 15+ native interfaces (Siemens S7, Beckhoff TwinCAT/ADS, OPC UA, MQTT, EtherNet/IP, Fanuc, KUKA, ABB) to one 3D model. It ships with full C# source code, so there is no black box and no vendor lock-in, and holds high-fidelity visuals at 60 fps while keeping cost far below legacy digital-factory tools. One model carries through sales, engineering, virtual commissioning, 3D HMI and operator training. A free Starter edition is on the Unity Asset Store; companion product realvirtual WEB (open source, Three.js) delivers the same model to any browser via one link.

Starting Price: $0

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Archi Topography

Archi

Archi Topography turns classified LiDAR ground data into Revit terrain in seconds. It converts LAS and LAZ point clouds into Toposolid or TopoSurface geometry, processing millions of points with adjustable density, coordinate offsets and multi-core optimization, faster than CAD contour tracing. It imports large LAS/LAZ point clouds with density control; isolates terrain from complex laser scans; uses multi-core processing for speed; places geometry aligned to Revit internal coordinates; and exports CSV datasets. Windows; Revit 2015-2027. Per-seat from about EUR 179/year. 14-day free trial.

Starting Price: $195 per user/year

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Avizo Software

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Scientific Avizo Software is a reliable and versatile solution for 3D visualization, analysis, and measurement of features of interest from imaging data, helping scientists and engineers convert multi-dimensional microscopy and CT images into actionable information. From advanced materials research to fully automated QA/QC workflows, Avizo Software enables users to discover deeper insights into materials and processes by turning complex image data into quantified parameters and meaningful understanding. It combines AI-driven image segmentation, image enhancement, denoising, and traditional analysis tools to accurately interpret and measure key sample features. Users can overlay and register multiple imaging and spectroscopy data types, regardless of format or resolution, then visualize results in multi-channel mode for correlative analysis.

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Prompt2CAD

Prompt2CAD turns plain-language descriptions into real, dimensioned CAD geometry in the browser. Users describe furniture, mechanical parts, product enclosures, prototypes, or other physical objects, then refine the generated parametric model with live controls and export production-friendly files including STEP, DXF, OBJ, STL, and GLB. Unlike generic AI 3D mesh tools, Prompt2CAD focuses on precise CAD-style geometry that can be edited, measured, and built.

Starting Price: Free to start

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Planpoint Viewer

Planpoint

Planpoint Viewer turns static floor plans into an interactive stacking plan prospects can explore in seconds. Embed it on any real estate website and let buyers and renters: • Browse available units at a glance • Filter by price and availability, updated in real time • Picture the space through images, 360° tours, and choice of finishes For developers, property owners, and marketing teams, that means fewer back-and-forth inquiries, faster decisions, and units that sell and rent quicker. No contracts, no complexity — just a plan viewer that does the selling for you.

Starting Price: $0

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DroneField

DroneSpot Kft.

DroneField is precision agriculture software that turns drone imagery into actionable field intelligence: high-resolution orthomosaic maps, NDVI crop analysis, and variable-rate spray plans ready for agricultural spray drones. It exports to DJI Agras, XAG, ABZ Innovation, and ISOBUS-compatible equipment (KML, Shapefile, ISOXML). Built for spray drone operators, agricultural service providers, and farms, it covers the complete workflow: plan the flight, process imagery, identify problem zones, and export precise treatment maps. Results can be shared with clients via a simple web link. DroneField runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and processes data locally — your field data stays under your control. Free trial with one complete project.

Starting Price: 699€/year

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DRVEN Parts™

DRVEN

DRVEN Parts™ helps OEMs turn complex engineering data into interactive 3D parts catalogs that make it faster and easier for dealers, technicians, and customers to identify and order the correct part. Unlike standalone catalog software, DRVEN Parts™ is built on a connected product data foundation. It brings together CAD, BoMs, service information, manuals, and legacy data so every catalog reflects the latest product configuration. Users can explore assemblies in 3D, zoom, rotate, isolate components, view exploded diagrams, search by part or product, and move directly from identification to enquiry or purchase. Catalogs can be published across dealer, distributor, technician, and customer portals, helping OEMs reduce ordering errors, shorten support calls, increase self-service, and capture more aftermarket revenue. As part of the DRVEN platform, Parts also connects seamlessly with interactive work instructions and operational product knowledge.

Starting Price: $1000/month

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Hammer Missions

Hammer Missions is an enterprise-grade AI drone inspection and mapping platform that helps teams capture, process, analyze, and share data for roofs, façades, bridges, parking structures, warehouses, and other assets. Its Hammer App creates automated flight plans tailored to each structure, with more than 15 mission types for façade inspections, roof surveys, 2D and 3D mapping, linear and tower surveys, and thermal or multispectral capture. Each mission is optimized for complete coverage, image quality, and consistent inspection-ready data. In Hammer Hub, users upload drone imagery and turn it into detailed 2D maps, 3D models, and digital twins that can be viewed, annotated, measured, and shared with teams or clients. AI analysis identifies and quantifies cracks, corrosion, spalling, surface deformation, vegetation, and custom deficiencies across building envelopes and infrastructure.

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Moonchild

Moonchild is an AI-native product design workspace that turns product requirements, briefs, and rough ideas into production-ready interface screens and interactive prototypes. Instead of starting from a blank canvas, teams can paste a PRD, generate multi-screen user flows, explore several design directions, and compare the rationale behind each approach. Its chat-powered infinite canvas supports rapid iteration, visual edits, UX problem solving, and AI-assisted critique for hierarchy, accessibility, and consistency. Moonchild can use an existing design system by importing components and tokens from Figma, GitHub, or live websites, helping generated screens follow established visual rules rather than producing generic UI. Designers can refine results and export them to Figma, while product managers can visualize requirements early enough to identify gaps before development.

Starting Price: $12.75 per month

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IronFlock

IronFlock is industrial middleware: it connects machines, PLCs, and sensors, and makes their data usable through apps, dashboards, and AI — live in days instead of months. Built-in AI assistant: ask about production data in plain language and generate dashboards from a single conversation. No-code SCADA, dashboards, and alarms. Ready-made apps from the App Store, or build your own — Docker, Git, cloud IDE, open standards, no lock-in. For machine builders (OEMs): built-in billing lets you sell apps to your customers and push updates across the fleet. Free to start on the cloud edition; unlimited projects, devices, and users. Runs in the cloud, on-premise, or on an appliance. Designed around EU Data Act, NIS2, ISO 27001, and IEC 62443. Built by IronFlock GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany.

Starting Price: $0

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Trace

Trace is an AI-native PCB design platform that takes hardware teams from idea to manufactured board. It combines professional schematic capture and PCB layout tools with intelligent agents that understand hardware in context. Users describe what they want to build in natural language, and Trace can research the problem, generate hierarchical multi-sheet schematics, parse datasheets, suggest components, check real-time availability, place parts, route multi-layer boards, tune matched-length signals, and run ERC, DRC, and design reviews. Its component library includes more than 30,000 symbols and footprints, with sourcing data from major distributors. Plan Mode researches complex tasks, asks clarifying questions, creates a step-by-step plan, and executes only after approval, while TraceRules preserves component preferences, layout constraints, and manufacturing targets across conversations.

Starting Price: $20 one-time payment

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FireFlow Studio for FDS

FireFlow Studios

FireFlow Studio for FDS is a fully integrated Windows GUI for NIST's Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), built by a practising fire safety engineer for fire engineering consultancies. It covers the complete workflow in one application: 3-D geometry modelling with DXF floor-plan tracing and automatic voxelisation of arcs and circles, multi-mesh setup with visible cells and MPI splitting, a guided fire-design wizard with a D* flame-resolution calculator, one-click runs of the bundled unmodified FDS solver with live monitoring of HRR and device outputs, and an integrated 3-D results viewer with slices, boundary quantities, smoke rendering, scenario-comparison tabs and CSV/PNG export. A built-in finite-element heat-transfer solver is live-coupled to the running FDS simulation, so structural steel temperatures develop alongside the fire with no external FEA package. Hand-written FDS decks round-trip.

Starting Price: $449.99 AUD one-time (perpetua

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Mango by Radix IoT

Radix IoT

Mango by Radix IoT is a vendor-agnostic IIoT and SCADA platform that connects to any device or manufacturer across 40+ protocols, unifying operational data into one real-time view. It polls data points and centralizes monitoring, control, and analytics for equipment, facilities, and global portfolios. Data centers, telecom, smart commercial properties, and energy enterprises on six continents run their critical infrastructure on Mango: one normalized, real-time data foundation, the layer AI requires for analytics, optimized operations, predictive maintenance, and workflow automation. Mango pairs with Radix IoT errProof, the first execution governance layer between systems of record and field teams. A Mango alarm triggers an errProof job plan: a technician follows a guided workflow, captures data at each step, and an audit trail auto-generates to verify resolution before closeout, closing the loop from detection to action.

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Access Workspace

Access Group

Access Workspace: With all Access products in one place, working seamlessly together, Access Workspace changes how you engage with your software. It will transform your organization’s productivity and give you the freedom to do more. Business software is often only used by specially trained people in the organization. The apps in Access Workspace let everybody self-serve and get the answers they need without bothering those expert users. Now everyone can report progress, get approvals, and dramatically reduce the admin of repetitive tasks. Collaboration, communication and turbo-charged team-working. Analytics dashboards as standard for every Access product. Immediate access to the right information lets productivity soar. Routine tasks made easy, so you can get on with the job. Access Workspace shows you what you need in real-time. Now you can plan in the moment, and for the future. This is software that doesn’t get in your way, it lets you get on with your day.

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PTC Model-Based Systems Engineering

PTC

A blast of brilliant, associated items is influencing the building to process more perplexing. This multifaceted nature implies more partners from numerous designing areas should be included. With these different areas comes a blend of dialects, devices, and databases. To bring together partners, associations are receiving model-based frameworks building (MBSE) systems as a major aspect of their application lifecycle exercises that offer a typical, visual dialect and organized designing methodology. Solutions from PTC provide a collaborative, visual approach for better communication, clarity, and maintainability of all product data. MBSE applies modeling, tools, and methods to improve your systems engineering programs and projects, spurring technological innovation and positively impacting costs and productivity. Quality and regulatory compliance is also improved as risks are discovered and mitigated sooner.

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WinAir

AV-Base Systems

Bring added value to your standard business processes with a reliable aviation maintenance and inventory software! As the most cost-efficient, easy-to-use, and structurally integrated maintenance and inventory control software system in the aviation industry, WinAir ties in every aspect of your operation to improve business efficiency and cut cost. This world-class aviation management solution helps streamline purchasing, production, inventory control, cost accounting, maintenance forecasting, and invoicing processes. WinAir also features bar coding, real-time labor management, and more.

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Best Engineering Software in China - Page 42

Compare the Top Engineering Software in China as of August 2026 - Page 42

Alchemite

Liveline

BAESS Labs

CalcSteel

I After Sales

vPlan AR

Thoa

QuickArchViz

VCLAVIS

Simcenter EDEM

PFC (Particle Flow Code)

Bulk Flow Analyst

Aspherix

Aircraft Inspecti

realvirtual.io

Archi Topography

Avizo Software

Prompt2CAD

Planpoint Viewer

DroneField

DRVEN Parts™

Hammer Missions

Moonchild

IronFlock

Trace

FireFlow Studio for FDS

Mango by Radix IoT

Access Workspace

PTC Model-Based Systems Engineering

WinAir

Best Engineering Software in China - Page 42

Compare the Top Engineering Software in China as of August 2026 - Page 42

Alchemite

Liveline

BAESS Labs

CalcSteel

I After Sales

vPlan AR

Thoa

QuickArchViz

VCLAVIS

Simcenter EDEM

PFC (Particle Flow Code)

Bulk Flow Analyst

Aspherix

Aircraft Inspecti

realvirtual.io

Archi Topography

Avizo Software

Prompt2CAD

Planpoint Viewer

DroneField

DRVEN Parts™

Hammer Missions

Moonchild

IronFlock

Trace

FireFlow Studio for FDS

Mango by Radix IoT

Access Workspace

PTC Model-Based Systems Engineering

WinAir

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